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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The 50th anniversary of the historic Altamont rock festival occurred last week. Perhaps you noticed all those news reports on the internet featuring photos of beautiful young women dancing around with ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...