2019 13 TM 50 Years Later INSIDE Take a trip back to 1969

Lots of peace and love were shared at Woodstock

1969 WAS THE YEAR my baseball heart was broken forever. My James Bond heart, however, was only cracked in 1969; and my childhood heart — well, some things you lose forever, only to fi nd them again in unexpected ways. I was a Cubs fan, and the 1969 baseball season promised fans north of downtown Chicago something they hadn’t seen since 1945: a pennant. It was a glorious season, Richard Nixon with my Cubbies out in fi rst place for took offi ce in the fi rst 155 days of the season. Billy 1969, vowing Williams and Ron Santo and Ernie to end the Banks were swinging for the fences, Vietnam War and Fergie Jenkins struck out just about everyone in Mudville. Watching Cubs games on TV was both an article of faith and superstitious ritual. (Oh, The Brady the things I did to keep from jinxing Bunch made its my team!) Then in September, the TV debut Cubs dropped 17 out of 25 games, ending the season eight games behind the Amazin’ New York Mets, who went on to beat the Baltimore Orioles in the World Series. Cubs fans knew the agony of defeat in 1969, and I was never able to follow baseball with much zeal again. But 1969 was so much more than just a sour note for Cubs fans! It was — shall I say it? — Groovy with a capital “G.” It was the year of the Bill Russell and Lew Alcindor (later Pontiac Firebird Trans Am and the Kareem Abdul-Jabbar) lent their last performance by the Beatles, support to Muhammad Ali after he the Woodstock Music Festival and rejected the draft humankind’s fi rst steps on the moon. Gas was 35 cents a gallon, much louder and a bass note more Come the eight-track players were becoming dangerous. Other late-’60s spookiness end of 1969, the popular, and you could see little kids drifted into our house with TV news roar of things bouncing around the neighborhood dispatches of the My Lai Massacre was getting on those Hoppity Hop infl atable investigation and Chappaquiddick even louder. The Smothers ride-a-balls. There was plenty to keep and the Tate-LaBianca mass murders The fi rst draft Brothers were too a boy like me enrapt with the likes by the Manson cult. lottery since radical for CBS of Goldie Hawn, Raquel Welch and 1969 was a great year for music, World War Claudia Jennings. The Brady Bunch with albums like Abbey Road by the II was held. launched on ABC, and the Not-Sean- Beatles, Tommy by The Who, and Black Panthers Fred Connery era of James Bonds began Crosby, Stills & Nash’s fi rst album Hampton and Mark with George Lazenby, making the playing in its entirety on new, album- Clark were shot ’60s feel like they were ending both oriented FM stations. America was dead in a raid, and the animated shaken and stirred. still the land of transistor radios, and Rankin/Bass Christmas special Richard Nixon became our AM stations beamed memorable Frosty the Snowman premiered 37th president, promising to bring singles into cars and beaches with on CBS. The day after the Rolling an end to the Vietnam War, focusing songs like “Get Back,” “Aquarius/ Stones released Let It Bleed, on crime and other domestic issues Let the Sunshine In,” “Touch Me” they headlined at the Altamont while seeing four appointments and “Sugar, Sugar.” In addition to Speedway Free Festival, a to the Supreme Court. Following Woodstock, there was the Atlanta concert marred by such violence unfruitful peace talks with the North International Pop Festival and the Isle that some wondered if the Vietnamese, Nixon looked for ways of Wight Festival. Music had become fl owering of Woodstock came to an to withdraw American forces while an enormous cultural force; there was end to the strains of “Sympathy for shoring up South Vietnam against no way you could escape it. the Devil.” My parents separated, and attack; he approved the secret 1969 was the year of other by the end of the school year, my bombing of North