It was her appearance at the Woodstock festival in upstate New York in August 1969 that helped propel Melanie Safka to stardom. Performing as Melanie, she had already released two albums, which had not created much of a stir, other than giving her a chart-topping single in France with Bobo’s Party, but Woodstock allowed her to catch the wind of countercultural change sweeping the US.
“I had never performed in front of so many people in my life,” she told Rolling Stone. “I was just thrown into it, and I had my first out-of-body experience.”
