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Altamont: The Rolling Stones, the Hells Angels, and the Inside Story of Rock's Darkest Day
By Selvin, Joel
- ISBN
- 9780062444257 9780062444271
- Publisher
- Dey St: HarperCollins
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Reviewed on July 1, 2016 | Arts and Humanities
The Altamont festival of December 1969, a concert near San Francisco that featured the Rolling Stones and others, is often seen as a prime example of the darker side of the Sixties. Its chaotic and shambolic planning, vast quantities of dangerous drugs, and ultimately the stabbing death of a concertgoer, seared Altamont into one of rock's bleaker moments. Journalist and author Selvin's (Summer of Love) narrative histo...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
