Everybody had heard of The Rolling Stones, but until the day they played a free concert at the drag strip, nobody but hard-core auto-racing fans in Northern California had ever heard of Altamont. Even ...

Chris is an award-winning journalist with more than 20 years of experience in travel writing. He was named Travel Journalist of the Year at the 2024 Press Awards. In the course of his career, he has ...

More than three decades after the killing brought a dark cloud over the 1960s free-love era, Alameda County sheriff's investigators have shot down a theory that a second Hells Angel took part in the ...

Altamont has by now acquired the kind of dynastic weight that even the Rolling Stones, for all their grandiose posturing as they promoted the concert, could never have imagined. Today, when we talk ...

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 ...

It's easy to see the cataclysm as a symbol: of the end of the '60s, of the death of the counterculture, of the Woodstock generation's rude wake-up. The Dec. 6, 1969, Rolling Stones concert at Altamont ...

We glimpse him for approximately eight seconds. There he is, the wraith in the green suit and the black shirt, and all we know of him is what the immediate future holds. As the seconds tick, he will ...

Nearly 36 years after a slaying at a Rolling Stones concert at Altamont Speedway marked the end of the peace-and-love ’60s, investigators have closed the case, dismissing a theory that a second Hells ...