Baby Blue". The same is true of Alarm Clock, on which a magical "Here Comes The Sun" overshadows his own eight compositions. Havens never quite made it to the top flight of American singer ...

Richie Havens, who brought an earthy soulfulness to the folk scene of the Sixties and was the first act to hit the stage at Woodstock, died of a heart attack on Monday, April 22. He was 72 and was ...

Folk singer Richie Havens, who died at 72 in 2013 ... catapulting him to fame and securing his status as an icon of the baby-boomer generation. Havens would tour widely for the next 40 years ...

Folk music icon Richie Havens has described himself as being not in show business, but in the communication business. “There are several things that music has done, that I’ve seen, which is ...

Usually, anyway. Sometimes, the recall of what was is a match for what is. That would be Richie Havens, the iconic singer-songwriter-guitarist who died of a heart attack on Monday at the age of 72.

Richie Havens once told NPR that he believed all music is folk music. Listen to Havens speak about Woodstock, Greenwich Village and why he loved performing in Neda Ulaby's remembrance, broadcast ...

Richie Havens, the folk singer and guitarist who was the first performer at Woodstock, died Monday at age 72. Havens died of a heart attack in New Jersey, his family said in a statement.

Folk singer and guitarist Richie Havens, who opened the 1969 Woodstock music festival with a legendary and lengthy set that helped make him famous, died Monday at age 72. Richie Havens in concert ...

Richie Havens, one of the veterans of Woodstock ... ‘I Started A Joke’ and Bob Dylan’s ‘It’s All Over Now Baby Blue’. That same year he released his second album ‘Alarm Clock ...