Woodstock Organizer Michael Lang Has Died At Age 77

Michael Lang, Brooklyn native and co-creator of the legendary 1969 Woodstock festival, died in Manhattan on Saturday night at the age of 77.

Michael Lang, Brooklyn native and co-creator of the legendary 1969 Woodstock festival, died on Saturday night at the age of 77., Lang was at Memorial Sloan Kettering Hospital in Manhattan at the time of his death, which is attributed to complications from non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma.

While Lang produced other notable events, like the 1968 Miami Pop Festival featuring Jimi Hendrix and Frank Zappa, he is best known for the Woodstock concert on Max Yasgur’s upstate farm in Bethel, New York.

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