Vietnamese forces important cultural icons like Nerf mother and siblings had moved in Cambodia and Laos. Meanwhile balls and glue sticks, the Manwich, to Florida. Certainly you felt anti-war protests continued to grow Munchos, Borkum Riff (my father’s an era coming to an end. across the country, culminating in a favorite pipe tobacco) and Funyuns What would follow? Nov. 15 peace rally in Washington that onion corn snacks. It was the year For me, it was drew half a million mostly peaceful of the Boeing 747 jumbo jet, the all about what protesters. development of the fi rst laser printer, would soon I remember the well-publicized and ARPANET, or Advanced Research blossom trial of the Chicago Eight that Projects Agency Network, the into the September, those anti-war protesters internet’s technological grandfather. ’70s. charged under anti-riot provisions And what movies! Butch Cassidy Since of the Civil Rights Act of 1968 after and the Sundance Kid; The Wild I was the bloody Democratic Convention Bunch; Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice; born at of that year. (Eight police offi cers Hello, Dolly!; I Am Curious (Yellow); the height were also indicted.) It was a grand and Midnight Cowboy, the fi rst and of the baby spectacle, with the local underground only X-rated fi lm to win an Academy boom, 1969 also marked the end of press having a fi eld day with graphic Award for Best Picture. These were my childhood. Play me “My Cherie illustrations of Judge Julius Hoffman not the innocent Disney and Frankie- Amour” while I dial that big black facing off with the likes of Abbie Annette beach movies I remember rotary phone, making that terrifi ed Hoffman and Jerry Rubin. (Some of from the early ’60s. Hollywood had call that would result in my fi rst date the Eight were convicted, but all of the become its own revolutionary, pitting ever. judgments eventually were reversed.) Hello, Dolly! against Easy Rider. It Some of those big news events was getting harder to tell where the seemed pretty distant from my middle was anymore, the place an 12-year-old vantage. To me, fi nding insecure kid like me wished for when a girlfriend was a far weightier thing planning his fi rst date. (And that than the possibility of Muhammad Ali James Bond movie without Sean going to jail for resisting the draft. That Connery, On Her Majesty’s Secret David Cohea, said, the wild abandon of Woodstock Service, turned out far better than I ReMIND Editor made my approaching puberty could have imagined.) [email protected]

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ruled it was not obscene, the fi lm was an event, championed by the likes of author Norman Mailer and joked about by Johnny Carson on The Tonight Show. MOVIE DEBUTS AND t Midnigh BREAKTHROUGHS Cowboy Goldie Hawn, the breakout star on Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In, won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for another of the year’s biggest hits, the romantic comedy Cactus Flower. Al Pacino made his big-screen debut in the Patty Duke drama Me, Natalie. Underground fi lmmaker Robert Downey Sr. (Iron Man’s dad) had his only mainstream success with the subversive Madison Avenue satire Putney Swope about a black man inadvertently put in charge of an advertising agency. The mockumentary Take the Money and Run marked standup comedian Woody Allen’s breakout as a writer, director and star. BUMMERS The blockbuster musical just was not made for these times. Hello, Dolly!, Paint Your Wagon and Sweet Charity were enormous fi nancial disappointments. Change of Habit, in which Elvis Presley stars for America,” the tagline read. “And as a guitar-slinging doctor in the ghetto couldn’t fi nd it anywhere ...” who falls in love with Mary Tyler Moore’s The growing freedom of the screen also character, not knowing she is a nun, was the could be seen in Paul Mazursky’s R-rated King’s last fi lm. satirical