Woodstock: Three Days of Peace and Music The Road to Woodstock is the novel written by Michael Lang. Michael Lang was known as the man behind the legendary festival. Lang paints a vivid picture of how Woodstock changed America forever. It guides you through the hard work, dedication, passion and struggle needed to create the most powerful music and peace festival in the country's history. Michael Lang grew up in New York in the early 1950s. He came from a middle class family and had a passion for music. During his early adolescence he experimented with drugs such as marijuana and LSD. This was the time when LSD became popular, a way to explore your conscious mind. Lang was fascinated by hippies and their free spirit, went to many concerts and later called himself a hippie. After graduating from high school he moved to Miami and opened a tobacco shop. In Miami he met several men involved in the music industry. Eventually, he would orchestrate the famous Miami Pop Festival. When business slowed down, Michael moved to Woodstock, New York. After Lang moved to Woodstock, he thought the town needed a recording studio. He and his partner Artie Kornfeld planned to open a recording studio in the small town. Lang wanted to bring the music back, it had been years since any famous musician had played there. Their idea of ​​opening a music studio failed, so they decided to organize a three-day music festival. Along the way they met John Roberts and Joel Rosenmen who both became responsible for the festival's finances. These four men were the masterminds behind the festival. The organization of Woodstock did not always go as planned. Originally the festival was supposed to be held in Wallkill, but the citizens did not agree to see thousands of drug addicts and naked h...... middle of paper ...... these musicians put their breath into their texts -taking. It makes me angry and sad that music no longer affects humans as much as it used to. Lang explains in the prologue that when Jimi Hendrix arrived at Woodstock more than half a million people left. It was Jimi's last performance and around 40,000 stayed to see him play. He first started with his most popular songs, like Purple Haze and Voodoo Child, but slowly slipped into the Star Spangled Banner. Jimi managed to capture the emotional turmoil and confusion that young Americans were experiencing. Lang said that "his song takes us to the battlefield, where we hear the rockets and bombs exploding around us." Woodstock was a powerful rebuke to war, social injustice, and a wake-up call to fix the broken things in society. Three days America will never forget. Works Cited The Road To Woodstock by Michael Lang