A 1969 concert that ended in tragedy sparked a tense relationship between the motorcycle club and the British rock band Mick Jagger sings next to a Hells Angels member at the Altamont Speedway on Dec.
Several attempts were made on the rockstar's life, only ending after the biker gang was allegedly paid the $50,000 more than a decade later In retaliation, they put a hit on Mick Jagger, with leader ...
EXCLUSIVE: Gimme Shelter, directed by Albert and David Maysles and Charlotte Zwein, is widely considered one of the greatest music documentaries of all time. The film, which chronicled the Rolling ...
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 ...
Jay Dobyns lived a double life for two years, and it nearly cost him his life. Now retired, Dobyns worked for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), which enforces the nation’s ...
LIVERMORE, Calif. (AP) — Sonny Barger, the leather-clad fixture of 1960s counterculture and figurehead of the Hells Angels motorcycle club who was at the notorious Rolling Stones concert at Altamont ...
Gimme Shelter started out ostensibly as a rock and roll concert film but ultimately became a grotesque, intellectual exploration of one of pop music’s great tragedies: the 1969 Rolling Stones concert ...
With the death this week of Ralph “Sonny” Barger, national president of famed motorcycle club the Hells Angels, a piece of vibrant American pop culture history recedes farther into the past. It’s hard ...