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- In 2019, Mr. Lang attempted to revive Woodstock for a 50th-anniversary concert in Watkins Glen, N.Y., that would feature Jay-Z, Miley Cyrus, the Killers, Chance the Rapper, Santana and Imagine Dragons. But the event collapsed amid a legal battle with its financial backer, an arm of the Japanese advertising conglomerate Dentsu.
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Michael Lang, famed co-creator of the Woodstock music festival, died Saturday, CNN has learned. He was 77 years old. Lang died from “a rare form of non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma at Sloan Kettering...
Jan 11, 2022 · Michael Lang, a Force Behind the Woodstock Festival, Dies at 77 - The New York Times. He and his partners hoped their weekend of “peace and music” would draw 50,000 attendees. It ended up drawing...
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Jan 9, 2022 · Michael Lang, the co-creator and organizer of Woodstock, has died following a battle with cancer, according to a family spokesperson. He was 77. Lang had been diagnosed with a rare form of...
Jan 9, 2022 · January 9, 2022. Michael Lang, the concert impresario who helped conceive the landmark, generation-defining 1969 music festival Woodstock, died Saturday night at Sloan Kettering hospital in New...
Jan 11, 2022 · NEW YORK (AP) — Michael Lang, a co-creator and promoter of the 1969 Woodstock music festival that served as a touchstone for generations of music fans, has died. Michael Pagnotta, a spokesperson for Lang’s family, said Sunday the 77-year-old had been battling non-Hodgkin lymphoma and passed away Saturday at New York’s Memorial Sloan ...
Jan 9, 2022 · Michael Lang, an organizer of the iconic 1969 Woodstock Music and Art Fair music festival, has died. He was 77. Lang's death was confirmed by a representative, Maureen O’Connor, who said he...
Jan 9, 2022 · Michael Lang, Woodstock. Michael Lang, who co-created the Woodstock festival in 1969 and mounted controversial anniversary fests in 1994 and '99, has died at age 77.