(In Gimme Shelter, you can see somebody’s German shepherd pace back and forth in front of Jagger as he does his “Brothers and sisters, please cool out!” act to an increasingly unruly crowd.) I had heard the stories about yellow acid laced with strychnine that was handed out at Altamont by CIA agents tasked with discrediting the hippie movement, a conspiracy theory straight out of Thomas Pynchon. “Mick Jagger had long pretended to be the devil. Then one night he threw a party and the real devil showed up. The Stones have never recovered,” Rich Cohen writes in his 2016 book, The Sun and the Moon
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