Woodstock creator Michael Lang dead at 77 – Promoter behind iconic festival dies after fight with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma

MICHAEL Lang, the co-creator and organizer of the famous Woodstock music festival in 1969 has died at the age of 77.

He passed away at Sloan Kettering in New York City after losing his battle with a rare form of Non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, according to a family spokesperson Michael Pagnotta.

Getty Images – GettyMichael Lang was an organizer of the famous Woodstock festival in 1969[/caption]

Raised in Brooklyn he attended college in New York City before moving into concert promotion in the late 1960.

His first major event he organized was the 1968 Miami Pop Festival where the line-up included Jimi Hendrix, Frank Zappa and John Lee Hooker.