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Meredith Curly Hunter Jr. (October 24, 1951 – December 6, 1969) was an American man who was killed at the 1969 Altamont Free Concert.During the performance by the Rolling Stones, Hunter approached the stage, and was driven off by members of the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club who were providing security and had agreed to prevent members of the audience from mounting the stage.
[9] Another follow-up piece in Rolling Stone called the Altamont event "rock and roll's all-time worst day". [12] In Esquire magazine, Ralph J. Gleason observed, "The day The Rolling Stones played there, the name [Altamont] became etched in the minds of millions of people who love pop music and who hate it as well. If the name 'Woodstock' has ...
Gimme Shelter is a 1970 American documentary film directed by Albert and David Maysles and Charlotte Zwerin chronicling the last weeks of the Rolling Stones' 1969 US tour which culminated in the disastrous Altamont Free Concert and the killing of Meredith Hunter. [2]
The film, which chronicled the Rolling Stones’ U.S. tour in 1969, culminating in the Altamont Free Concert in San Francisco, premiered 50 years ago this week and comes 51 years after the ...
Nearly a half-hour of unseen 8mm footage of the Rolling Stones, the Flying Burrito Brothers, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young and other artists performing at Altamont has been recovered by the Library ...
In “Summer of Soul (…Or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised),” which opened the Sundance Film Festival tonight on a note of heady historical exuberance, we see images from the 1969 ...
He appeared in the Albert and David Maysles documentary Gimme Shelter (1970), which featured his representation and facilitation of The Rolling Stones' staging of the disastrous December 6, 1969, Altamont Free Concert. In 1986 he played a criminal defense lawyer in an episode of the TV series Hunter titled "True Confessions". [4] [better source ...
The Rolling Stones "Gimme Shelter" London 4: October 26, 1969: December 5, 1969: Top Rock Tracks 1969 #9, from Let It Bleed - London 4. 10: Jethro Tull "Living in the Past" Island 6056: March 18, 1969: May 2, 1969: Top Rock Tracks 1969 #10, from Island single 6056. 11: The Rolling Stones "Midnight Rambler" London 4: March 11, 1969: December 5, 1969