Richie Havens

Richie Havens

Birthday: 1941-01-21

Place of Birth: Brooklyn, New York, USA

Biography: Richard Pierce Havens was an American singer-songwriter and guitarist. His music encompassed elements of folk, soul, and rhythm and blues. He had an intense and rhythmic guitar style (often in open tunings), and played soulful covers of pop and folk songs. He was the opening act at Woodstock.

Movies

Woodstock
Woodstock

An intimate look at the Woodstock Music & Art Festival held in Bethel, NY in 1969, from preparation ...

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Perfect Harmony
Perfect Harmony

During the 1950s, a private school in the south undergoes racial tension as it experiences desegrega...

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Richie Havens - Live at Montreux Casino 1972
Richie Havens - Live at Montreux Casino 1972

Richie Havens concert at Casino de Montreux, Switzerland in 1971. With Paul Williams (guitar), Em...

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Tribute to Harry Chapin
Tribute to Harry Chapin

Tribute concert held in 1987 at Carnegie Hall (and later televised on PBS), commemorating Harry Chap...

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...Sings the Beatles
...Sings the Beatles

A look back at some of the Beatles' performances....

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Catch My Soul
Catch My Soul

Screenwriter John Good's rock & roll adaptation of Shakespeare's Othello who is a wandering evangeli...

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Rolling Stone Magazine: The 10th Anniversary
Rolling Stone Magazine: The 10th Anniversary

Train wreck, some might call it a TV special, proving that not everything was better in the good old...

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Greenwich Village: Music That Defined a Generation
Greenwich Village: Music That Defined a Generation

Explores the music scene in Greenwich Village, New York in the '60s and early '70s. The film highlig...

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Gil Scott-Heron: The Revolution Will Not Be Televised
Gil Scott-Heron: The Revolution Will Not Be Televised

Gil Scott-Heron was one of the most influential musicians and poets of the last 50 years. In Don Let...

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Hearts of Fire
Hearts of Fire

A reclusive musician, once a huge rock star, takes a young female protegee. While on a tour she meet...

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The Boss' Son
The Boss' Son

Bobby Rose has just returned home after graduating business school. He agrees to start working for h...

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Street Hunter
Street Hunter

Logan Blade is a tough police officer who has to confront a gang led by ruthless Colonel Walsh....

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Orphan of War
Orphan of War

A Mossad agent goes to New York to try to stop an illegal arms shipment to Iraq prior to the Gulf Wa...

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Woodstock Diary
Woodstock Diary

Woodstock Diary was originally broadcasted on U.S. TV in August 1994 - in honor of the 25th annivers...

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Greased Lightning
Greased Lightning

The true life story of Wendell Scott, the first black stock car racing driver to win an upper-tier N...

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Woodstock: Three Days That Defined a Generation
Woodstock: Three Days That Defined a Generation

50 years after the legendary fest, Barak Goodman’s electric retelling of Woodstock, from the point o...

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Woody Guthrie All-Star Tribute Concert 1970
Woody Guthrie All-Star Tribute Concert 1970

In 1970, three years following his death from Huntington’s disease, an all-star cast of musicians ga...

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The Girl, the Gold Watch & Dynamite
The Girl, the Gold Watch & Dynamite

In this sequel to "The Girl, the Gold Watch & Everything," down-on-his-luck Kirby Winter inherits a ...

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I'm Not There
I'm Not There

Six actors portray six personas of music legend Bob Dylan in scenes depicting various stages of his ...

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Wake at Generation
Wake at Generation

An unreleased concert film, shot at the Generation Club on 8th St. in NYC on April 7, 1968. Big Bro...

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... Sings Dylan II
... Sings Dylan II

A feast of cover versions of Bob Dylan songs from the BBC archives, with classic tracks old and new ...

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Woodstock Directors cut
Woodstock Directors cut

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