Stranger than Fiction: Mick Jagger & the Angels

You can't make this stuff up!

Everyone remembers the story about the Rolling Stones hiring a chapter of the Hells Angels for security at a concert in Altamont in 1969. The bikers terrorized the crowd and one Angel was charged in the stabbing death of a fan at that show. In the fallout from that concert, everyone started pointing fingers.

When Angels don't point figures, they get even. Reuters reported today that a series being aired on the BBC called "The FBI at 100" has one story about how the finger pointing and Jagger's "effeminate" dancing so enranged the Angels that they decided to kill Jagger.

Alas, Jagger's life was saved by a storm. The angry bikers decided to attack Jagger's estate in the Hamptons by the sea, but a storm swamped their boat and the attack was "scuttled" (Sorry, no pun intended). All of the wet bikers survived, but no further attempt on Jagger's life was made.

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