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In the final days of the Sixties, The Rolling Stones join forces with other rock legends to plan a free concert at Altamont that will rival Woodstock.The “bad boys of rock” don’t have the best relationship with the police, so they think of another option for security: The Hells Angels. They’re both anti-establishment, they’re both counterculture: what could possibly go wrong?
Further reading
Altamont: The Rolling Stones, the Hells Angels, and the Inside Story of Rock’s Darkest Day by Joel Selvin
LIFE Rides With Hells Angels, 1965
A Long Strange Trip, Dennis McNally
Hell’s Angels, Hunter s Thompson
Keith Richards on Keith Richards, ed Sean Egan
Keith Richards, Victor Bockris
Life, Keith Richards
Mick Jagger, Philip Norman
Stone Alone, Bill Wyman
Old Gods Almost Dead, Stephen Davis
Don’t look back: The story of Altamont, the rock festival that the ’60s wants to forget. Geoff Edgers, Washington Post 21 Nov, 2019
The Rolling Stones Disaster at Altamont: Let It Bleed. Rolling Stone January 21, 1970
The long strange saga of the Grateful Dead and the Hells Angels. SF Gate, June 2022.
Tappin, B., Van Der Leer, L., & McKay, R. (2017). The heart trumps the head: Desirability bias in political belief revision. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 146(8), 1143-1149. https://doi.org/10.1037/xge0000298