Back when rock was dangerous… In August 1969, 400,000 young people gathered in a muddy field in New York state for a festival of Peace, Love, and Music that changed the course of rock and has remained an indelible symbol of the idealism of the sixties to this day.

Santana, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Joan Baez, Joe Cocker, Richie Havens, and many others were the stars of this ascent. But how can you understand and explain the myth of Woodstock when you weren’t there? The authors of this book, still children in 1969 but already full of curiosity about the new sounds and ways of life coming from Europe and America, strive to answer this question.

Along with the connection they seek with the broader musical and socio-political context of the time, there is an exploration of the impact that the reverberations of the festival (when the documentary and live recordings arrived) had on Greece in the early '70s regarding music and political matters, as well as lifestyle.

The book offers music lovers, for the first time in the Greek language, a comprehensive chronicle of the festival, covering each performance in the order they took place, with comments, photographs, information about the artists, and a complete list of the songs that were played.

This book is ultimately a product of a utopian nostalgia from two twelve-year-olds in 1969 for that summer when man walked on the moon and rock was still dangerous, deceptively showing that it might inherit the world…