Noted British singer, songwriter and actress Marianne Faithful died at age 78 in London while in the company of her family on ...

The Altamont Free Concert in 1969 was supposed to be a West Coast Woodstock. Instead, it turned into a tragic disaster. The Rolling Stones hired the Hells Angels motorcycle gang as security ...

Zwerin pieced together “Gimme Shelter” in a cruddy room at the Londonderry Hotel, the film cannisters piled on windowsills.

The Altamont Free Library’s budget for 2024 totaled $208,120, Director Joe Burke told The Enterprise. The town of Guilderland contributed $71,000; the village of Altamont contributed $61,000; and the ...

In 1969, the Rolling Stones performed at Altamont, one of the most controversial and terrifying concerts of all time. On Dec. 6, 1969, the Altamont Free Concert put a cap on the sixties, literally and ...

Leading lights of the UK's psychedelic revolution, Hawkwind's early days were a fug of good trips, bad trips, free-form chaos and dancing gazelles ...

Sure, it’s pretty much a given that The Rolling Stones would have been high as kites during a major performance, but Gimme Shelter’s backdrop of the disastrous Altamont Free Concert, where drugs were ...

Often seen to mirror the death of the idealistic 60s, the free concert The Rolling Stones performed at California’s Altamont Speedway in December 1969 was tagged onto the end of their triumphant ...

The Rolling Stones’ disastrous free concert at the Altamont Speedway in Northern California on December 6, 1969, is remembered as the event that killed the ’60s utopian dream for good ...