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Mick Jagger, top photo, sings at the Altamont Rock Festival at Livermore, Calif., in this Dec. 6, 1969 file photo while Hells Angels cross stage during melee to help fellow motorcyclists. At the bottom Jagger looks at the motorcyclists after they dragged onstage an unidentified person whom they mauled during the concert. A program to be broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on Monday March 3, 2008 says the rock star was the target of an assassination plot hatched in 1969 by the Hells Angels following a purported dispute with the motorcycle gang over concert security. (AP Photo)

Hell's Angels Plotted To Kill Mick Jagger

March 2, 2008 06:02 PM EST | AP

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LONDON — Rolling Stones singer Mick Jagger escaped an assassination plot hatched in 1969 by the Hells Angels, a new British Broadcasting Corp. documentary has claimed.

A program to be broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on Monday says the rock star was the target of the plot following a purported dispute with the motorcycle gang over concert security.

Jagger had vowed not to use Hells Angel members as bouncers following the death in December 1969 of an 18-year-old fan at a notorious free performance at Altamont Speedway in Northern California.

In return, gang members hatched a plan to kill Jagger at his holiday home in Long Island, New York, the BBC claimed.

"The Hells Angels were so angered by Jagger's treatment of them that they decided to kill him," Tom Mangold, the presenter of the program, was quoted as telling Britain's Sunday Telegraph newspaper.

He said the plan was disclosed during an interview with Mark Young, a former FBI officer, for the BBC's "The FBI at 100" documentary.

Mangold said the men tried to reach Jagger by sea. "The boat was hit by a storm and all of the men were thrown overboard," he was quoted as saying. They all survived but made no other attempt on his life, Mangold said.

It was not clear whether Jagger was ever informed of the alleged plot against him.

LD Communications, Jagger's publicists in Britain, did not immediately return calls requesting comment.

The Hells Angels have always denied any connection with the Altamont Speedway killing.


 

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collapse HonestGirl See Profile I'm a Fan of HonestGirl

....................Dramamine.................

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 11:07 PM on 03/03/2008
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Awesome.

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 06:44 PM on 03/03/2008
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Ha ha ha. The Angels tried to play Navy Seals and the op did not go 'swimmingly'...

The Angels had a very effective drug distribution system in the 80s. The CIA used them for intelligence gathering and even some of their domestic operations (the CIA is not supposed to operate inside the country so historically they have used proxies, like the mafia in the 60's), and in return they let them run their drug traffic, sometimes even 'aiding and abetting' them according to DEA whistleblowers. That tit for tat made them a prominent distributor, since they had the kind of protection their competition could not get. This was documented at the time, and very embarrassing to the CIA. I don't know what they're up to these days. Probably taking swimming lessons.

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 04:47 PM on 03/03/2008
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Aparently that collusion didn't help Sonny Barger and co... Probably became irrelevent compared to the burgeoning crack cocaine sales that were being done for Ollie North and Ron Reagan - I noticed that when Eugene Hasenfus (sp?) was shot down in Nicaragua his flight log showed many flights to the Contras with guns and allegedly many flights back with cocaine. However, nobody seemed to ask the hard questions about how much cocaine was flown into the US with that operation alone and how much of that made it to the inner city streets.... I think the San Jose Mercury news took on an expose regarding the CIA and drug running... of course, nobody is ever accountabile in the end for any crime in government unless its politically expedient.

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 06:50 PM on 03/03/2008
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You mean he is still alive? Keef too?

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 04:44 PM on 03/03/2008
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Just goes to show that everybody has something to contribute.

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 03:29 PM on 03/03/2008
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He hoped to die before he got old, anyway...

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 02:21 PM on 03/03/2008
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Actually that was The Who.

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 07:57 PM on 03/03/2008
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This is news????? It's been known for decades that the Hell's Angels wanted Jagger whacked. Man, slow news day?

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 01:51 PM on 03/03/2008
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That's a crying shame they missed.

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 01:47 PM on 03/03/2008
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So lemme get this, a bunch of loser bikers try to chase down a guy and kill him but fall overboard in a boat as they attempt to storm his house ala Normandy?

Isn"t this from Every Which Way but Loose?

"I"ma gonna git you Philo Beddoe Jagger!"

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 01:01 PM on 03/03/2008
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That's funny. The Angels are no joke. They'll kill someone at the drop of a hat. They call it, "takin care of business." They could never get to Jagger anyhow. He's too rich and well guarded.

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 01:54 PM on 03/03/2008
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Those plotters have all died of old age anyway so Mick can probably breathe a sigh of relief now.

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 12:15 PM on 03/03/2008
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I smell a sitcom: "Let's Kill Mick Jagger"

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 11:28 AM on 03/03/2008
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MajorKong-

It was the suggestion of the Grateful Dead to use the Angels for security. They had been around the Angels since their beginning in 1965 but the idea to use them at Altamont surely haunted them forever.
Mick also blamed them for the killing since they "brought" the Angels for security.

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 11:05 AM on 03/03/2008
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It was the Stones tour manager - Sam Cutler - who suggested using the Hell's Angels for security at Altamont. The Stones had used a few "wannabe" U.K. Hell's Angels at their Hyde park concert in the summer of 69, and Cutler felt they were representative of the U.S. Hell's Angels. Sam Cutler asked Rock Skully to "extend" an invitation to the Hell's Angels to guard the equipment at Altamont and that somehow expanded into them providing security and sitting on stage. Stanley Goldstein clears this up in the audio commentary on the Gimme Shelter DVD.

