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 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 ...

Lambasted by Rolling Stone magazine as "rock and roll's all-time worst day — a day when everything went perfectly wrong," the 1969 music festival at Altamont Speedway in Northern California was a ...

The second season of Laverne & Shirley had just gone into production when Cindy "Shirley" Williams came down with viral pneumonia, forcing producers of the hit ABC sitcom to shut down production for ...

Dec. 6 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1865, the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified, abolishing slavery in the United States. In 1877, The Washington Post published its first ...

The Rolling Stones are no strangers to rowdy, raucous, and, in the case of the Altamont Free Concert in December 1969, deadly crowds. Indeed, rock ‘n’ roll and riots have seemingly gone hand in hand ...

Was it the man in the blue shirt with the mustache and sideburns holding up the small, three-lens movie camera? Was it the man in the blue shirt with the mustache and sideburns holding up the small, ...

The Rolling Stones began calling themselves the "World's Greatest Rock & Roll Band" in the late Sixties. Few disputed the claim then, and few would dispute it now. The “bad boy” counterparts to the ...

Clôturant une tournée américaine triomphale, les Rolling Stones organisent le 6 décembre 1969 un festival gratuit à Altamont, ...

Lo spettacolo multimediale «Paint it black» ricostruisce una stagione cruciale e drammatica della storica formazione: dalla ...