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Big names and broken souls: storm clouds gather over Woodstock’s summer of love

Barney Hoskyns describes how Bob Dylan’s ‘greatest place’ in the early Sixties soon became one big chaotic nightmare

26 March 2016

9:00 AM

26 March 2016

9:00 AM

Small Town Talk: Bob Dylan, The Band, Van Morrison, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix & Friends in Woodstock Barney Hoskyns

Faber, pp.496, £20, ISBN: 9780571309757

In 1963, when the bloom was still on the rose, Bob Dylan described Woodstock as a place where ‘we stop the clouds, turn time back and inside out, make the sun turn on and off… the greatest place’. Six years later, he wrote in Chronicles: Volume One, ‘Woodstock had turned into a nightmare, a place of chaos.

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