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In the United States and Canada, the Hells Angels are incorporated as the Hells Angels Motorcycle Corporation. Common nicknames for the club are the "H.A.", "Red & White", and "81". [ 10 ] With a membership of over 6,000, and 592 charters in 66 countries, the HAMC is the largest "outlaw" motorcycle club in the world.
By some accounts, the Hells Angels were hired as security by the management of the Rolling Stones, on the recommendation of the Grateful Dead and Jefferson Airplane (who both had previously used the Angels for security at performances without incident), [21] [22] for $500 worth of beer. This story has been denied by some parties who were ...
By 1960, the Oakland Hells Angels had established an extensive narcotics network within the club. [21] Some of Barger's rules included "no using dope during a meeting" and "no drug burns" (rip-offs). [22] The Hells Angels worked as "part-time distributors" of drugs in the 1950s and early 1960s. [22]
Sonny Barger, the leather-clad fixture of 1960s counterculture and figurehead of the Hells Angels motorcycle club who was at the notorious Rolling Stones concert at Altamont Speedway, has died.
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 ...
1950s-1960s Montreal, Quebec: Absorbed by the Hells Angels in 1977 to become the first Hells Angels Motorcycle Club chapter in Canada. [139] [140] [141] Rebels: 1969 Brisbane, Australia Originally known as the Confederates, this outlaw OMCG has 70-something chapters worldwide and is the largest in Australia. Rebels: 1968 Red Deer, Alberta, Canada
Clash between the two clubs at a Hells Angels-sponsored "Hell raiser Ball"in Plainview, New York on February 23, 2002, resulted in the arrest of 73 Pagans and 2 Angels, one biker was killed and 10 injured. [69] [70] Hells Angels recruit Pagans to form a chapter in Philadelphia in 2004, resulting in the conflict flaring up between the two groups ...
The Hells Angels was founded in the 1940s in Fontana, but Barger formed the Oakland chapter in April 1957. He became the club’s national president, its most visible and voluble figure.