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*On August 20, 1972, the 30th birthday for Isaac Hayes and just a few days after the seventh anniversary of the Watts Riots, Stax Records held a concert featuring its roster of artists at the Los ...
The documentary Wattstax celebrates its 50th anniversary this month. It will be returning to theaters alongside a new box set called Soul'd Out: The Complete Wattstax Collection. Time capsules are ...
It was spoken of as sort of a black Woodstock. It featured artists like Isaac Hayes and the Staple Singers. And it was right here in L.A. But judging by its absence in conversations about the ‘60s and ...
Join KPFA and The New Parkway for this month’s Documentary Night screening of Wattstax July 2nd at 6:30pm. On August 20,1972 Stax Records organized a concert to commemorate the seventh anniversary of ...
The producers of Wattstax had a problem when it came to the industry's rating system. Intended for family audiences, their movie followed along as multiple Stax Records-affiliated R&B and soul legends ...
Seven years after the 1965 Watts riots in Los Angeles, Stax Records staged the Wattstax Benefit Concert at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum on Aug. 20, 1972, to mark the anniversary. Created in ...
The expanded Wattstax anthology includes the best of the live festival from Wattstax and Wattstax: The Living Word plus a slew of previously unreleased festival performances, selected tracks from the ...
It was spoken of as sort of a black Woodstock. It featured artists like Isaac Hayes and the Staple Singers. And it was right here in L.A. But judging by its absence in conversations about the ’60s and ...
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