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Woodstock

Chris Salewicz, MOJO, July 1994

WOOSTOCK BEGAN ON A GOLF course. Three years before they were to be responsible for Governor John Rockefeller declaring the Woodstock Festival area "a state of emergency", John Roberts met Joe Rosenman playing golf in affluent Huntingdon, Long Island. "We were essentially what was known as ‘straight’," Rosenman now reflects. "I came upon him on the green, adjusting his life".

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