The Angels, The Stones and The Dead
Cautionary Tales with Tim Harford
Pushkin Industries
4.7 • 6.4K Ratings
🗓️ 6 February 2026
⏱️ 43 minutes
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Summary
In the final days of the Sixties, The Rolling Stones join forces with other rock legends to plan a free concert at Altamont Speedway that will rival Woodstock. The "bad boys of rock" don't have the warmest relationship with the police, so they choose another option for security: The Hells Angels. They're both anti-establishment, they're both counterculture: what could possibly go wrong?
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| 1:11.2 | The 1960s are mythologised as a decade of peace and love, but peace and love definitely wasn't |
| 1:31.4 | the vibe outside the Beatles' London offices. |
| 1:35.6 | The genteel calm of Saville Roe was shattered by the unfamiliar rumble of powerful motorcycle |
| 1:42.7 | engines. |
| 1:45.0 | And sitting astride these souped-up Harley-Davidson's |
| 1:48.6 | are a dozen American Hells Angels, |
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