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December 10th, 1969: Four people died over the weekend at The Altamont Speedway Free Festival
Here's the story of Altamont in quotes from many of the people involved.
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August 30th, 1969: 10 great moments from last weekend's Woodstock Music & Arts Fair
Last weekend saw half a million people descend upon Bethel, NY for a music festival. Here are some highlights.
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August 29th, 1969: "We want Morrison": The Doors at Seattle Pop Festival last month
"Something has happened to the Doors. Ray Manzarek knows it, several thousand people who attended the Seattle Pop Festival know, and probably so does Jim Morrison."
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November 6th, 1967: Finally, some new music from Bob Dylan!
After a year of silence, some new music from the Dylan camp has emerged.
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January 17th, 1967: Jimi Hendrix talks The Beatles, meeting Bob Dylan and recording his debut album
The following interview with Jimi Hendrix was conducted by Steve Barker in January 1967 - 50 Years Ago this year.
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April 28th, 1966: "I've been up all night, I've taken some pills." - Bob Dylan Interview in Stockholm
April 28th, 1966 - Bob Dylan arrived in Stockholm, Sweden for the first show of his European tour. Dylan met with journalist Klas Burling in a Stockholm hotel room.
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April 22nd, 1966: In April 1966 a group of South Australian journalists tried to interview Bob Dylan, listen here.
April 22nd, 1966 - While on tour in Australia, Bob Dylan sat down for a press conference with a room of journalists in Adelaide. Listen to the audio of the press conference at the bottom of this
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January 27th, 1966: Listen to Bob Dylan take calls from listeners on Radio Unnameable, 50 Years Ago today
It was sometime after midnight in the early hours of January 26, 1966 when I fell asleep, as I usually did on week nights: listening to a show on New York’s WBAI FM called Radio Unnameable.
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December 22nd, 1965: Morrison meets Manzarek, starts The Doors
July 8, 1965 – Raymond Daniel Manzarek Jr. was meditating on LA’s Venice Beach when a guy he’d known at film school approached and said hi. The guy was 22 year old college dropout, James Douglas
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December 10th, 1965: The Bizarre And Tragic Death of Soul Icon Sam Cooke
By the time he reached the age of 33, Sam Cooke had established himself as a towering figure in the music industry.
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December 9th, 1965: What Really Happened When Dylan Played The Les Crane Show
We try to be as accurate as possible with our articles at Gaslight Records, but given the events we cover occurred at least 20 years before most of our writers were born, it can sometimes prove
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December 6th, 1965: 10 Highlights from Dylan's San Francisco Press Conference
In case you didn't have the time to sit through the entire hour of Bob Dylan's San Fransisco Press Conference on December 3rd