The Band at Central Park
Nick Tosches, New Haven Rock Press, Fall 1970
ON THE night of June 29, The Band played to the biggest crowd in the four-year history of the now-traditional Central Park Summer Beer Festival (for the last two years it's been the Schaefer Music Festival; before that it was the Rheingold Music Festival).
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