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Embed AUDIE CORNISH, HOST: Ahmir Questlove Thompson knows you have probably heard a lot about that legendary summer concert festival of the late 1960s. AHMIR THOMPSON: In the beginning, I was like, OK, let me watch Woodstock. And I was like, no, no, no, no. I don t want to be influenced. CORNISH: But a few years back, Thompson, best known as drummer and composer with The Roots, was asked to direct a music documentary about another legendary concert, one you probably haven t heard about - the Harlem Cultural Festival, a series of free shows at the city s Mount Morris Park that ran six weekends in the summer of 1969. Three hundred thousand people attended. And they saw a galaxy of stars that, well, we re all familiar with but whom we might not have glimpsed at just this moment in their careers - Motown s Gladys Knight in ingenue with a tortoiseshell clip pressed into her teased hair.

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