The helicopter landed just before 3 p.m. and Mick Jagger, 26 years old, bushy-haired and chewing gum, peacocked onto the pavement. That’s when a stranger ran toward him. “I hate you!” the man screamed ...

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 ...

If Woodstock was the high point of 1960s idealism, Altamont has been called its death knell. Weirdly, these two events ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Coinciding with the arrest of Charles Manson, the Altamont Speedway Free Festival is often presented as the symbolic end of the 1960s counterculture. The mayhem at the notorious rock concert, some of ...

The best books on rock and roll have invariably been comprised of layer upon layer of information interwoven with insight and Joel Selvin's Altamont is exactly that kind of book. Formally and ...

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 ...

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 ...