Fifty years ago, on Dec. 6, 1969 — "rock ‘n’ roll's all-time worst day… a day when everything went perfectly wrong,” according to Rolling Stone magazine — one of the greatest tragedies in music ...
The Sixties dream of peace and love ended among rancour, blood, and broken ideals in the burnt-orange dusk of 1969’s final days ...
Previously unreleased footage from the 1969 Altamont Speedway Free Festival has been released by the Library of Congress. The concert holds a notorious place in history. More than 300,000 people ...
The Grateful Dead may be icons of the peace and love generation, but a new book reveals the band’s key role in the ill-fated Altamont free music festival, an infamous 1969 concert stained by violence, ...
LIVERMORE — They say if you can remember it, you weren’t there. Even so, the March 27 screening of the film “Gimme Shelter” at the Vine Cinema in Livermore was a trip down memory lane for audience ...
The Rolling Stones perform "Gimme Shelter" at the Altamont Speedway in California. (1969 File Photo/The Associated Press) “Rock and roll’s all-time worst day, December 6th.” So wrote John Burks in ...
Four months after Woodstock celebrated the free-spirited nature of the 1960s, Altamont brought the decade to a crashing close. The free festival, which took place at a speedway 50 miles east of San ...
Altamont has by now acquired the kind of dynastic weight that even the Rolling Stones, for all their grandiose posturing as they promoted the concert, could never have imagined. Today, when we talk ...
In the nearly fifty years since the Rolling Stones played a free outdoor concert at a racetrack in Alameda County, California, the word “Altamont” has become synonymous with the end of the 1960s, and ...
Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. EXCLUSIVE: Gimme Shelter, directed by Albert and David Maysles and Charlotte Zwein, is widely considered one of the greatest music ...
On December 6, 1969, the Rolling Stones took the stage as the final act of the Altamont free festival in northern California, which they had organized. The festival was largely improvised and had been ...
The Grateful Dead may be icons of the peace and love generation, but a new book reveals the band’s key role in the ill-fated Altamont free music festival, an infamous 1969 concert stained by violence, ...
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