Was Woodstock the biggest concert ever?

In the end, an estimated 300,000 to 500,000 attended Woodstock, making it the largest music concert in history at the time. Its attendance record didn’t last long.

Did the Woodstock festival make a profit?

It took a decade for the Woodstock organizers to turn a profit. All told, Roberts, Rosenman, Lang and Kornfeld spent nearly $3.1 million ($15 million in today’s money) on Woodstock—and took in just $1.8 million.

How big was the crowd at Woodstock?

400,000
Billed as “an Aquarian Exposition: 3 Days of Peace & Music” and alternatively referred to as the Woodstock Rock Festival, it attracted an audience of more than 400,000.

What went wrong at Woodstock 99?

And the festival really started to go wrong when there was the legendary collapse in sanitation on the site, with poop mixing with mud. Many concert-goers unwittingly wallowed in it, only to later realize they were caked from head to toe in excrement. A heatwave brought record temperatures of 100F.

What killed Woodstock?

Woodstock 1999 The three-day event in Rome, New York, was a horror show of sexual assaults, violence, drug overdoses, overflowing toilets, and heat strokes that culminated in a riot and fires on the final evening; one fan who’d collapsed in a mosh pit during Metallica’s performance died days later.

What went wrong at Woodstock 1969?

In the scramble, the organizers couldn’t get everything ready in time. When the festival-goers poured in, there weren’t enough toilets or medical facilities, and there certainly wasn’t enough food or water. To top it off, the festival grounds were hot, humid, rainy and muddy. No, this wasn’t Fyre Festival.

Was Woodstock a peaceful event?

Woodstock mostly was peaceful, even though there were plenty of reasons for it not to be. No one fought anyone over the last outrageously overpriced $1 hot dog. No one got punched for trying to buy their way to the front of the porta-potty line. But there was one notable instance of violence involving a guitar and someone’s head.

How bad was the traffic at Woodstock?

Politico calls Woodstock one of the top 10 worst traffic jams ever — the traffic was jammed up for 10 miles on the New York Thruway for the entire three days of the festival. Some people even abandoned their cars and walked in, turning the freeway into a parking lot.

How bad was the bathroom at Woodstock?

But still. At Woodstock, there was one toilet for every 833 people, which means standing in the bathroom line was about 18 and a half times suckier than standing in the bathroom line at a modern stadium, and that’s if you’re only taking into consideration the standing-in-line part.

Did Woodstock burn your eyeballs?

The original stories about burned eyeballs appeared a couple years before Woodstock and were debunked in a book called The Pleasure Seekers, which was published just after the festival.