comedy Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice WORTH ANOTHER LOOK about two couples whose marriages and On Her Majesty’s Secret Service, the friendship are put to the test in the free-love sixth in the James Bond franchise, was era. It was also one of the year’s top 10 box much-maligned upon its release. Pity offi ce hits. George Lazenby, the model who replaced THE CONTROVERSIES Sean Connery as Agent 007. He is the 1967’s Bonnie and Clyde and The only one-and-done actor to portray Bond. Graduate seem tame after two of 1969’s Today, Secret Service is championed by most hotly debated fi lms — Sam Peckinpah’s discriminating Bond fans as among the most The Wild Bunch and the Swedish import I faithful to Ian Fleming’s books. It also has the Am Curious (Yellow). A line from Bunch’s franchise’s Best. Bond. Girl. Ever. That’s Diana opening sequence, “If they move, kill ’em,” Rigg as Tracy, the only Mrs. Bond. By Donald Liebenson set the stage for carnage the likes of which Medium Cool, directed by had never been seen onscreen. Curious, cinematographer Haskell Wexler, was a still- GET YOUR MOTOR Grit was in the Old Hollywood tradition about a young woman’s sexual and political relevant look at the media fi lmed against the RUNNIN’ with screen icon John Wayne in his Oscar- awakening, contains acts not suitable to backdrop of the 1968 Democratic National We’re going to party like it’s 1969, a winning role as hard-drinking, overweight discuss in a family magazine. Convention in Chicago (at one point, during movie year in which Old Hollywood and Marshal Rooster Cogburn. Butch Cassidy But that’s why many adults went to the actual riot, an off-camera voice can be the so-called New Hollywood were on a and the Sundance Kid, 1969’s biggest box foreign fi lms in the 1960s. They played heard warning, “Look out, Haskell, it’s real!” collision course that ushered in a golden offi ce hit, was on the side of the outlaw, with in mainstream theaters, were made by when a tear gas canister explodes). Once era of personal, director-driven American Paul Newman and Robert Redford as a pair respected directors and earned critical raves. Upon a Time in the West, featuring Henry fi lms. The revolution that began in 1967 of charismatic, wisecracking fugitives. And they were sexually liberated in a way Fonda in a rare villainous role, is considered, with fi lms such as Bonnie and Clyde and Easy Rider, in which Peter Fonda and American fi lms were not. Going to a foreign in its uncut version, as Sergio Leone’s masterpiece and an infl uence on the likes of The Graduate gained further momentum Dennis Hopper star as two drug dealers fi lm was akin to saying you read Playboy Martin Scorsese and Quentin Tarantino. in 1969 with the emergence of the “Born whose big score fuels a motorcycle for the articles. Curious was seized by U.S. to Be Wild” generation bent on further odyssey to New Orleans’ Mardi Gras customs and was banned in several cities. festival, was perhaps the year’s most pushing the envelope. Think of New By the time the U.S. Court of Appeals game-changing fi lm. “A man went looking Hollywood’s defi ant attitude like the classic scene in that year’s Best Picture Hello, winner, the X-rated Midnight Cowboy, The Wild Dolly! when Dustin Hoffman’s grubby hustler Bunch Ratso Rizzo crosses the street without looking and slams the hood of an oncoming cab, yelling, “I’m walkin’ here! I’m walkin’ here!” OLD HOLLYWOOD VS. Take the NEW HOLLYWOOD Money Hollywood’s generational shift is and Run

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Joe Cocker’s famous performance of the Beatles’ “With a Little Help From My Friends”

By Karl J. Paloucek From Tommy James and the Shondells’ “Crimson and Clover” fi nally ousting Marvin Gaye’s seven- week run on the top of the charts to Creedence Clearwater Revival having one of their best years with fi ve songs in the Top 40 — including “Proud Mary” and “Bad Moon Rising” — to Diana Ross & the Supremes closing the year with “Someday We’ll Be Together,” 1969 will forever be remembered for its iconic hits but, more so, for letting the sunshine in and igniting the spirit of a new generation of hipsters. Let’s look at some of the cultural signposts of 1969 …

