Fifty years ago, on Dec. 6, 1969 — "rock ‘n’ roll's all-time worst day… a day when everything went perfectly wrong,” according to Rolling Stone magazine — one of the greatest tragedies in music ...

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 ...

Trouble was just a shot away for Mick Jagger in the early 1970s. After the Rolling Stones’ free concert in Altamont, California ended in a tragic death in late 1969, the rocker was plagued with fear ...

Previously unreleased footage from the 1969 Altamont Speedway Free Festival has been released by the Library of Congress. The concert holds a notorious place in history. More than 300,000 people ...

Recordings from the 1969 concert and interviews with those who were there reveal how the festival became a scene of chaos, violence and death. Episode 2 brings you inside the concert and a day many ...

The Rolling Stones perform "Gimme Shelter" at the Altamont Speedway in California. (1969 File Photo/The Associated Press) “Rock and roll’s all-time worst day, December 6th.” So wrote John Burks in ...

The free concert was supposed to be a celebration marking the end of the group's 1969 U.S. tour. But instead, it turned into chaos. At Altamont, How 'Woodstock West' Turned Into 'Rock's Darkest Day' ...

EXCLUSIVE: Gimme Shelter, directed by Albert and David Maysles and Charlotte Zwein, is widely considered one of the greatest music documentaries of all time. The film, which chronicled the Rolling ...

The music died 50 years ago Friday. The crazy thing is how close it came Sears Point Raceway. The music died 50 years ago Friday. The crazy thing is how close it came to dying in our arms, at the ...

Was it the man in the blue shirt with the mustache and sideburns holding up the small, three-lens movie camera? Was it the guy with curly brown hair and a tan shirt aiming a black camera at the ...