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Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books, St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
"If Woodstock tied the ideals of the '60s together, Altamont unraveled them. In Just a Shot Away, writer and critic Saul Austerlitz tells the story of "Woodstock West," where the Rolling Stones hoped to end their 1969 American tour triumphantly with the help of the Grateful Dead, the Jefferson Airplane, and 300,000 fans. Instead the concert featured a harrowing series of disasters, starting with the concert{u2019}s haphazard planning. The bad acid...