Gimme Shelter
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- Rolling Stones
- In the Rolling Stones: Documentaries, later music, and awards
Most notably, Gimme Shelter (1970) by David Maysles, Albert Maysles, and Charlotte Zwerin covers the group’s infamous 1969 tour and Altamont Speedway concert. In the wake of the group’s well-received album A Bigger Bang (2005), director Martin Scorsese, long a fan of the group, focused less on…
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- Lucas
- In George Lucas: Early life and work
…a portion of the documentary Gimme Shelter (1970), about the violent Rolling Stones concert at the 1969 Altamont Festival, for Albert and David Maysles and Charlotte Zwerin.
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- Maysles brothers
- In Albert and David Maysles
…four door-to-door Bible salesmen, and Gimme Shelter (1970), which covered the 1969 Rolling Stones U.S. tour and focused especially on the disastrous Altamont concert near Livermore, California, at which a spectator was killed by a member of the Hells Angels motorcycle gang who had been hired to provide security. Both…
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- In Albert and David Maysles