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 ...

Josh Yandell walked to the end of his driveway in the Altamont neighborhood on a recent Wednesday morning and gestured to the stretch of wide, snow-blanketed road he refers to as the “11th Avenue ...

Fifty years ago, on Dec. 6, 1969 — "rock ‘n’ roll's all-time worst day… a day when everything went perfectly wrong,” according to Rolling Stone magazine — one of the greatest tragedies in music ...

The music died 50 years ago Friday. The crazy thing is how close it came to dying in our arms, at the raceway in the rolling hills of southern Sonoma County. On Dec. 6, 1969, the Rolling Stones ...

The Altamont concert was a free concert given by the Rolling Stones at the Altamont Speedway in east Contra Costa County on December 6th, 1969. Originally intended to be in Golden Gate Park, it was ...

Previously unreleased footage from the 1969 Altamont Speedway Free Festival has been released by the Library of Congress. The concert holds a notorious place in history. More than 300,000 people ...

"Rock and roll's all-time worst day, December 6th." So wrote John Burks in February 1970 in Rolling Stone, referring to what might be the genre's most infamous concert - the Rolling Stones' 1969 ...

TRACY, Calif. (KGO) -- Dec. 6, 2019, is the 50th anniversary of the infamous rock concert at the Altamont Speedway in Tracy where four people died. One of the victims, Meredith Hunter, was stabbed by ...

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Trouble was just a shot away for Mick Jagger in the early 1970s. After the Rolling Stones’ free concert in Altamont, California ended in a tragic death in late 1969, the rocker was plagued with fear ...

The music died 50 years ago Friday. The crazy thing is how close it came Sears Point Raceway. The music died 50 years ago Friday. The crazy thing is how close it came to dying in our arms, at the ...