Woodstock music festival co-creator Michael Lang dies aged 77

Michael Lang has died aged 77 (Jeff Christensen/AP)

Michael Lang, a co-creator and promoter of the 1969 Woodstock music festival, has died aged 77.

Michael Pagnotta, a spokesperson for Lang’s family, said he had been battling non-Hodgkin lymphoma and died on Saturday at New York’s Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Centre.