[Alberta's Child]

For all the hype about Woodstock in 1969, the Allman Brothers were one of three bands (along with The Band and the Grateful Dead) at an even bigger event four years later. The Summer Jam at Watkins Glen in 1973 attracted what is still considered the largest crowd ever at a music festival, with an estimated 600,000 fans on hand for the one-day event.

[Steven Scharf]

One million of my friends and I were at Simon and Garfunkel’s 1981 Central Park reunion concert.