3. In August 1969, the three-day Woodstock Music & Art Fair had proved that hundreds of thousands of young people could gather peacefully environment with sex, drugs, rock and roll everywhere. That idea was proven in the violent, uncontrolled chaos of the disastrous Altamont Speedway Free Festival, held on this day in 1969 in the northern California hills 60 miles east of San Francisco.

4. Mick Jagger and the Rolling Stones were a big hit at the concert. They were concluding a very successful U.S. tour, and Jagger said they wanted to organize a free concert as a “Christmas and Hanukkah gift to American youth.” Then the Stones made the decision to “hire” the Hells Angels to be their security force at the concert. This security arrangement with the Hells Angels was a very loose affair. The motorcycle gang made it clear they were not cops and would never play the role of law enforcement. However, when the Stones offered them $500 worth of beer just to sit on the edge of the stage and party all through the concert, simply making sure no one pushed past them to rush the performers, the Angels heartily agreed.

5. Hells Angels Security Rolling stones Woodstock Poster

6. The Rolling Stones.

7. Keith Richards is still alive at the age of 68. Mick Taylor is still alive at the age of 63. Ron Wood is still alive at the age of 65. Mick Jagger is still alive at the age of 69. Charlie Watts is still alive at the age of 71. Brian Jones died at the age of 27: suicide. Bill Wyman is still alive at the age of 76.

8. www.wikipedia.org www.imdb.com http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLddJ1Wce HQ

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