The Grateful Dead may be icons of the peace and love generation, but a new book reveals the band’s key role in the ill-fated Altamont free music festival, an infamous 1969 concert stained by violence, ...

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 ...

Did a tarot card reading predict the Rolling Stones’ Altamont disaster 50 years ago? On Dec. 6, 1969 — “perhaps rock and roll’s all-time worst day ... a day when everything went perfectly wrong,” ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Jim Clash writes about extreme adventure and classic rock. This article is more than 9 years old. Forty-six years ago this week, ...

One day in early December 1969, a KGO radio traffic helicopter cruised past the East Bay city of Livermore, on its way to the hilly, barren, treeless landscape known as the Altamont Pass. That copter ...

The Rolling Stones perform "Gimme Shelter" at the Altamont Speedway in California. (1969 File Photo/The Associated Press) “Rock and roll’s all-time worst day, December 6th.” So wrote John Burks in ...

Recordings from the 1969 concert and interviews with those who were there reveal how the festival became a scene of chaos, violence and death. Episode 2 brings you inside the concert and a day many ...

It's easy to see the cataclysm as a symbol: of the end of the '60s, of the death of the counterculture, of the Woodstock generation's rude wake-up. The Dec. 6, 1969, Rolling Stones concert at Altamont ...

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 ...

The Altamont concert, with its notorious murder caught on film, occurred 45 years ago. Many consider it to be the end of the ‘60s, Owen Gleiberman writes. Forty-five years ago, on 6 December 1969, a ...

The Grateful Dead may be icons of the peace and love generation, but a new book reveals the band’s key role in the ill-fated Altamont free music festival, an infamous 1969 concert stained by violence, ...