22 minute video of Jimi Hendrix performing at the 1969 Newport Pop Festival. Excellent videon content of Jimi Hendrix, band, backups, and audience.
No longer personal site: Goes to google embedded video
Source picked by ccbelland 2 years ago

On August 15, 1969, a farmer named Max Yasgur addressed one of largest assemblies ever to gather when he addressed the crowd at the Woodstock Music and Arts Festival in the name of peace, love and music. Mr. Yasgur, now a cultural icon, allowed 40 acres of his 1,100 acre farm in upstate New York, to be used for Woodstock, thus making the musical and cultural event of the century possible. For ... read full post picked by tigertony 2 years ago

Ringo in a Turtleneck sweater. It's rehearsal footage that I'll bet you've never seen. picked by MeLip 1 year ago

Who doesn't love Sesame Street. Okay it isn't the same, it has probably changed too much, but it still has great memories for most of us. picked by 2manyusernames 2 years ago

"God is living in New York City and he's a Mets fan." - Hall of Famer Tom Seaver picked by suebe 3 years ago

Exactly forty years ago today – July 1, 1969 – a racist ex-convict and wanna-be folk singer in his 40s named Charles Manson shot a black drug dealer by the name of Bernard “Lotsapoppa” Crowe.
Throughout the summer of 1969, Charles Manson orchestrated the grisliest murder spree in Los Angeles history. picked by bornbad 5 months ago

The entire concert of Jimi Hendrix performing at the Woodstock festival in 1969.

All 56 minutes and 39 seconds of it.

Legendary to say the least. picked by latueofstiberty 3 years ago

Rumor started in November 1969. I have a "Paul Lives, WMCA Swings" button from 1969 - WMCA was THE local Beatles radio station. picked by suebe 2 years ago

July 20, 1969: Neil Armstrong makes his famous step onto the lunar surface, making the US 'win' the Space Race.

Or was it all a hoax? picked by TheStep 3 years ago

This post got that song into my head and so here it is. picked by Moe 2 years ago

The history of the "Amen Break," a six-second drum sample from the b-side of a chart-topping single from 1969. This sample was used extensively in early hiphop and sample-based music, and became the basis for drum-and-bass and jungle music -- a six-second clip that spawned several entire subcultures. picked by dOntEAtpOOp 1 year ago

live @ Jahrhunderthalle, Frankfurt, Germany
Apr 12, 1969 (her one and only show in Germany) picked by Bornbad 2 years ago

In 1969 the US department of defense invaded the island in order to use it as a test site for cutting edge developments in geomagnetism and genetic engineering. It was eventually hoped to try and work out a way to control the population of the world. The crash of flight 815 was caused by a swarm of remotely operated Dharma nanobots. The survivors of flight 815 are clones of the previous test subj... read full post picked by extc68 2 years ago

Excerpts from the first airing. picked by suebe 3 years ago

John Lennon did many brilliant things in his life, but arguably one of his most inspired acts was his deliberate destruction of the Beatles in 1969, just 40 years ago this month. It didn't seem that way then, but if Lennon hadn't done that, I doubt that you'd be reading this today. Lennon froze them for ever at their peak. picked by suebe 3 months ago

The Fairmont Queen Elizabeth Hotel and the city of Montreal have announced plans to commemorate John and Yoko's 1969 stay that ended with the release of the song "Give Peace a Chance". picked by kakana 8 months ago

The Woodstock Festival ended forty years ago today, on August 18, 1969* -- and roughly, um, two years later, Marvel Comics was there! picked by Bornbad 3 months ago

The afternoon of January 30, 1969 was when The Beatles surprised a central London office lunch crowd with an impromptu concert on the roof of their Savile Row Apple headquarters. More video in comments. And why a tribute rooftop concert was cancelled picked by suebe 10 months ago

I know it's been almost 40 years since The Flying Circus' debut on October 5, 1969, but these are some great BBC News articles about Monty Python and how it's stood the test of time. picked by cleopatrareborn 2 years ago

You’ve heard about how the US beat the Soviets to the moon in 1969. There was another lesser-known exploratory scoop in January of 1960, when Don Walsh and Jacques Piccard climbed aboard the Trieste, a deep sea bathysphere designed by Piccard’s father Auguste Piccard, and dived to the bottom of the Mariana Trench. It was the first time human beings traveled to the deepest part of the ... read full post picked by Bingo 4 months ago