![]() ![]() Melanie was set to perform at Woodstock co-founder Michael Lang's axed 50th-anniversary concert this year (Lang said all of the artists were paid in full despite the event's cancellation). "Very few people got paid, unless the agency was representing them," the 72-year-old added. Oh, this group is coming.' I guess because people were pulling out, canceling because they knew that it was chaos." ![]() "People would say things like, 'Oh, Bob Dylan's coming. Maybe I will be an archaeologist maybe I will join the Peace Corps. It's raining, I'm free, I'll go back to life as it was. "Then it started to rain and I truly believed that everyone was going to get up and go home. ![]() The thought of me performing in front of all of those people and that huge stage - I was all by myself," she said. Melanie, whose full name is Melanie Safka, had been waiting for hours and hours to perform, sitting on the side of the stage as she watched Richie Havens and others complete their sets. She was just 22 when she performed at the historic concert that also included Jimi Hendrix, the Grateful Dead and Joan Baez. "I had an out-of-body experience and I wasn't altered by drugs," she recalled. NEW YORK - Melanie, known as the First Lady of Woodstock, remembers having a supernatural experience as she walked on the rainy stage in 1969 to perform at one of the most iconic events of all-time, though iconic isn't how anyone would have described the day back then. ![]()
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