Jan 11th, 2010 · Today, Sony Legacy Recordings and the estate of the late guitarist announced the pending release of Valleys of Neptune, 12 studio tracks recorded in 1969, mostly by the original Jimi Hendrix Experience. The songs have never been commercially available, but will come out in March.
Sep 28th, 2009 · Donald Fisher and his wife Doris opened the first Gap in 1969 in San Francisco, after running into difficulties finding jeans that fit. Fisher died at at home Sunday after a long battle with cancer. He was 81. Sally Singer, the fashion news and features editor of Vogue magazine, talks with Renee Montagne about Fisher's accomplishments.
Sep 25th, 2009 · Susan Atkins, a follower of cult leader Charles Manson whose remorseless witness stand confession to killing pregnant actress Sharon Tate in 1969 shocked the world, has died. She was 61 and had been suffering from brain cancer.
Sep 8th, 2009 · Diehard fans of The Beatles have been waiting for this moment for decades. On Sept. 9, EMI will release remastered copies of the band's entire catalog, from 1963's Please Please Me to the 1969 album Abbey Road. The remastered versions offer stunning clarity to The Beatles' music, allowing fans to hear elements in the songs they most likely never noticed before, like subtle sound effects or guitar lines that were lost in the original, all-analog releases.
Aug 28th, 2009 · Ang Lee's film focuses not on the 1969 music festival itself, but on one of the people whose lives were changed by it: Elliot Teichberg, a closeted gay man who offered up his parents' decrepit motel as a home base for the festival's producers. David Edelstein reviews.
Aug 28th, 2009 · A prize possession in the Dutch national museum is not what the curators thought. In 1969, three Apollo 11 astronauts visited the Netherlands. And the U.S. ambassador gave the Dutch prime minister what he said was a moon rock. When an expert saw the rock in the museum, he didn't think it was real. Geologists have identified the moon rock as petrified wood.
Aug 25th, 2009 · Ang Lee's agreeable comedy looks at the now-legendary music festival through the eyes of the Catskills motel owners who, in the summer of 1969, found themselves at the center of a counter-culture event. Critic Scott Tobias says it's like making the gravedigger the hub of a Hamlet remake.
Aug 21st, 2009 · In 1969, John Lennon and Yoko Ono spent their honeymoon in bed, in an effort to promote a message of world peace. Now, the World March for Peace and Nonviolence is bringing back the bed-in — in New York's Central Park — to raise awareness of nuclear proliferation.