A day that should have seen one of the world’s biggest bands put on the Woodstock of the East. Instead, anarchy ensued. We remember the gig that ended in the loss of life and the counterculture.

Joel Selvin, music critic and Altamont writer

Langdon Winner, contributing writer to the significant Rolling Stone article on Altamont

Bill Owens, photographer of the carnage

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