Knock on Woodstock : The uproarious, uncensored story of the Woodstock Festival, the gay man who made it happen, and how he earned his ticket to freedom

Elliot Tiber

In 1969 a million "hippies" music lovers and flower-children descended on the sleepy town of White Lake in New York's Catskill Mountains for the Woodstock Festival - three days of music, mayhem, drugs, sex and celebration. Elliot Tiber tells the inside story of this unlikely event. Here is his uncensored story of how, as a gay man, he escaped from the closet, and from the clutches of his dysfunctional immigrant family and their down-at-the-heels resort - the infamous El Monaco Motel - headquarters for the event that defined a generation.