Dec 6, 1969
The Rolling Stones played at the infamous free concert festival in Altamont, California. Security was provided by the Hell's Angels motorcycle club. Angels stabbed one man to death, another man drowned, two other men were killed in hit-and-run accidents, and two babies were born.
Now
that's a party.
2013
The electric guitar played by Bob Dylan at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival was sold at auction in New York for a record $965,000. The Fender Stratocaster had been in the possession of a New Jersey family for 48 years after Dylan left it on a private plane.