Memo fr. George to all staff: The Hell's Angels will be in London within the next week on the way to straighten out Czechoslovakia. There will be twelve in number, complete with leather jackets and motorcycles...They may look as though they are going to do you in, but they are very straight and do good things, so don't fear them or uptight them. Try to assist them without neglecting your Apple Business and without letting them take control of Saville Row. December 4, 1968.
Getting a lot of play today is a report, via the BBC, that the Hell’s Angels plotted to kill Mick Jagger in 1969, I guess as revenge for his bad-mouthing them over Altamont. The relevant passage goes as follows:
Gang members hatched a plan to kill Jagger at his holiday home in Long Island, New York, the BBC claimed.
“The Hells Angels were so angered by Jagger’s treatment of them that they decided to kill him,” Tom Mangold, the presenter of the program, was quoted as telling Britain’s Sunday Telegraph newspaper.
He said the plan was disclosed during an interview with Mark Young, a former FBI officer, for the BBC’s “The FBI at 100″ documentary.
Mangold said the men tried to reach Jagger by sea. “The boat was hit by a storm and all of the men were thrown overboard,” he was quoted as saying. They all survived but made no other attempt on his life, Mangold said.
Interesting.
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