40 years ago, at what Rolling Stone called "the most famous event in rock history", the original Woodstock Music & Art Fair was held in Bethel, New York. Of the 32 acts that performed during the festival, five of them, Janis Joplin, Jefferson Airplane, Johnny Winter, Santana, and Sly & the Family Stone, had just recorded albums for Sony Music labels. For the first time today, the Woodstock Experience series combines those albums along with the music from their festival performance in one wonderful package.

This summer celebrates the 40th Anniversary or what Rolling Stone called "the most famous event in rock history", of the original Woodstock Music & Art Fair. In the summer of 1969, 500,000 people and 32 musical performances came together in Bethel, New York, for an event that sufused our culture, politically and socially, as much as musically.