Mick Jagger Assassinated 1969

http://music.yahoo.com/read/news/57964454

Apparently, after the 1969 American tour, Mick Jagger got the Hells Angel's angry at him, a fact which prompted an assassination attempt. Now in OTL the boat carrying the 4 assassins was hit by a storm and ended up capsising.

But

WI the Hells Angels actually manage to off Mick Jagger?

First off, there's obviously going to be a huge crackdown on the Hell's Angels for killing someone so popular...

But what's really interesting is the effect it will have on the Rolling Stones and the world of music in General. All the studio albums from Let it Bleed onward are basically butterflied away. I honestly don't think the Rolling Stones could've survived without a flamboyant frontman like Mick Jagger. At least not as the Rolling Stones we all know.

Would someone be brought in to replace the now dead Mick? If so who?

Does Kieth Richard's solo career start up earlier as a result? How does that turn out. Perhaps the death of Mick Jagger sets Richards off on the road to clean living (nah...ASB:))

How does this altered Rolling Stones affect rock history?
 
1969 was a black year for the Rolling Stones
June Brian Jones left the band
July 3, Brian Jones drowned in the pool at his Cotchford Farm home
December 6, the Altamont Free Concert happens
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altamont_Free_Concert

organized by the The Rolling Stones they make,
mistake to take US Hells Angels a concert security.
(in England the stone had British Hells Angels a security force on Tour.)

the concert end in one killing and three accidental deaths

the Hells Angels wandet revenge for the Altamont Free Concert
and Mick Jagger's way to treatment them (last info is new to me)

less know Fact
after the Concert all of The Rolling Stone members almost get kill
as there Helicopter almost hit a Hill next to Speedway
(source BBC doku over history of Rock music)


But Inpact on Dead one or all of Rolling stone members:
I don't think the Stone stay a Band after Jones and Jagger dead in 1969.
 
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Sargon

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I grew up on a diet of the Stones as well as other great groups such as The Who. They're still going today which is something quite cool and amazing.

On a private level, it would have a fair amount of effect upon my personal development and where I'd be since I wouldn't have met up and made friends with people of similar musical tastes etc.

As for the music scene as a whole, well, it will have effects. Expect ballads to be made about him, and new groups to spring up in tribute, perhaps later making new interpretations of the sound of the Stones.


Sargon
 
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NapoleonXIV

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1969 was a black year for the Rolling Stones
June Brian Jones left the band
July 3, Brian Jones drowned in the pool at his Cotchford Farm home
December 6, the Altamont Free Concert happens
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altamont_Free_Concert

organized by the The Rolling Stones they make,
mistake to take US Hells Angels a concert security.
(in England the stone had British Hells Angels a security force on Tour.)

the concert end in one killing and three accidental deaths

the Hells Angels wandet revenge for the Altamont Free Concert
and Mick Jagger's way to treatment them (last info is new to me)

less know Fact
after the Concert all of The Rolling Stone members almost get kill
as there Helicopter almost hit a Hill next to Speedway
(source BBC doku over history of Rock music)


But Inpact on Dead one or all of Rolling stone members:
I don't think the Stone stay a Band after Jones and Jagger dead in 1969.

Nor do the Angels. Tough as they might be they couldn't deal with having every other MC and the majority of the world's adolecents howling for their blood everywhere they go. They disband in a year.
 
Lost albums

We still get _Let It Bleed_ -- that was done before Altamont. (Man, think how that title will look in retrospect.) So, this TL still has "Gimme Shelter" and "You Can't Always Get What You Want". Phew.

We lose the albums _Sticky Fingers_, _Goats Head Soup_, and everything after. Humm. Well, no "Angie" or "Wild Horses", nor "Beast of Burden" nor "Miss You". That's not so upsetting. Other hand, we lose "It's Only Rock and Roll", "Start Me Up" and "Shattered". That would suck.

Other-other hand, in this TL nobody has ever heard of Bianca Jagger.


Doug M.
 
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