Rolling Stone Revisits Altamont Festival Coverage
Sharing more rich history in honor of the publication's 50th anniversary
The second installment of “Rolling Stone at 50,” an ongoing series of articles marking the magazine’s 1967-2007 span, is all about Woodstock and Altamont. David Browne’s look-back is a powerful and vivid reminder of an earlier era.
A small group of reporters from San Francisco, where Rolling Stone was then based, had traveled to upstate New York to cover Woodstock in August of 1969. Four months later and back home on the California coast, the bureau was eager to blanket the Altamont Speedway Free Festival.
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