He had to have surgery to remove polyps from his vocal cords. “We had our own Woodstock,” says wife, Zelma Redding.Īt this high point of his career, there was only one cloud on Otis Redding’s horizon. In the wake of his success on the worldwide stage provided by the Monterey festival, he hosted a huge barbecue for about 300 guests involved in the music industry at his 300-acre Big O Ranch about 25 miles north of his former home in Macon, Georgia. As the only soul music act at the 1967 Monterey International Pop Festival, Otis gave a scintillating performance that, according to the Memphis Music Hall of Fame, “stole the show from Janis Joplin, the Who, and Jimi Hendrix.” He now became an ascending star, not just among African Americans, but with pop music fans all over the world.
Then came the event that catapulted Otis Redding to fame with an audience he had never reached before.
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