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Concert promoter and music manager who helped to create the great monument to 1960s counterculture – Woodstock
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Concert promoter and music manager who helped to create the great monument to 1960s counterculture – Woodstock
The Library of Congress revealed previously unseen footage from Altamont in 1969, including the Flying Burrito Brothers and CSNY.
The National Audio-Visual Conservation Center has found a never-before-seen home movie of the infamous Altamont Free Concert in 1969, during which a member of the Hell's Angels killed a member of the audience. The incident became a cultural turning point of the era.
A list of the 100 best classic rock songs, but each legendary band only gets one selection.
It was 52 years ago today (December 6th, 1969) that the Rolling Stones held their ill-fated free concert at the Altamont Speedway in Livermore, California. The bill, which also included Santana, the Jefferson Airplane, the Flying Burrito Brothers, and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, is mainly remembered for the violence instigated by the Hells Angels motorcycle gang, whom the Stones had hired as security -- and the murder of concert-goer Meredith Hunter by Hells Angel Alan Passaro. Passaro was later acquitted of the stabbing after claiming he acted in self-defense. The Stones' Madis...