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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
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Matt Charlton

Woodstock was a pivotal moment in history – how much hippy spirit is left in upstate New York?

Matt Charlton

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There are many misconceptions about the 1969 Woodstock festival, but for something as safely installed into popular culture myth as this, a little fallacy and legend is sometimes a good thing. After all, if you can remember the Sixties, you weren’t really there, man.

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