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 ...

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If Woodstock was the high point of 1960s idealism, Altamont has been called its death knell. Weirdly, these two events happened less than four months apart from one another—Woodstock took place from ...

Trouble was just a shot away for Mick Jagger in the early 1970s. After the Rolling Stones’ free concert in Altamont, California ended in a tragic death in late 1969, the rocker was plagued with fear ...

"Rock and roll's all-time worst day, December 6th." So wrote John Burks in February 1970 in Rolling Stone, referring to what might be the genre's most infamous concert - the Rolling Stones' 1969 ...

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Rolling Stone, then based in San Francisco, dispatched a small team to Bethel, New York, to cover Woodstock in August 1969: New York bureau chief Jan Hodenfield, reviews editor Greil Marcus and ...

The full story of the free festival at California’s Altamont Speedway in 1969 has never been told. Sure, the concert film/documentary Gimme Shelter was released in 1970, but that was a movie, an ...

The 50th anniversary of the historic Altamont rock festival occurred last week. Perhaps you noticed all those news reports on the internet featuring photos of beautiful young women dancing around with ...

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 helicopter landed just before 3 p.m. and Mick Jagger, 26 years old, bushy-haired and chewing gum, peacocked onto the pavement. That’s when a stranger ran toward him. “I hate you!” the man screamed ...