The Woodstock Music & Art but word of this not-to-be-missed bright moment of hope, and those Fair — billed as “3 Days of Peace & event reached far and wide, and who were there would forever be Music” — was the most important by Friday evening ticketing gates touched by its magic. musical event of the decade with couldn’t handle the crowds, and Yasgur summed it up best the biggest lineup of musicians the festival gates were thrown when he came onstage on Sunday ever to appear at one concert. open as a free event, eventually saying: “I’m a farmer. I don’t know From Aug. 15-18, 1969, New York admitting over 400,000 young how to speak to 20 people at one dairy farmer Max Yasgur allowed people from across the country to time, let alone a crowd like this. his 600-acre plot of land to be its rain-soaked pastures. But I think you people have proven turned into the site for what would Good intentions carried far something to the world. … This is be the apex of the countercultural at Woodstock, and for many in the largest group of people ever revolution of the ’60s. The festival attendance, it was an unforgettable assembled in one place. … We had boasted a now-legendary lineup and life-changing experience. no idea there would be this size that included Jimi Hendrix, Janis In spite of torrential rains, the group. … The important thing that Joplin, Creedence Clearwater mud and the notorious brown you have proven to the world is Revival, The Who, the Grateful acid, the weekend lodged itself in that a half a million kids can get Dead, Jefferson Airplane, Joe the public consciousness as the together and have three days of Cocker and Crosby, Stills, Nash zenith of the youth movement — a fun and music, and have nothing & Young, among many others. symbol of what ideals, music and but fun and music and may God Nearly 200,000 tickets were sold, young people could do. It was a bless you for it.” Woodstock: Fotos International/Getty Images; Bill Eppridge/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images; Beatles: United Artists/Via MovieStillsDB Fotos International/Getty Images; Bill Eppridge/The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Beatles: United Artists/Via Woodstock: 2019 15 TM

Time Capsule

The Fifth Dimension 1969 COST OF LIVING $Median yearly income (all families) $9,433 Minimum wage (per hour) $1.60 Median cost of a new home $25,600 Postage stamp $0.06 Gas (gallon) $0.35 Ford Mustang (new) $3,175 Sugar (5-lb. bag) $0.29 Frigidaire refrigerator $209 Hershey bar (1.5 oz.) $0.10 Campbell’s tomato soup (10.75-oz. can) $0.10 Gold (ounce) $41.09

1 The Archies – Sugar, Sugar 66 Sonny Charles and the Checkmates, Ltd. – 2 The Fifth Dimension – Aquarius/ Black Pearl Let the Sunshine In 67 1910 Fruitgum Company – Indian Giver 3 The Temptations – I Can’t Get Next to You DID YOU 68 James Brown – Mother Popcorn (Part I) 4 The Rolling Stones – Honky Tonk Women KNOW? 69 Edwin Starr – Twenty-Five Miles TOP 5 Sly and the Family Stone – The Archies were the fi rst virtual 70 New Colony Six – Things I’d Like to Say NEWS Everyday People band to ever have a No. 1 hit in 71 Motherlode – When I Die June 28 – A police raid on the 6 Tommy Roe – Dizzy the Billboard Top 100 72 Marvin Gaye – That’s the Way Love Is Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in 7 Sly and the Family Stone – 73 Nilsson – Everybody’s Talkin’ Greenwich Village, sparks a riot Hot Fun in the Summertime 74 Brooklyn Bridge – Worst That Could Happen 8 Tom Jones – I’ll Never Fall in Love Again 36 Smokey Robinson and the Miracles – that lasts fi ve days and serves as a Baby, Baby Don’t Cry 75 Joe Simon – Chokin’ Kind 9 The Foundations – Build Me Up Buttercup catalyst for the national LGBT rights 37 Jerry Butler – Only the Strong Survive 76 The Flying Machine – Smile a Little Smile movement. 