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Stories of exceptional people and long lasting love in the time of Woodstock. In the 1960s and '70s, Frank Yandolino rode the hippie counterculture activity alongside visionaries like Artie Kornfeld and Michael Lang, and he helped put together the Woodstock Event of 1969, the era's emblem of love and peacefulness. From then on (and even before that), Yandolino, a beguiling fast-talker, charmer, and gifted storyteller, required charge of his life corresponding to those ideals, getting and embracing all opportunities which were tossed his way. This memoir can be an consideration of his life as a hippie, art director, entrepreneur, manager, and screenwriter (as well as several other hats he used in the creative industry) - representing music artists like Joe Cocker and Paul Butterfield, art directing at Penthouse mag, designing "erotic bed linens," and writing a screenplay about Marilyn Monroe and her seamstress Lena Pepitone, among other things. With his gung-ho frame of mind and fortuitous contacts, Yandolino befriended Salvador Dali, hung out with Jimi Hendrix, ran with Abbie Hoffman, was kidnapped by way of a festival security fine detail in Paris, blended with models and Penthouse household pets, and watched magic formula Hells Angels initiation ceremonies. Throughout everything, Yandolino's key concept is his "free bird" school of thought of getting every chance you can and staying true to one's imaginative individuality. And, in the end, despite his fast life, he was always grounded by his love for his wife, Charli.
