An Oscar favorite had certain viewers gasping in disbelief.
But in the months since the movie came out last summer, a small subset of viewers who sat down to watch it were greeted with more than just never-before-seen footage of artists like Stevie Wonder and Nina Simone: They discovered never-before-seen footage of themselves, family members, or friends.One such viewer was Karen Cox-Greene, a 66-year-old now living in Florida. “I used to tell people all the time, I went to a free concert, and I saw Stevie Wonder,” Cox-Greene told me.
, Questlove spoke about hearing similar stories on social media from people who’d watched the movie, others who managed to ID themselves or a brother or a great-grandmother on screen. “That to me is my favorite part of this whole process,” he said. It’s an echo of one of the most moving parts of the film, which is witnessing artists who appeared in the concert series back in 1969 watch footage of their performances for the first time, 50 years later.
Cox-Greene couldn’t recall specifics of the day, like how she ended up at the concert. “I honestly don’t know how I got there. I lived in Queens. My cousin was 14, I was 13, and my friend Debbie was 15. How did we get to Harlem, and do our parents know that we even went there?” Nor could she remember how she ended up so close to the stage. “How did I get to the front row?” she said. “Probably just weaseled my way up. As a New Yorker, that’s what you do. And we probably got there early.
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