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MUG_0014 Officially Licensed Rolling Stones Merchandise
Rolling Stones Electric Tongue Coffee Mug
The release of Let It Bleed (UK number 1; US 3) came in December. Their last album of the Sixties, Let It Bleed featured "Gimme Shelter", "You Can't Always Get What You Want", "Midnight Rambler", as well as a cover of Robert Johnson's "Love in Vain".
Many of these numbers were played during the band's US tour in November 1969, their first in three years.
Just after the tour the band also staged the Altamont Free Concert, at the Altamont Speedway, about 60km east of San Francisco.
The biker gang Hells Angels provided security, which resulted in a fan, Meredith Hunter, being stabbed and beaten to death by the Angels.
Part of the tour and the Altamont concert were documented in Albert and David Maysles' film Gimme Shelter. As a response to the growing popularity of bootleg recordings, the album Get Yer Ya-Yas Out! (UK 1; US 6) was released in 1970; it was declared by critic Lester Bangs to be the best live album ever.
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