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 02:09 AM on 03/04/2008
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The Dead denounced the Angels, and told them they didn't want any more dealings with them. In all fairness, the Angels had never done something like that, out in the open.
Jagger said he never again perform Sympathy For The Devil again, since it was the song playing when the murder took place. Another point to consider, was the guy had a gun, and was pointing it toward the stage.

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 01:58 PM on 03/03/2008
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Exactly right.

If anyone watches the Stones concert film "Gimme Shelter" they will actually see the 18 yr old who got stabbed as he waves A PISTOL around in a crowd and swings it at the stage a couple times from about 25 feet. People ran out of the way and one Hells Angels guy jumped the kid and stabbed him downward through the shoulder and into his chest.

The whole thing would have quite a different poignancy if the gun had fired a few times and several innocent concert-goers and maybe a Stone or two had been shot to death.

Moral of the story: do not bring guns to concerts.

LONG LIVE THE ROLLING STONES!

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 02:12 PM on 03/03/2008
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Some friends dropped by my apartment that morning and invited me to come along to the concert. I stayed home with some purple barrel acid and a steaming pot of brown rice. I missed a lot of history that way, but I don't regret it.

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 06:49 PM on 03/03/2008
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Ah, the unexamined life is not worth living, no? I have spent alot of time exploring my inner cosmology.

Take a trip and never leave the farm!!

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 02:31 PM on 03/05/2008
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Flash! Dewey wins election!

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 10:54 AM on 03/03/2008
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Who's bright idea was it to hire the Hell's Angels for security in the first place?

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 10:13 AM on 03/03/2008
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"Hells Angels have always denied any connection with the Altamont Speedway killing.'

Huh? Is BBC in need of an editor?
How could the Hells Angles deny any connection? It is right there on film for anyone to see. And they went to trial for it. Where the film of them attacking and stabbing the man was shown.

Declared not guilty of murder which is what happened back then when you killed black people.
But how can they "deny any connection?"

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 10:03 AM on 03/03/2008
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According to Sonny Barger, himself, "an American legend" in his memior, "Hell's Angel : the life and times of Sonny Barger and the Hell's Angels Motorcycle club" claims that if you watch "Gimmie Shelter" in the stabbing scene all involved weren't wearing HAMC colors. Their jackets only disclosed chapter affiliation. Sonny also talked about this on a History Channel documentary. Why would Sonny lie? He beat a RICO rap, anyone who beats the man must be a sterling character.

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 11:33 PM on 03/03/2008
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That's because they were prospects.

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 10:56 AM on 03/04/2008
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The black guy had a gun, pointing at the stage. I guess black guys with guns at shows is acceptable these days.

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 02:08 PM on 03/03/2008
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The man did have a gun. He was waiving it around, and that's why he got stabbed. I am not saying that makes it right, but it does supply a little motive for the killing.

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 02:00 PM on 03/03/2008
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What do you mean "how can they"?
They open their mouths and say it.
It's called lying.
The press doesn't bother with poiting out lies.
King George W said Iraq was involved with 9/11, too.

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 11:10 AM on 03/03/2008
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Sonny Barger , not Berger

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 08:57 AM on 03/03/2008
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Thank you for the correction.

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 11:17 AM on 03/03/2008
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Don't these elderly gentlemen of Rock'n Roll have enough money? Every time they have an upcoming tour, new record and/or book, new movie, etc we are flooded with all kinds of items to pique our interest. Retirement anyone?

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 08:36 AM on 03/03/2008
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If you don't like them, don't buy their music. It's pretty simple, and it's also called free speech.

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 02:02 PM on 03/03/2008
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Last Century?? How quaint. Unless you're 7 years old or under, you're ALL so.....Last Century. Oh wait, you probably are all under 7.

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 07:22 AM on 03/03/2008
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Looking at the photo....Mic looks like he's burping after eating the guy who came to collect on the contract.

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 04:03 AM on 03/03/2008
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Anyone who's ever had a conversation with anyone who's done time in the California prison system already knew this.

At the Altamont concert, Sonny Berger put a gun to Keith Richards head and told him to keep playing. That was one of the things you could hear Jagger yelling about, while the camera is pointed toward the brawl in the audience, the one that left a guy stabbed to death.

Hey, quick trivia, anyone know what song was playing when all hell broke loose (no pun)?

Ah, what the heck. It was "under my thumb". But, everyone thinks it's was Gimme Shelter, per the title of the film. Everytime I hear Under My Thumb now it just sounds eerie. I swear I can hear the guy screaming for his life, even in the studio version.

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 01:53 AM on 03/03/2008
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Actually, it was Sympathy for the Devil. Jagger said he will never perform that song again.

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 02:05 PM on 03/03/2008
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I've always heard it was under my thumb.

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 06:36 PM on 03/03/2008
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Watch the video of the concert. I could be mistaken, but I'm pretty sure it was Sympathy for the Devil.

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 12:20 PM on 03/04/2008
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I've gone back and watched Gimme Shelter and looked at all the still photos ( and theres tons) I could find online of Altamont. Nowhere can Barger be seen holding a gun to Keith or anybody elses head. In Bargers book he shows a photo of him standing behind Richards and claims he was holding a gun to Richard's ribs. Given Richards behavior at this time it doesn't seem in character for him to have tolerated this but who knows for sure.

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 10:43 AM on 03/03/2008
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MICK IS SO LAST CENTURY AND IF THEY WANTED HIM DEAD, HE MOST LIKELY WOULD BE.

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 12:57 AM on 03/03/2008
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Is this another conspiracy theory?

favoriteFavorite Flag as abusive Posted 12:18 AM on 03/03/2008