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The Concert That Almost Ended the Rolling Stones
On Dec. 6, 1969, the Altamont Free Concert put a cap on the sixties, literally and figuratively. The Northern California music festival was to be the West Coast equivalent of Woodstock in spirit ...
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On This Day, Dec. 6: Altamont free concert held in California
Japan attacked Pearl Harbor the next day. In 1969, the Altamont Speedway Free Festival was held in Northern California. The counterculture rock concert is best remembered for a number of violence ...
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Why Astroworld Is Gen Z’s Altamont
That didn’t happen at Astroworld, now destined to be remembered as Gen Z’s own version of Altamont, the notorious 1969 free concert outside San Francisco headlined by the Rolling Stones (and ...
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LIVERMORE, Calif. (UPI) --A stabbing death climaxed the Altamont free concert attended by hundreds of thousands of young persons in perhaps the biggest musical bash of all time at Altamont Speedway.
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Seven brilliant concert movies
to the colosally disastrous Altamont Free Concert. Taking place just four months after Woodstock, Altamont was as brutal as the former was peaceful, with fatally over-zealous security provided by ...
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LIVERMORE, Calif. (UPI) --A stabbing death climaxed the Altamont free concert attended by hundreds of thousands of young persons in perhaps the biggest musical bash of all time at Altamont Speedway.