On Dec. 6, 1969, the Altamont Free Concert put a cap on the sixties, literally and figuratively. The Northern California music festival was to be the West Coast equivalent of Woodstock in spirit ...

After the Rolling Stones’ free concert in Altamont, California ended in a tragic death in late 1969, the rocker was plagued with fear that amid a turning tide of public opinion, he may be next.

That didn’t happen at Astroworld, now destined to be remembered as Gen Z’s own version of Altamont, the notorious 1969 free concert outside San Francisco headlined by the Rolling Stones (and ...

to the colosally disastrous Altamont Free Concert. Taking place just four months after Woodstock, Altamont was as brutal as the former was peaceful, with fatally over-zealous security provided by ...