Fire and Rain (28 page)

In Honolulu, Richard Nixon welcomes back Apollo 13 crew members Jack Swigert, Fred Haise, and Jim Lovell, April 18. Five days earlier, an exploding oxygen tank had crippled the flight's mission—and, in many ways, NASA itself. (JP Laffont/Sygma/ Corbis)

Art Garfunkel and Paul Simon onstage at the KB Hall in Copenhagen, Denmark, April 28, during one of the only seven concerts they gave in 1970 to promote
Bridge Over Troubled Water
. (Jan Persson/Getty Images)

Students from New York's Convent of the Sacred Heart celebrate the first Earth Day by scrubbing grubby Union Square, April 22. (AP Images)

Fans flock to New York's Fillmore East to snatch up tickets to Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young's week-long stint, late May. (© 1970 Amalie R. Rothschild)

Neil Young, Graham Nash, David Crosby, and Stephen Stills onstage at the Fillmore East, June 3. (© 1970 Amalie R. Rothschild)

Chaos takes center stage at the “Bach to Rock” festival in Mountaindale, New York, July 11, one of many unsuccessful attempts throughout the year to duplicate Woodstock. (Garth Eliassen/Getty Images)

Stephen Stills and Neil Young backstage in Minneapolis, July 9, the final stop on CSNY's last tour for four years. (Henry Diltz/Morrison Hotel Gallery)

David Crosby poses with pillow flag gun and illegal substance in his hotel room prior to CSNY's July 9 Minneapolis show. (Henry Diltz/Morrison Hotel Gallery)

George Harrison and Phil Spector (with Allen Klein associate Pete Bennett, left) listening to a master of Harrison's
All Things Must Pass
, October 31. To everyone's surprise, it would become the most commercially successful of all the year's Beatle solo albums. (Bettmann/Corbis)

Poster for
Two-Lane Blacktop
, James Taylor's film debut, shot that summer with co-stars Warren Oates, Laurie Bird, and Dennis Wilson. (Everett Collection)

Keeping the dream alive at the Summer Festival for Peace at Shea Stadium, New York, August 6. The same crowd would be far less enthusiastic about Paul Simon's first post-S&G performance that day. (Marty Lederhandler/ AP Images)

Art Garfunkel, Jack Nicholson, and Candice Bergen on the Vancouver set of
Carnal Knowledge,
Garfunkel's second Mike Nichols film and the one intended to transform him into a matinee idol. (The Kobal Collection)