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TIL rock band Creedence Clearwater Revival played the 1969 Woodstock festival but refused to allow their performance to be included in the movie or on the soundtrack. The Greatful Dead had just finished a long mellow set so when CCR took the stage after midnight most of the audience was asleep.

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