Today marks the 50th anniversary of the start of the most famous rock festival in history -- the Woodstock Music and Art Fair.

PLAYBACK: Mark Beaumont asks if the legendary hippie music festival was really a ‘blueprint for a new society’ or as ‘shambolic, profit-driven and violence-marred’ as the attempt to do it ...

“Woodstock: From World War to Culture Wars” by Richard Heppner shows how the community adapted to change brought about by artists and hippies who moved in.

History as you’ve never seen it: albums, artists’ births, rumours and more: discover with us what happened this week in music ...

Almost everywhere he looked in 1969, Hoffman saw the “rip-off’ of hippie culture and African-American culture, too. That’s why he demanded reparations.

Julie Muhlstein Woodstock here? Not if county leaders in 1969 had their way Hippies flocked to Sultan for Sky River Rock Festival in ’68. Today, big events come with regulations. by Julie ...

May 23 -- The Grateful Dead are gone, the original Woodstock is ancient history, but the hippie movement just keeps truckin' on. In one corner of New York's Central Park last weekend, it looked ...

It was a year after the assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert Kennedy. To those who were at Woodstock, it was more than just hippie kids who came to hear some great music.

It was the first time I had seen the counterculture targeted as consumers. CBS News Woodstock marked the moment when Madison Avenue recognized hippie culture as a marketing platform.

Sri Swami Satchidananda, a yoga master from India, opened the festival with an address urging compassion, a moment seen as embodying the non-violent culture Woodstock aimed to represent.

When the organizers of Woodstock's 50th anniversary festival put the rock band Hollis Brown on the lineup, lead singer Mike Montali was elated. "It's such an iconic and legendary thing, man ...