400,000+ people, mud, music, and myth: how Woodstock 1969 became rock’s defining weekend and a blueprint for festivals ever since.
Browsing: 1960s
Elvis got his Hollywood Walk of Fame star in 1960 while still in uniform. Here is what really happened, why the date is disputed, and why it matters.
Before the stadium anthems, Scorpions were a nameless teen beat band in 1965 West Germany, plotting to swap tanks for guitars and rewrite their country’s image.
A grainy Glasgow backstage photo caught Joan Baez and the Rolling Stones colliding at full speed. Here’s why that tiny moment says so much about the 1960s.
Janis Joplin turned self destruction into a career move. Behind “10 years of superhypermost” was a haunted young woman the press barely understood.