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Richie Havens Was Not Supposed To Be The Opener & Ten Other Things You May Not Know About Woodstock.
Richie Havens Was Not Supposed To Be The Opener & Ten Other Things You May Not Know About Woodstock.
Richie Havens Was Not Supposed To Be The Opener & Ten Other Things You May Not Know About Woodstock.
On Monday, folk singer Richie Havens died of a heart attack in his New Jersey home at the age of 72. Havens, a New York native, had made a name for himself in the Greenwich Village folk scene of the 1960s, before rocketing to fame as the first performer at the legendary Woodstock Music & Art Fair in August 1969. But, did you know that Havens wasn’t supposed to open the show? As we remember thi