This past Saturday marked the 45th anniversary of the Rolling Stones’ concert at the Altamont Speedway. The chaotic scene ended in multiple injuries, four accidental deaths including hit-and-run accidents and a drowning as well as the stabbing murder of Meredith Hunter.
Characterized as a kind-of anti-Woodstock, the Altamont Free Concert is now a symbol for the end of the idealism of the 1960′s and the dark side of rock ‘n’ roll that the Stones have always seemed to exemplify. Here is Albert and David Maysles definitive chronicling of the concert…
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