Gimme Shelter (1970) on Netflix
NR19701h 32mDocumentaryMusic
The Rolling Stones spend the last weeks of 1969 touring the United States with a camera crew. A free concert at the Altamont Speedway is arranged, with the Hells Angels as security.
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In 1969 a film crew follows the Rolling Stones through the closing weeks of their American tour. The band plays Madison Square Garden, where Ike and Tina Turner open the show, and records "Brown Sugar" and "Wild Horses" in a Muscle Shoals studio in Alabama. The crew was first engaged for 30 to 45 minutes of footage toward a possible television special, and the filming grew as the band agreed to a Florida festival and then a free show in San Francisco, with studio days in between. Much of the film stays with the deal-making behind a free concert at the Altamont Speedway, including telephone negotiations by the attorney Melvin Belli with the speedway's management, and the Hells Angels are engaged as security.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Gimme Shelter (1970)
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A cameraman unwittingly filmed Hells Angel Alan Passaro stabbing Meredith Hunter at the Altamont concert. The city of San Francisco agreed to drop potential charges against the Rolling Stones in exchange for a copy of the footage and charged Passaro with murder; he was acquitted, jurors seeing Hunter, whose autopsy revealed methamphetamine, as the aggressor.- A young George Lucas was among the credited camera operators at the Altamont concert, but his camera jammed after about two and a half minutes of film and none of his footage made the final cut.
