In this breathtaking cultural history filled with exclusive, never-before-revealed details, celebrated rock journalist Joel Selvin tells the definitive story of the Rolling Stones’ infamous Altamont concert, the disastrous historic event that marked the end of the idealistic 1960s.
In the annals of rock history, the Altamont Speedway Free Festival on December 6, 1969, has long been seen as the distorted twin of Woodstock—the day that shattered the Sixties’ promise of peace and love when a concertgoer was killed by a member of the Hells Angels, the notorious biker club acting as security. While most people know of the events from the film Gimme Shelter, the whole story has remained buried in varied accounts, rumor, and myth—until now.
Altamont explores rock’s darkest day, a fiasco that began well before the climactic death of Meredith Hunter and continued beyond that infamous December night. Joel Selvin probes every aspect of the show—from the Stones’ hastily planned tour preceding the concert to the bad acid that swept through the audience to other deaths that also occurred that evening—to capture the full scope of the tragedy and its aftermath. He also provides an in-depth look at the Grateful Dead’s role in the events leading to Altamont, examining the band’s behind-the-scenes presence in both arranging the show and hiring the Hells Angels as security.
The product of twenty years of exhaustive research and dozens of interviews with many key players, including medical staff, Hells Angels members, the stage crew, and the musicians who were there, and featuring sixteen pages of color photos, Altamont is the ultimate account of the final event in rock’s formative and most turbulent decade.

Altamont: The Rolling Stones, the Hells Angels, and the Inside Story of Rock's Darkest Day

Selvin, Joel

Humor & Entertainment

Dey Street Books

In this breathtaking cultural history filled with exclusive, never-before-revealed details, celebrated rock journalist Joel Selvin tells the definitive story of the Rolling Stones’ infamous Altamont concert, the disastrous historic event that marked the end of the idealistic 1960s.
In the annals of rock history, the Altamont Speedway Free Festival on December 6, 1969, has long been seen as the distorted twin of Woodstock—the day that shattered the Sixties’ promise of peace and love when a concertgoer was killed by a member of the Hells Angels, the notorious biker club acting as security. While most people know of the events from the film Gimme Shelter, the whole story has remained buried in varied accounts, rumor, and myth—until now.
Altamont explores rock’s darkest day, a fiasco that began well before the climactic death of Meredith Hunter and continued beyond that infamous December night. Joel Selvin probes every aspect of the show—from the Stones’ hastily planned tour preceding the concert to the bad acid that swept through the audience to other deaths that also occurred that evening—to capture the full scope of the tragedy and its aftermath. He also provides an in-depth look at the Grateful Dead’s role in the events leading to Altamont, examining the band’s behind-the-scenes presence in both arranging the show and hiring the Hells Angels as security.
The product of twenty years of exhaustive research and dozens of interviews with many key players, including medical staff, Hells Angels members, the stage crew, and the musicians who were there, and featuring sixteen pages of color photos, Altamont is the ultimate account of the final event in rock’s formative and most turbulent decade.

ALTAMONT

HarperEnt

Fare Thee Well

Hachette Books

A tell-all biography of the epic in-fighting of the Grateful Dead in the years following band leader Jerry Garcia's death in 1995.The Grateful Dead rose to greatness under the inspired leadership of guitarist Jerry Garcia, but the band very nearly died along with him. When Garcia passed away suddenly in August of 1995, the remaining band members experienced full crises of confidence and identity. So long defined by Garcia's vision for the group, the surviving "Core Four," as they came to be called, were reduced to conflicting agendas, strained relationships, and catastrophic business decisions that would leave the iconic band in utter disarray. Wrestling with how best to define their living legacy, the band made many attempts at restructuring, but it would take twenty years before relationships were mended enough for the Grateful Dead as fans remembered them to once again take the stage. Acclaimed music journalist and New York Times bestselling author Joel Selvin was there for much of the turmoil following Garcia's death, and he offers a behind-the-scenes account of the ebbs and flows that occurred during the ensuing two decades. Plenty of books have been written about the rise of the Grateful Dead, but this final chapter of the band's history has never before been explored in detail. Culminating in the landmark tour bearing the same name, Fare Thee Well charts the arduous journey from Garcia's passing all the way up to the uneasy agreement between the Core Four that led to the series of shows celebrating the band's fiftieth anniversary and finally allowing for a proper, and joyous, sendoff of the group revered by so many.

