The 1970 song Melanie wrote about her experience at Woodstock

The 1970 song Melanie wrote about her experience at Woodstock

A sprawling three-day celebration of music, peace and love, Woodstock is often remembered as the defining gathering of the 1960s counterculture, attended by hundreds of thousands of people collectively dreaming of something better. Yet for all of its mythology, the festival was actually overwhelmingly male, with only Melanie and Joan Baez appearing as solo female acts, and for the former, 22 years old, the experience would prove to be far more p…