Monday, May 19, 2025

A great Woodstock love story? Didn't know there was one...

You recoognize that, right? As 20-year-old sweethearts, Nick Ercoline and Bobbi Kelly were immortalized as the poster (flower) children of Woodstock. A photograph of the couple — wrapped in a tender embrace and a pink blanket — became the cover of 1970’s “Woodstock: Music from the Original Soundtrack and More.” But at the time, they had no clue that photographer Burke Uzzle had even captured the shot at the festival, which took place the weekend of Aug. 15 to 18, 1969.
 

“I don’t know how it happened,” Nick told The NYPost a few years back. Yet the photo endured — and so did the love story. Fifty four years after Woodstock, sadly, Bobbi passed away in 2023. 
“It’s a moment I treasure still this day,” said Nick. “When we first saw each other in the morning, that’s the first thing we did. We gave each other a hug and a kiss, and we stood there for about a minute or so, hanging on to each other.”
 


2 comments:

  1. I have this on vinyl and digitized.

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  2. Lucky couple. Good post! Barco Sin Vela II

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