The soundtrack to the original Woodstock festival film got its release on this day in 1970. The triple album has been repackaged and expanded a number of times in the decades since. The Rhino Records collection released on the original festival's 50th anniversary dwarfed all of the previous releases. It contains 38 discs and more than 20 hours of performances from the 1969 festival that had not been previously released.
Other noteworthy May 11 events over the years include...
1941 Eric Burdon of the Animals and War is born.
1947 Allman Brothers Band drummer Butch Trucks is born.
1967 The Beatles record baby You're a Rich Man.
1973 Paul McCartney & Wings open their first tour in Bristol, England.
1973 Stevie Wonder records Higher Ground.
1974 Robert Plant joins Elvis Presley on the song Love Me during Presley's Los Angeles concert.
1979 Bob Dylan opens recording sessions for Slow Train Coming.
1981 Bob Marley dies of cancer.
1981 Frank Zappa puts out four albums on the same day.
1989 The Songwriters Hall of Fame inducts Roy Orbison.
1993 Dire Straits releases On The Night
1995 Eric Clapton, BB King, Jimmy Vaughan, Buddy Guy, Robert Cray and Bonnie Raitt do a tribute to Stevie Ray Vaughan concert in Austin, Texas.
2003 Noel Redding, bass player in the Jimi Hendrix Experience, dies of cirrhosis of the liver complications.
2014 Foreigner bassist Ed Gagliardi dies of cancer at 62
