![]() The Maysles’ crew (including a young George Lucas) may have captured riveting performances by the Stones and their tourmates Ike and Tina Turner, but the final film reads more like a psychological study of power. ![]() Needless to say, Gimme Shelter is only somewhat a concert movie. “A young black man murdered in the midst of a white crowd by white thugs as white men played their version of black music-it was too much to kiss off as a mere unpleasantness,” critic Greil Marcus later wrote, chillingly. The film was repeatedly offered as evidence during the 1971 trial. ![]() Passaro claimed self defense himself, and in a horrific tale as old as time, he was acquitted of Hunter’s murder soon after the release of Gimme Shelter. Weeks after Altamont, a Rolling Stone exposé established that Hunter was trying to run away from the Hells Angels, who had just assaulted him after removing him from atop a speaker.
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