The Angels, The Stones and The Dead
2/6/202639 min
In the final days of the Sixties, The Rolling Stones join forces with other rock legends to plan a free concert at Altamont Speedway that will rival Woodstock. The "bad boys of rock" don't have the warmest relationship with the police, so they choose another option for security: The Hells Angels. They're both anti-establishment, they're both counterculture: what could possibly go wrong?
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First 90 secondsJuju Chang0:00
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Tim Harford· Host0:36
[pensive music] Pushkin. [upbeat rock music] The 1960s are mythologized as a decade of peace and love, but peace and love definitely wasn't the vibe outside The Beatles' London offices. The genteel calm of Savile Row was shattered by the unfamiliar rumble of powerful motorcycle engines. [motorcycle engines revving] And sitting astride these souped-up Harley-Davidsons are a dozen American Hells Angels, pulling up at the Apple Records building well in time for The Beatles' 1968