No problem. Marvin Belli, a flamboyant San Francisco lawyer, produced a last-minute saviour: Dick Carter, owner of something called the Altamont Speedway. 'Altamont was going to be Woodstock West ...

A free Rolling Stones concert turned violent melee that left four dead and many others injured, the Altamont Speedway Free Festival occurred 55 years ago today — a disaster that is often ...

A still from the documentary film 'Gimme Shelter', showing audience members looking on as Hells Angels beat a fan with pool cues at the Altamont Free Concert, Altamont Speedway, California, 6th ...

While attending an art show in Mokelumne Hill last month, San Andreas resident Catherine Brady-Brown suddenly became very interested in a random conversation that emerged about the then upcoming 55th ...

LIVERMORE, Calif. (UPI) --A stabbing death climaxed the Altamont free concert attended by hundreds of thousands of young persons in perhaps the biggest musical bash of all time at Altamont Speedway.

On Dec. 6, 1969, four people died at a Rolling Stones concert at the Altamont Speedway in Livermore, California. One of the victims was stabbed by a Hell’s Angel. In 1970, on the first ...