The first one that comes to mind. A song, a moment, a band. Type it in, or pick one of these.
Every square is one minute of music played on the Woodstock stage, from Richie Havens at 5pm Friday to Jimi Hendrix on Monday morning. That's 1,733 minutes, about 29 hours, not counting the announcements, set changes and rain delays.
…this is what you've heard. Michael Wadleigh's 1970 film carried minutes of music actually recorded on that stage: .
The 1970 triple album and 1971's Woodstock Two filled in more. Together with the film, the public could hear about of Woodstock by 1971.
That's after removing the ringers. Arlo Guthrie's "Coming Into Los Angeles" on the album was recorded months later at a club in L.A., and the film reportedly used it too. Two CSNY songs on the album came from a Fillmore East show.
Everything still grey: hours of music that stayed on tape for decades.
of the 32 acts had nothing released at all by 1971, among them .
The obvious suspect: half of Woodstock happened at night, so maybe the cameras just couldn't see it. The numbers say no. Night music made the film as often as daytime music.
Share of minutes that reached the 1970 film. Night = sunset to sunrise in Bethel, N.Y.
Box sets in 1994 and 2009 dug more out. It took until 2019, fifty years on, for a 38-CD archive to release (almost) everything.
Share of the 1,733 minutes publicly available by each year. Three songs are still unreleased.
Next in the full story: why was it left out? Four suspects: artists and managers, money and labels, the editors' cut, technical chaos. Most cases are unsolved.
This prototype covers the opening: the quiz, the reveal and the bookend. The full piece would run the suspects as case files between steps 5 and 6: Keef Hartley's manager demanding $2,000 in cash, Quill's footage losing sync, the Grateful Dead's electrified stage, Janis nowhere until 1994.
Method: "heard" means released as a genuine Woodstock stage recording on the 1970 or 1971 albums, or in the 1970 theatrical film. Shares are minutes of taped music, from the 2019 Back to the Garden 38-CD tracklist. Film and album shares use full song lengths, but the film often shows excerpts, so the real figures are lower. Excluded from the film count: a CSN studio track over the opening, Arlo's club-gig audio, and two clips with no stage footage and uncertain audio. Night-time estimates use derived clock times. All figures are draft and need verification.