A free Rolling Stones concert turned violent melee that left four dead and many others injured, the Altamont Speedway Free Festival occurred 55 years ago today — a disaster that is often ...

Japan attacked Pearl Harbor the next day. In 1969, the Altamont Speedway Free Festival was held in Northern California. The ...

After the Rolling Stones’ free concert in Altamont, California ended in a tragic death in late 1969, the rocker was plagued with fear that amid a turning tide of public opinion, he may be next.

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 ...

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.

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 ...

The Rolling Stones had just begun Under My Thumb and Mick Jagger was only a line or so into the song when music writer Stanley Booth, standing beside guitarist Keith Richards’ amplifier, spotted ...

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.