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The Eagles, l to r: Bernie Leadon, Glenn Frey, Don Henley, Randy Meisner, Don Felder, ca. early 1970s. (Photo by Everett/Shutterstock)
Bethel, NY – AUGUST, 1969: General view of the crowd and stage during the Woodstock Rock Festival circa August, 1969 on Max Yasgur's dairy farm in Bethel, New York. (Photo by Howard Arnold Collection/Getty Images)
George Harrison on guitar and Ringo Starr on drums belt out some of the songs made famous by the Beatles before capacity crowd attending afternoon concert for benefit of East Pakistan refugees at Madison Square Garden. The Concert For Bangladesh was the event title for two benefit concerts organized by George Harrison and Ravi Shankar, playing to a total of 40,000 people at Madison Square Garden. Organized for the relief of refugees from East Pakistan (now independent Bangladesh) after the 1970 Bhola cyclone and during the 1971 Bangladesh atrocities and Bangladesh Liberation War, the event was the first benefit concert of this magnitude in world history(Photo By: Thomas Monaster/NY Daily News via Getty Images)
Portrait of Indonesian-born Dutch Pop singer Taco (born Taco Ockerse) as he poses backstage at the Park West, Chicago, Illinois, November 4, 1983. (Photo by Paul Natkin/Getty Images)
