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Woodstock '99 music festival opens w/ photos....
Woodstock '99 music festival opens w/ photos....
Item # 722814
July 24, 1999
DAILY NEWS, New York City, July 24, 1999
* Woodstock '99 music festival in Rome, New York
The front page has a headline: "WE'RE ROCKIN'" with "250,000 jam opening day at Woodstock" within a related photo. And pages 4 & 5 has a heading: "Woodstock '99 turns on heat" with four more related photos. (see images)
Complete with 40 pages, tabloid size, great condition.
AI notes: Woodstock ’99 opened on July 23, 1999, at the former Griffiss Air Force Base in Rome, New York. Conceived as a 30th-anniversary tribute to the original 1969 festival, it began on a Friday afternoon and ran through Sunday night, July 25. The opening day featured major acts such as Korn, Bush, and The Chemical Brothers, setting the tone for a massive, commercially driven event that ultimately drew more than 400,000 attendees. While it started as a celebration of music and nostalgia, Woodstock ’99 became infamous for its extreme heat, high prices, inadequate facilities, and escalating disorder—culminating in riots, fires, and widespread property damage by the festival’s end, overshadowing its opening optimism and permanently altering the Woodstock legacy.
Category: The 20th Century
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