Michael Lang, co-creator of 1969 Woodstock music festival, dies aged 77

Lang worked with Artie Kornfeld, John Roberts and Joel Rosenman to stage epic counterculture event in farmland north of New York

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Michael Lang, a co-creator and promoter of the 1969 Woodstock music festival, has died.

Michael Pagnotta, a spokesperson for Lang’s family, said the 77-year-old had non-Hodgkin lymphoma and died on Saturday at the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in New York.

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