10 Tommy James and the Shondells – for Me 38 Elvis Presley – In the Ghetto Crimson and Clover 77 Tony Joe White – Polk Salad Annie July 18 – After 39 The Zombies – Time of the Season 11 Three Dog Night – One 78 Kenny Rogers & the First Edition – driving his car 40 The Fifth Dimension – Wedding Bell Blues 12 Tommy James and the Shondells – Ruby, Don’t Take Your Love to Town off a one-lane 41 Bobby Sherman – Little Woman 79 Joe South – Games People Play bridge on 42 Mercy – Love (Can Make You Happy) 13 The Cowsills – Hair 80 The Turtles – You Showed Me Chappaquiddick 43 Oliver – Good Morning Starshine 14 Marvin Gaye – Too Busy Thinking 81 The Cuff Links – Tracy Island, Sen. Ted About My Baby 44 The Guess Who – These Eyes 82 The Dells – Oh, What a Night Kennedy swims 15 Henry Mancini and His Orchestra – Love 45 Blood, Sweat & Tears – 83 The Beatles – Something to safety while his passenger, Theme From Romeo and Juliet You’ve Made Me So Very Happy 84 Gary Puckett & the Union Gap – Mary Jo Kopechne, drowns. He 16 The Youngbloods – Get Together 46 Jackie DeShannon – This Girl Is a Woman Now does not report the accident to 17 The Friends of Distinction – Grazin’ in Put a Little Love in Your Heart 85 The Beatles – Come Together authorities for 10 hours. the Grass 47 Charles Wright and the Watts 103rd Street 86 Marvin Gaye – I Heard It Through 18 Elvis Presley – Suspicious Minds Rhythm Band – Do Your Thing Aug. 8-9 – Charles Manson’s the Grapevine 19 Creedence Clearwater Revival – Proud Mary 48 The Grass Roots – I’d Wait a Million Years followers murder pregnant actress 87 Bob Seger System – Ramblin’ Gamblin’ Man 20 Jr. Walker and the All Stars – What Does It 49 The Doors – Touch Me Sharon Tate and four others in the 88 Diana Ross & the Supremes & the Temptations Take (To Win Your Love) 50 Spiral Starecase – home Tate shares with her husband, – I’m Gonna Make You Love Me 21 The Isley Brothers – It’s Your Thing More Today Than Yesterday director Roman Polanski. 89 Crazy Elephant – Gimme Gimme 51 Sammy Davis Jr. – I’ve Gotta Be Me 22 Neil Diamond – Sweet Caroline Good Lovin’ Nov. 15 – Half a million activists 52 Bob Dylan – Lay Lady Lay 23 Oliver – Jean 90 Booker T. & the MG’s – Hang ‘Em High march on Washington, D.C., as part 53 Donovan – Atlantis 24 Creedence Clearwater Revival – 91 Lou Rawls – Your Good Thing of the National Vietnam Moratorium. Bad Moon Rising 54 Dennis Yost and the Classics IV – Traces (Is About to End) It remains the largest antiwar 25 The Beatles – Get Back 55 Mama Cass Elliot – It’s Getting Better 92 The Originals – Baby I’m for Real demonstration in U.S. history. 26 Zager and Evans – 56 Jay and the Americans – This Magic Moment 93 Edwin Hawkins Singers – Oh Happy Day 27 Blood, Sweat & Tears – Spinning Wheel 57 The Temptations – Run Away Child, 94 Tom Jones – Love Me Tonight Running Wild 28 Andy Kim – Baby, I Love You 95 Paul Revere & the Raiders – 29 The Friends of Distinction – 58 The Ventures – Hawaii Five-O Mr. Sun, Mr. Moon 59 Glen Campbell – Galveston POPULAR Toys Going in Circles 96 The Guess Who – Laughing  Baby 30 The Lettermen – Hurt So Bad 60 Lou Christie – I’m Gonna Make You Mine 97 David Ruffi n – My Whole World Ended Know-It-All 31 Creedence Clearwater Revival – 61 Ray Stevens – Gitarzan (The Moment You Left Me)  Hot Wheels Green River 62 Tyrone Davis – Can I Change My Mind 98 The Box Tops – Soul Deep  Matchbox 32 Stevie Wonder – My Cherie Amour 63 Booker T. & the MG’s – Time Is Tight 99 B.J. Thomas – Hooked on a Feeling Cars  33 Three Dog Night – Easy to Be Hard 64 Dionne Warwick – This Girl’s in Love 100 The Box Tops – Sweet Cream Ladies Ant farms 34 Smith – Baby It’s You With You Paul Revere & the Raiders featuring  Easy-Bake 35 Johnny Cash – A Boy Named Sue 65 The Winstons – Color Him Father Mark