Michael Lang was 24 when he helped create the 1960s' ultimate music festival.
A native of Brooklyn, New York, Lang dropped out of New York University before heading to the Miami area to organize music events, according to. That included the 1968 Miami Pop Festival, which featured Jimi Hendrix, Frank Zappa and John Lee Hooker.
Lang, then 24, moved to Woodstock, where he worked with Artie Kornfeld and partners Joel Rosenman and John Roberts to plan the music festival, which took place from Aug. 15-18, 1969, the website reported. The festival starred Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Jefferson Airplane, Creedence Clearwater Revival, the Grateful Dead, the Who, Carlos Santana, Sly and the Family Stone, Joe Cocker and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young.as scores of fans left their cars stranded and found other means to reach the festival grounds, Variety reported.