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 ...

Four months after Woodstock celebrated the free-spirited nature of the 1960s, Altamont brought the decade to a crashing close. The free festival, which took place at a speedway 50 miles east of San ...

Altamont has by now acquired the kind of dynastic weight that even the Rolling Stones, for all their grandiose posturing as they promoted the concert, could never have imagined. Today, when we talk ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Credit: Evening Standard via Getty Images One of the more endearing moments of 2010's Classic Rock Awards came when Exile On Main ...

It had been a while since I’d seen “Gimme Shelter,” one of the early classics of the Maysles brothers, Albert and David, and I watched it again on the occasion of the passing of Albert Maysles last ...

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 ...

If you go to a Rolling Stones concert these days, the last thing you’ll probably worry about is whether you’re going to make it out alive. You will get gouged by the beer vendor, but there’s little, ...

The decade of peace and love and the counterculture movement is perceived to have reached its symbolic abrupt end at the Rolling Stones’ Altamont Free Concert at the turn of the decade in 1969. What ...

LIVERMORE — As a former tour manager for the Rolling Stones, Ron Schneider has stories. From horseback riding with Keith Richards, to 100 mph car chases with unruly fans, and the time Richards nearly ...

SAN FRANCISCO — On the morning of December 10, a scattering of friends and kin gathered in a foggy cemetery in the bedroom commuter community of Vallejo to bury Meredith Hunter, who had just turned 18 ...

Mick Jagger on stage at Altamont. Dec. 6, 1969. Ethan Russell has a funny story about the late Jim Marshall, who helped create the archetype of the rock ‘n’ roll photographer. Marshall, who took ...

Baby boomers know their rock mythology, and when it comes to assigning an expiration date to the hippie heights of the 1960s, many of them will point to Dec. 6, 1969 as a day of infamy — if not quite ...