A talk by legendary rock journalist Charles Shaar Murray. Woodstock 40 Years On And The Whole Hippie Thing - Charles marks the 40th anniversary of the Woodstock Festival. The latest in his explorations into the history of rock and its attendant culture traces rock's hippie dream from the Monterey Pop Festival in the 1967 Summer of Love to its bloody death at Altamont with The Rolling Stones. A euphoric moment in which rock music briefly embodied the highest ideals and aspirations of the human spirit, or just a bunch of middle-class white kids let off the parental and social leash and using the opportunity to have sex, drugs and rock and roll in a muddy field? Charles Shaar Murray, "the rock critic's rock critic" (Q Magazine), "front-line cultural warrior" and "original gunslinger" (Independent on Sunday) is the Ralph J. Gleason Music Book Award-winning author of Crosstown Traffic: Jimi Hendrix And Post-war Pop, and Boogie Man: The Adventures of John Lee Hooker in the American Twentieth Century, short-listed for the same award. The first two decades of his journalism, criticism and vulgar abuse have been collected in Shots From The Hip (Penguin). Buy Tickets Online: http://www.onestives.co.uk/Entertainment/entertainmentfestival.html

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