Mick Jagger Hells Angels Murder Plot – A BBC documentary claims the Hells Angels plotted to murder Mick Jagger in 1969 after being angered by his remarks about the Altamont concert security fiasco.
According to ex-FBI agent Mark Young, the Mick Jagger Hells Angels murder plot developed from bad blood over Jagger’s vow never to use the Hells Angels for security again after 18-year old Meredith Hunter was stabbed to death right in front of the stage at the Altamont concert on December 6, 1969.
In an interview for the BBC’s “The FBI at 100″ documentary, former agent Mark Young detailed the Mick Jagger assassination plot as a seaborne assault by several Hells Angels members targeting Jagger at the singer’s Long Island estate.
“The Hells Angels were so angered by Jagger’s treatment of them that they decided to kill him,” said Tom Mangold, the presenter of the BBC program.
“The boat was hit by a storm and all of the men were thrown overboard,” ex-FBI agent Mark Young says in the documentary. The Hells Angels all survived, but apparently made no other attempt on Mick Jagger’s life.
The death of Meredith Hunter (pictured above in a green suit) was the climactic moment of the rock documentary Gimme Shelter. The Hells Angels motorcycle gang was angered by Jagger’s refusal to believe they acted in his defense after Hunter brandished a gun and loudly proclaimed he was going to “kill Jagger”.
The Hells Angels security at Altamont was so crazy that earlier in the day they knocked Marty Balin, the Jefferson Airplane’s lead singer, unconscious with a pool cue during the Airplane’s performance.
Mick Jagger & Hells Angels at Altamont – Video Clips
Footage of the the Hell’s Angels working security at The Stones concert at Altamont Speedway in December 1969. As Jagger sings “Sympathy for The Devil”, the whole atmsophere is surreally chaotic, then quickly descends into murder.
Rolling Stones Hells Angels Murder at Altamont
This video clip from “Gimme Shelter” shows Hunter’s murder, but it also proves that Hunter had brandished a gun – either in his own defense in the sea of chaos in front of the stage or in the threatened murder of Mick Jagger that the Hells Angels claimed – just before being stabbed to death.
Gimme Shelter Video – Meredith Hunter Had A Gun
Hells Angels member Alan Passaro was charged with the murder of Meredith Hunter, but was found not guilty on a plea of self defense.
And that’s the latest news on the Mick Jagger Hells Angels murder plot.
Tags: altamont, hells angels, meredith hunter, mick jagger, rolling stones
March 2nd, 2008 at 2:48 pm
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March 3rd, 2008 at 1:29 pm
Picture of Mick Jagger and Hells Angels at Altamont
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 broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on 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.
March 6th, 2008 at 5:16 pm
They’re lucky Keith Richards wasn’t there because he would’ve busted em upside the head with a beer bottle like he did that guy onstage…
April 15th, 2009 at 9:50 am
Good thing they didn’t get Mick!
August 14th, 2009 at 8:02 am
I guess Meridith must have forseen something because he had a gun on him. How niave of him. A black man brings a white woman to a Rolling Stones Concert with Hell’s Angels as attendants. This was a recipe for disaster. Very sad.
Clearly Meridith for defending himself. He was attacked earlier and only pulled that gun in the final attack on him. I wonder if the killer has any remorse now 40 years later. I wonder if he is even alive.
August 16th, 2009 at 1:03 am
I was there at the concert. That was the most stupid thing a band or group could have done. I was a little further back during the concert as we were just below the towers where the hassel had started of dudes clinmimg the scaffolds and both biker clubs were attempting to get people down when they said ”
The
Angles wouldn’t let him do that and he went up the side of the scaffold with knife. It was crazy that weekend we had totry to catch a ride from truckers stacking people on their truck beds. We had to hike and hitch 10 miles just to get in. It will always be with us.
December 22nd, 2009 at 4:19 am
I’m 64. I was born and raised in East Oakland, California in Ralph “Sonny” Barger’s neighborhood, and I’m very familiar with the antics of the hells angels. I was at Altamont, and all I can say is;
The BEST hells angel
Is a DEAD hells angel
RIP Meredith
April 11th, 2010 at 9:25 pm
Gayle – no the killer, Alan Passaro, is not alive today. He was found dead floating in the Anderson Reservoir, near Morgan Hills, CA, with $10,000 in his pocket on March 29, 1985. (Age 36) His apartment looked as if he had been abducted.
August 16th, 2010 at 11:52 pm
Where did you find the story? I tried to get some additional details about it, but I wasn’t able to.