The most famous rock festival of all time, Woodstock, took place 40 years ago, in August 1969. The site for it was the outskirts of the town of Bethel in New York State. Elliot Tiber, now a novelist, screenwriter and comedian, and in those days the owner of a small unprofitable motel in Bethel and one of the creators of the festival, talks about these three great days of music and love. In the author's own words, Taking Woodstock is "the true story of an uprising, a concert, and a life." Tiber recalls with humor how many difficulties the festival organizers had to overcome, and also sets out the story of his own life, which radically changed in the summer of 1969. However, first of all, his book is a biography of the entire generation of “sixties”, who inscribed on their banners “sex, drugs, rock and roll” and “make love, not fight.” The generation that started the fight for civil rights and changed the world once and for all.