Gimme Shelter Film Analysis

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Gimme Shelter is a documentary film that captures the events of the Rolling Stones Tour and the concert at Altamont in 1969. The Rolling-Stones are a very popular band that helped define Rock n Roll music for generations. Member Keith Richards and Mick Jagger have been an inspiration and adapted into other films, characters and performances for actors and filmmakers over the last few decades. Gimme Shelter has been known to be one of the greatest rock n roll documentaries ever made. The events that occurred during the Rolling-Stones tour in 1970 made headlines and showed the world the impact and chaos music can cause when a murder occurred during the events at the concert at Altamont. Gimme Shelter was an opening track on the bands 1969 album

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