Joel Selvin

Joel Selvin is the author of numerous books about popular music and American culture, the most recent of which is Altamont: The Rolling Stones, the Hell’s Angels, and the Inside Story of Rock’s Darkest Day, which was published in August.

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How Altamont Cursed The Rolling Stones

The free concert festival put on by the Stones outside San Francisco was poorly planned, hastily thrown together, and heedlessly run. The tragedy forever haunts the band.

Joel Selvin