As Woodstock's opening act, Havens was scheduled to spend just 20 minutes on stage. But after his set, he was asked to keep singing because the second act, Santana, was nowhere to be found.
"So I'd go back and sing three more," Havens says. "This happened six times. So I sung every song I knew."
By that time, Havens had been onstage almost three hours — and still they needed more. "And I thought, 'Gosh, what am I going to do?'"
Then he belted out "Freedom,"
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