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 ...

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 ...

The Leonard Lopate Show, hosted by Leonard Lopate for over three decades, featured conversations that New Yorkers turned to each afternoon for insight into a wide variety of topics; including ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A 1969 concert that ended in tragedy sparked a tense relationship between the motorcycle club and the British rock band Mick ...

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 ...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - December 6 is a day that will live in infamy in the annals of rock 'n' roll. On that day in 1969, the Rolling Stones gave a free concert at the Altamont Speedway, east of San ...

The free concert was supposed to be a celebration marking the end of the group's 1969 U.S. tour. But instead, it turned into chaos. At Altamont, How 'Woodstock West' Turned Into 'Rock's Darkest Day' ...

On this day, Dec. 6, in 1969, a teenager was fatally stabbed by a Hells Angels member during a Rolling Stones concert at Altamont Speedway near Oakland. Advertised to be “Woodstock West,” the show ...

On this day, Dec. 6, in 1969, a teenager was fatally stabbed by a Hells Angels member during a Rolling Stones concert at Altamont Speedway. The free show near Oakland, Calif., anticipated to be ...