Fare Thee Well: The Final Chapter of the Grateful Dead's Long, Strange Trip

Da Capo Press

Product Description 
A tell-all biography of the epic in-fighting of the Grateful Dead in the years following band leader Jerry Garcia's death in 1995\nThe Grateful Dead rose to greatness under the inspired leadership of guitarist Jerry Garcia, but the band very nearly died along with him after his sudden death in 1995. So long defined by Garcia's artistic vision, the surviving "Core Four" were reduced to conflicting agendas, strained relationships, and catastrophic business decisions that would lead the iconic band into utter disarray for the next twenty years.\nAcclaimed music journalist and 
New York Times bestselling author Joel Selvin was there for much of the turmoil following Garcia's death, and in this book 
, he offers a never-before-explored insider account of the ebbs and flows that occurred in the decades that followed. Culminating in the landmark tour bearing the same name, 
Fare Thee Well charts the arduous journey from Garcia's passing all the way up to the uneasy agreement between the Core Four that led to the series of shows celebrating the band's fiftieth anniversary-finally allowing for a proper, and joyous, sendoff of the group revered by so many. 
 Review 
"This phenomenon after its leader dies and how and what it became is a great and inspiring story."-- 
Marty Balin, founder of Jefferson Airplane\n"A deep--and deeply reported--dive into the highs and lows of the Grateful Dead world post-1995, 
Fare Thee Well is the in-depth postscript we need on life after Garcia. As the surviving members navigate their jarring new world, you'll be shocked, surprised, and unexpectedly moved."-- 
David Browne, author of 
So Many Roads: The Life and Times of the Grateful Dead\n" 
Fare Thee Well is a masterful summation of the agonies, trials, and tribulations that beset the Grateful Dead after Jerry Garcia passed away. It made me sigh with sorrow AND give thanks (virtually simultaneously) for such a gifted group of musicians. This book will appeal to every Deadhead on the planet. I loved it." 
-- 
Sam Cutler, author of 
You Can't Always Get What You Want: My Life with the Rolling Stones, the Grateful Dead, and Other Wonderful Reprobates\n"As always, Joel Selvin boldly goes where others fear to tread. 
Fare Thee Well is essential reading for all those who have followed the saga of the good old Grateful Dead to this point in time."-- 
Robert Greenfield, author of 
Dark Star: An Oral Biography of Jerry Garcia and 
Bear: The Life and Times of Augustus Owsley Stanley III\n" 
Fare Thee Well tells the tale of how the Deadheads rescued the Grateful Dead from themselves. Bereft of their heart leader after Jerry Garcia died in 1995, the love of Deadheads kept the music alive so that the phenomena is not merely enduring but growing 
--long, strange, and still a trip."-- 
Dennis McNally, author of 
A Long, Strange Trip: The Inside History of the Grateful Dead\n"I felt like the child of a divorce, but this book showed me I never needed to worry, not when I was under the power of something as great as the Grateful Dead."-- 
Steve Parish, author of 
Home Before Daylight: My Life on the Road with the Grateful Dead\n"A hundred years from now, Jerry Garcia may be remembered as a prophet and Bob, Mickey, Phil, and Billy as his disciples. Illuminating, astounding, and accurate, 
Fare Thee Well is a remarkable account of the successes and failures by the talented, individualist remaining members of the Grateful Dead since the death of their leader Jerry Garcia. I read it in one sitting."-- 
Steve Miller, founder of the Steve Miller Band\n"Most [Grateful Dead] books end with the 1995 death of Jerry Garcia. Fare Thee Well...takes the opposite approach...[it] examines every sad twist, turn, and betrayal involved in the Dead's various offshoot groups leading up to their 2015 Fare Thee Well reunion." 
― 
Rolling Stone\n"An unblinking and balanced look at the infighting, backbiting, rancor and resentments among the surviving 'core four' band members."― 
Paul

The never-before-told story of The Peppermint Lounge, the famed Manhattan nightspot and mobster hangout that launched an era
The Peppermint Lounge was intended to be nothing more than a front for gambling and other rackets but the club became a sensation after Dick "Cami" Camillucci began to feature a new kind of music, rock and roll. The mobsters running the place found themselves juggling rebellious youths alongside celebrities like Greta Garbo and Shirley MacLaine. When The Beatles visited the club, Cami's uncle-in-law had to restrain a hitman who was after Ringo because his girlfriend was so infatuated with the drummer.
Working with Dick Cami himself, Johnson and Selvin unveil this engrossing story of the go-go sixties and the club that inspired the classic hits "Twisting the Night Away" and "The Peppermint Twist."

Peppermint Twist: The Mob, the Music, and the Most Famous Dance Club of the '60s

Arts & Photography

Johnson Jr., John

Cami, Dick

Music

Thomas Dunne Books

"Sex, drugs, and rock 'n' roll" was the rallying cry for a movement in the late '60s and early '70s that changed American culture forever. Drawing on more than 200 interviews with all the major players, including Jerry Garcia, Grace Slick, Steve Miller, and David Crosby, Selvin has assembled the first complete history of the era--a virtual "Psychedelic Babylon." Photos.

Summer of Love: The Inside Story of LSD, Rock & Roll, Free Love and High Times

History

Plume

Monterey Pop: June 16-18, 1967

Monterey Pop

Random House Value Publishing

A pop music critic for the San Francisco Chronicle delivers a portrait of the music culture of the late 1960s and early 1970s, featuring the psychedelic experiences of the times and the stars that played a major part in it.

Summer of Love: The Inside Story of LSD, Rock & Roll, Free Love and High Times in the Wild

Dutton

Chronicles the private life of television's first child actor--from his celebrated youth through his slow descent into depression and addiction as a struggling adult, and to his untimely death

Ricky Nelson: Idol for a Generation

Contemporary Books

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Altamont: The Rolling Stones, the Hells Angels, and the Inside Story of Rock's Darkest Day

ALTAMONT

Fare Thee Well

Fare Thee Well: The Final Chapter of the Grateful Dead's Long, Strange Trip

Fare Thee Well

Peppermint Twist: The Mob, the Music, and the Most Famous Dance Club of the '60s

Summer of Love: The Inside Story of LSD, Rock & Roll, Free Love and High Times

Monterey Pop

Summer of Love: The Inside Story of LSD, Rock & Roll, Free Love and High Times in the Wild

Ricky Nelson: Idol for a Generation