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, ...
The Sixties dream of peace and love ended among rancour, blood, and broken ideals in the burnt-orange dusk of 1969’s final days ...
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 ...
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 ...
Did a tarot card reading predict the Rolling Stones’ Altamont disaster 50 years ago? On Dec. 6, 1969 — “perhaps rock and roll’s all-time worst day ... a day when everything went perfectly wrong,” ...
One day in early December 1969, a KGO radio traffic helicopter cruised past the East Bay city of Livermore, on its way to the hilly, barren, treeless landscape known as the Altamont Pass. That copter ...
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 ...
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Jim Clash writes about extreme adventure and classic rock. This article is more than 10 years old. Forty-six years ago this week, ...
It's easy to see the cataclysm as a symbol: of the end of the '60s, of the death of the counterculture, of the Woodstock generation's rude wake-up. The Dec. 6, 1969, Rolling Stones concert at Altamont ...
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, ...
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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