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A: It was by invitation only and The Rolling Stones were not invited to attend. According to Woodstock: an encyclopedia of the music and art fair (pp145-6), the Rolling Stones weren't invited for two main reasons: One, the high performance fee they were getting was more than the Woodstock organizers wanted to pay. Two, the Stones' big hit at the time was "Street Fightin Man" and there was concern that their material might damage the "peace, love & understanding" nature of the concert.
The following groups were invited but canceled:
♪ Jeff Beck Group (the band broke up in July, forcing cancellation)
♪ Iron Butterfly (stuck at the airport, their manager demanded helicopters and special arrangements just for them. Were wired back and told, as impolitely as Western Union would allow, "to get lost.")
♪ Joni Mitchell (Joni's agent put her on The Dick Cavett Show instead)
The following groups declined to attend:
♪ The Beatles (John Lennon said he couldn't get them together)
♪ Led Zeppelin (got a higher paying gig elsewhere)
♪ Bob Dylan (turned it down because of his disgust with the hippies hanging around his house) ... More
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Wednesday, May 20, 2009
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Life magazine once called Joe Cocker "the voice of all those blind criers and crazy beggars and maimed men who summon up a strength we'll never know to bawl out their souls in the streets." The gravelly-voiced rocker is one of the few musicians who performed in both the original Woodstock in 1969 and the 25th anniversary Woodstock reunion in 1994. In performance, Cocker is known to make jumpy movements; the late comedian John Belushi capitalized on that with a wildly successful spoof on Saturday Night Live in the '70s. Happy birthday to Joe Cocker, who turns 65 today.
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"I'm just a fat bald guy, 60 years old, singing the blues, you know?" — Joe Cocker
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- First Council of Nicaea: opened in present-day Turkey; it dealt with the relationship of Jesus to God the Father, and the date of Easter, among other issues (325)
- Cheers: the final episode of the TV sitcom was seen by 93 million viewers (1993)
- East Timor: became an independent nation and the first new sovereign state of the 21st century (2002)
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- Dolley Madison (1768-1849): 4th American First Lady; she saved government valuables when the British set fire to the White House in 1814
- Honoré de Balzac (1799-1859): novelist, wrote La comédie humaine
- John Stuart Mill (1806-1873): utilitarian philosopher and economist who wrote On Liberty
- Sadaharu Oh (69): first-baseman in the Japanese baseball league who hit a career record 868 home runs, making him the international champion
- Bronson Pinchot (50): Balki Bartokomous in Perfect Strangers; also, actors James Stewart (1908-1997), Anthony Zerbe (73), Tony Goldwyn (49), Timothy Olyphant (41) and Matt Czuchry (32)
- Busta Rhymes (37): innovative rapper; musicians Cher (63) and Susan Cowsill (50) were also born on this date
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9. a. Nautical. A division on a log line used to measure the speed of a ship.
b. (Abbr. kn. or kt.) A unit of speed, one nautical mile per hour, approximately 1.85 kilometers (1.15 statute miles) per hour.
c. A distance of one nautical mile.
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9. a. Nautical. A division on a log line used to measure the speed of a ship.
b. (Abbr. kn. or kt.) A unit of speed, one nautical mile per hour, approximately 1.85 kilometers (1.15 statute miles) per hour.
c. A distance of one nautical mile.
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