The Nottingham-born musician rose to fame after appearing at the Woodstock festival in 1969.
The Woodstock Festival, held outside New York in August 1969, featured legendary performances from Jimi Hendrix and The Who.
His performance at the three-day 1969 Woodstock Festival, where headliners included Jimi Hendrix, was a turning point in his career.
Hendrix is also about to hit cinemas around the world, with his set from the 1969 Woodstock festival released later this month.
Mr. MYERS: Canned Heat boogied the world over including an appearance at the original Woodstock Festival in 1969 where they played what else?
We're businesspeople, and we thought that buying the original site of the 1969 Woodstock festival would be an opportunity to perhaps contribute to the economic welfare and development of the area that I grew up in.
He has become a musician of international renown without ever experiencing what can be classified a hit: While "Alice's Restaurant" and "Coming Into Los Angeles" were immensely popular among crowds at the 1969 Woodstock and Newport Folk Festival, they didn't gain much radio airplay.
Havens returned to Woodstock for the 40th anniversary festival in 2009.
He played at Woodstock and the 1967 Monterey Pop festival, and also collaborated with violinist Yehudi Menuhin and jazz saxophonist John Coltrane.
He first established himself in Europe, then won more fans after his famous performances at the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967 and Woodstock in 1969.
The Monterey International Pop Festival, which preceded Woodstock by two years, brought together a diverse group of big-name acts including the Mamas and the Papas and Jefferson Airplane as well as some then-unknown performers, notably Janis Joplin and Jimi Hendrix.
Though it's frequently portrayed as this crazy, unbridled festival of rain-soaked, stoned hippies dancing in the mud, Woodstock was obviously much more than that -- or we wouldn't still be talking about it in 2009.
The premise of the Horizon festival is gathering car enthusiasts and a few dozen bands for the racing equivalent of Woodstock.
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