Lindsay – Let Me Oven  Don’t Break the Ice  Betsy Wetsy doll  Electric football game BILLBOARD Hits “Sugar, Sugar” – The Archies “Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In” – The Fifth Dimension “I Can’t Get Next to You” – The Temptations “Honky Tonk Women” – The Rolling Stones “Everyday People” – Sly & the Family Stone “Dizzy” – Tommy Roe “Crimson and Clover” – Tommy The Beatles James and the perform Richard Shondells unannounced “I’ll Never Fall in on the rooftop of Nixon Love Again” – Tom their company’s Sworn into the offi ce of the Jones headquarters in presidency in 1969, Richard “Build Me Up Buttercup” January 1969 Nixon successfully campaigned – The Foundations for re-election in 1972, winning by one of the largest landslide ® victories ever. He was dogged, OSCAR For many, the songs of John, Paul, George 909” and “Dig a Pony.” Later in the year, however, by revelations by The * and Ringo are the indisputable soundtrack of while recording what would be the group’s Washington Post that he and his WINNERS the ’60s. The world had never seen anything fi nal proper studio album, Abbey Road, on White House staff had engaged Best Picture – Midnight Cowboy like the public and media furor created by Aug. 20, 1969, the four Beatles entered the in illegal attempts to sabotage the Fab Four, and when the group made an studio for what would be their last recording Best Actor the Democrats. In all, 48 offi cials – John Wayne – True Grit unannounced live appearance on the rooftop session all together. In less than a month, were convicted of wrongdoing, Best Actress of their London Apple Corps headquarters the group would assemble at Apple Studios and when it became clear that – Maggie Smith – The on Jan. 30, 1969, most fans didn’t realize it for a tumultuous meeting, and on Sept. 20, a he was facing impeachment for *Awarded in 1970 for movies would be their fi nal public performance. The discussion about the future of the group took the cover-up, Nixon announced released in 1969 42-minute rooftop concert consisted of a mix a dark turn when Lennon allegedly declared, his resignation on Aug. 9, of takes for the songs that would appear in “I want a divorce” and “The group’s over, 1974. Instead of admitting any the movie Let It Be — “Get Back,” “Don’t Let I’m leaving.” The Beatles would never come wrongdoing, Nixon said that he Me Down,” “I’ve Got a Feeling,” “One After together again. POPULAR CARS lacked the legislative support  Chevrolet  Pontiac Firebird to continue. The next day he Chevelle  Chevrolet walked down the South Lawn  Dodge Charger Impala with wife Pat and a military  Pontiac GTO  Oldsmobile guard, and began boarding the  Oldsmobile 442 Cutlass In the same way that saying “Woodstock” conjures up images of peace and love, saying presidential helicopter. At the  Chevrolet  Plymouth Camaro Barracuda “Altamont” immediately brings up quite the reverse. A number of the same acts who appeared last moment he turned to fl ash  Mercury at Woodstock just months before were on the bill at Altamont Speedway Free Festival in the victory salute with both Cougar Northern California on Dec. 6, 1969, but it was the Rolling Stones for whom this event would hands, and then began the trip become infamously synonymous. Legend has it that the Hells Angels had been brought on home to San Clemente, Calif., as security for $500 worth of beer — though offi cial accounts dispute this. What is clear is that where he started life as an during the song “Under My Thumb,” an unruly crowd situation and poor security measures ordinary citizen. resulted in the stabbing death of 18-year-old Meredith Hunter. Footage of the incident was

inadvertently captured in the concert fi lm Gimme Shelter, and the entire Altamont Speedway Richard Nixon: Credit: Jack Kightlinger/Getty Images All In the Family: Credit CBS Free Festival quickly earned the reputation as having sounded the death knell of the hippie era.