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Woodstock The late sixties, a time of peace, music, drugs, sex and rock and roll. Most memories would have been forgotten but one, never to be forgotten going down as the greatest concert in the history of rock. Woodstock 1969, uniting thousands of people to create a story to be passed down threw the generations to come. Undergoing the plans to Woodstock Music and Art Fair were four men all in their early to mid-twenties: John Roberts, Joel Rosenman, Artie Kornfled, and Michael Lang. John Roberts who was the financial backer, was an heir to a drugstore and to the toothpaste company fortune. While playing golf Roberts met soon to be good friend and roommate Joel Rosenman. During their stay as roommates the two often scrambled up ideas of what the future held for the two. Basically in another world was Artie Kornfled an upbeat vice president at Capitol Records. Michael Lang, a manager for local bands, had already produced one of the biggest rock festivals, a two-day Miami pop festival, attracting 40,000 people in 1968. Making Lang the most qualified of the four young men. Lang needed to work with somebody to realize his ambitions that somebody would be Kornfeld. A meeting was set up between Lang and Kornfled, immediate