The three-day catastrophe is now the subject of Netflix<\/a>\u2018s brand new docuseries \u2013 Trainwreck: Woodstock \u201999 \u2013 in which journalists, festivalgoers and even Woodstock creator Michael Lang break down how the festival went so horribly wrong.<\/p>\n From the scorching hot weather and lack of water, to the sexist attitude cultivated by late 9\u20190s film and TV in America, numerous factors led to Woodstock \u201999 ending in violence, sexual assault and fire \u2013 but what exactly happened and why?<\/p>\n Here\u2019s everything you need to know about the true story behind Netflix\u2019s Trainwreck: Woodstock \u201999 and what happened at the New York festival.<\/p> Woodstock, which was formally known as Woodstock Music and Art Fair, was a music festival held in New York. A culturally iconic event, Woodstock first started in 1969 and was marketed by its founders \u2013 John Roberts, Joel Rosenman, Artie Kornfeld and Michael Lang \u2013 as \u2018Three Days of Peace and Music\u2019.<\/p>\n Held on a 600-acre dairy farm in Bethel, New York, the festival became a cultural phenomenon with its first year welcoming almost 500,000 people, while the likes of Janis Joplin, Joe Cocker, Creedence Clearwater Revival, The Who, Santana and Jimi Hendrix performed.<\/p>\n With many of the musicians calling out the Vietnam War, the original Woodstock became known for the anti-war sentiment held by most of the attendees and was a defining moment for the wave of anti-establishment opinions across the US in the 1960s.<\/p>\n Woodstock was held once again in 1994 \u2013 to commemorate the festival\u2019s 25th anniversary \u2013 and in 1999, where it was held in upstate New York but faced numerous challenges due to instances of violence, hot weather and fire outbreaks.<\/p>\n Woodstock 1999 was the third Woodstock event \u2013 however, it was the least successful of the three, with Rolling Stone<\/a> describing it as \u201cone of the most calamitous festivals of all time\u201d.<\/p>\n While it was meant to commemorate 30 years of peace, love and happiness, various problems with water availability, the weather and episodes of violence resulted in Woodstock \u201999 going down in history as \u201cthe day the Nineties died\u201d.<\/p>\n One of the main problems was the lack of water and the ridiculously high temperatures over the weekend. With few tap water stations and bottled water being sold for $4 on site when the temperatures were hitting the late 30s in celsius, festivalgoers were both dehydrated and displeased with the situation.<\/p>\n And to make matters worse the festival was held on tarmac, meaning the heat wasn\u2019t being absorbed and people were walking for miles across scorching hot concrete.\u00a0According to Syracuse.com<\/a>, at least 700 people were treated for heat exhaustion and dehydration at the festival.<\/p>\n With huge crowds, very few female artists playing the festival and reports of festival goers shouting \u201cshow your t**s\u201d at some women on stage, there were also reports of misogynistic behaviour at Woodstock \u201999, as well as instances of sexual assault and rape.<\/p>\n Rehabilitation counsellor David Schneider told MTV<\/a> at the time, \u201cAt one point I saw this girl, a very petite girl, maybe 100 pounds, who was body-surfing above the crowd and either fell in or was pulled into a circle in the mosh pit.\u201d<\/p>\n He added: \u201cThese gentlemen, probably in the 25\u201332 age range, looked as though they were holding her down. They were holding her arms; you could see she was struggling.\u201d<\/p>\n Even the Woodstock website was allegedly publishing photographs of topless festivalgoers without their consent, while New York State Police troopers were also accused of misconduct, with one allegedly encouraging women to take off their clothes and another saying \u201cshow us some [breasts]\u201d to a female attendee (according to the MTV report).<\/p>\n During the Red Hot Chilli Peppers festival-closing set, attendees took their cover of Jimi Hendrix\u2019s \u2018Fire\u2019 quite literally, with bonfires breaking out throughout the crowd, cars being flipped and booths being torched. State troopers stormed through the crowds in riot gear and managed to diminish the riots.<\/p>\n Various people came away from the festival injured and at least three people died, according to Pitchfork<\/a>, with one \u2013 David DeRosia \u2013 collapsing in the mosh put during Metallica\u2019s performance and dying of heat stroke.<\/p>\n Concert promoter Michael Lang was one of the co-founders of Woodstock Music and Art Fair.\u00a0He also organised the two follow-up festivals: Woodstock \u201994 and the notoriously disastrous Woodstock \u201999. He is interviewed in Trainwreck: Woodstock \u201999, in which he takes on a lot of the blame for the festival\u2019s calamitous nature.<\/p>\n As well as managing the festival, Lang also worked with music artists, managing Joe Cocker and working with Outkast, Snoop Dogg, Steely Dan, Dave Matthews, Norah Jones, Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Alicia Keys and other big names. He also ran Just Sunshine Records, which produced music from Betty Davis and Karen Dalton, among others.<\/p>\n Lang died on January 8th 2022 at the age of 77, having been diagnosed with Non-Hodgkin lymphoma.<\/p>\n Trainwreck: Woodstock \u201999 is available to stream on Netflix<\/a>. <\/strong>Read more of our\u00a0Documentaries<\/a>\u00a0coverage or visit our\u00a0TV Guide<\/a>\u00a0to see what else is on.<\/strong><\/p>\n The latest issue of Radio Times magazine is on sale now \u2013\u00a0subscribe now<\/a>\u00a0and get the next 12 issues for only \u00a31. For more from the biggest stars in TV, listen to the\u00a0Radio Times podcast<\/a> with Jane Garvey.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/body><\/html>\n By Lauren Morris Published: Wednesday, 03 August 2022 at 12:00 am Before there was Fyre Festival\u00a0there was Woodstock \u201999 \u2013 a music festival so disastrous that the San Francisco Chronicle branded it \u201cthe day the music died\u201d. 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