![]() Knievel was hauled to safety just before the ruckus broke out. ![]() Like a scene out of a Peter Fonda movie, Evel leaped off his bike, and the Hell's Angel grabbed him and threw him to the ground like a ragdoll. While Knievel rode a victory lap, the Hell's Angel jumped into the arena, waiting for him. A Hell's Angel threw a wrench at Knievel on his way up the takeoff ramp. Knievel also once had a run in with the notorious Hell's Angels biker gang - after a 1970s jump at the Cow Palace in San Francisco. At the height of his motorcycle prowess, Knievel pushed the limits and crashed more than 20 times, suffering 433 bone fractures (the Guinness World Record for "most broken bones in a lifetime"). Knievel was the ultimate doer of stunts-an Elvis Presley on two-wheels and world-class asshole, he was an international fascination. Michael Buble 'Crazy Little Thing Called Love': This thing called love I just can't handle it This thing called love I must get round to it I ain'. Not fun to be a Beatle if the hippies turn out to be aggressive.īefore there was Jackass or Johnny Knoxville, there was Evel Knievel doing stunts on his motorcycle. It got to the point where we couldn't stop for fear of being trampled." Everybody looked stoned – even mothers and babies – and they were so close behind us they were treading on the backs of our heels. #LYNDA CARTER CRAZY LITTLE THING CALLED LOVE LYRICS FULL#"We were expecting Haight-Ashbury to be special, a creative and artistic place, filled with Beautiful People, but it was horrible – full of ghastly drop-outs, bums and spotty youths, all out of their brains. At the time, Haight-Ashbury was the LSD capital of America and was the home to such musicians as Jefferson Airplane, Grateful Dead and Janis Joplin. ![]() After spending 6 days in Los Angeles, Harrison and his wife Pattie flew in a private jet up to San Francisco to visit his wife's sister and to see what the deal was with all these American hippies. George Harrison once said when he visited Haight-Ashbury in San Francisco during the "Summer of Love" in 1967 - it was a defining moment when he knew the hippie movement was over.
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