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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.
Thorogood allegedly confessed the murder to the Rolling Stones' driver Tom Keylock, [75] who later denied this. [76] The Thorogood theory was dramatised in the 2005 film Stoned. [77] Thorogood is alleged to have killed Jones in a fight over money; he had been paid £18,000 for work on Cotchford Farm but he wanted another £6,000. [78]
After the Ramones perform a disdainful rendition of "Happy Birthday To You", and employee Homer Simpson performs a loutish, derisive stand-up routine, Burns becomes infuriated, ordering Smithers to have the Ramones killed (mistakenly calling them the Rolling Stones) and has his security guards break up the party.
This is an accepted version of this page This is the latest accepted revision, reviewed on 7 February 2025. English rock band This article is about the band. For the magazine, see Rolling Stone. For other uses, see Rolling Stone (disambiguation). The Rolling Stones The Rolling Stones performing at Summerfest in Milwaukee in June 2015. Left to right: Charlie Watts, Ronnie Wood, Mick Jagger, and ...
Listen: The Rolling Stones have long been in uncharted territory, keeping a band going for longer than anyone ever imagined possible. There’s simply no blueprint for being a rock n' roll group ...
Monument at the crash site of the airplane carrying Buddy Holly, The Big Bopper, and Ritchie Valens; "The Day the Music Died".. The following is a list of notable performers of rock and roll music or rock music, and others directly associated with the music as producers, songwriters or in other closely related roles, who have died.
He had never missed a single concert throughout his career with the band. Besides Jagger and Richards, he is the only member to have appeared on every album in the Rolling Stones discography. [24] In October 2023, two years after Watts's death, the Rolling Stones released Hackney Diamonds. The album features two songs on which Watts plays the ...
The band name is a portmanteau of deceased Rolling Stones founder and guitarist Brian Jones – a key figure in introducing Eastern influences into Western rock in the late Sixties – and the 1978 incident at cult leader Jim Jones' self-dubbed "Jonestown" settlement in Guyana where over 900 of his followers died in a mass murder-suicide known as the Jonestown Massacre.