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Hell's Angel: The Life and Times of Sonny Barger and the Hell's Angels Motorcycle Club

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In 1965 Carey McWilliams, editor of The Nation, hired Thompson to write a story about the Hells Angels motorcycle club in California. At the time Thompson was living in a house near San Francisco's Haight-Ashbury neighborhood, where the Hells Angels lived across from the Grateful Dead. [30] His article appeared on May 17, 1965, after which he received several book offers and spent the next year living and riding with the club. The relationship broke down when the bikers perceived that Thompson was exploiting them for personal gain and demanded a share of his profits. An argument at a party resulted in Thompson suffering a savage beating (or "stomping", as the Angels referred to it). [31] [32] Random House published the hard cover Hell's Angels: The Strange and Terrible Saga of the Outlaw Motorcycle Gangs in 1966, and the fight between Thompson and the Angels was well-marketed. CBC Television even broadcast an encounter between Thompson and Hells Angel Skip Workman before a live studio audience. [33]

In a contemporary New York Times review of the book, Thompson relates how he "drank at their bars, exchanged home visits, recorded their brutalities, viewed their sexual caprices, became converted to their motorcycle mystique, and was so intrigued, as he puts it, that 'I was no longer sure whether I was doing research on the Hell's Angels or being slowly absorbed by them.' " [10] Eric Thibault (August 16, 2012). "Sun News: Dead gang leader rebuffed top biker prior to assassination: Source". Sunnewsnetwork.ca. Archived from the original on January 7, 2013 . Retrieved June 18, 2013. In the Cameron Crowe film Almost Famous, based on Crowe's experiences writing for Rolling Stone while on the road with the fictional band Stillwater", the writer is on the phone with an actor portraying Jann Wenner. Wenner tells the young journalist that he "is not there to join the party, we already have one Hunter Thompson" after the young writer amassed large hotel and traveling expenses and is overheard to be sharing his room with several young women. [105] [106] Kragh, Ambro (April 10, 2017). Englenes gerninger. Gyldendal A/S. ISBN 9788702226904. Archived from the original on August 28, 2023 . Retrieved October 18, 2021– via Google Books.Dutch court bans 'violent' Hells Angels motorcycle club". Reuters. May 29, 2019. Archived from the original on October 19, 2020 . Retrieved February 24, 2020. Obituary: Hunter S Thompson". BBC News. February 21, 2005. Archived from the original on August 25, 2017 . Retrieved August 3, 2012.

In 1975, Wenner assigned Thompson to travel to Vietnam to cover what appeared to be the end of the Vietnam War. Thompson arrived in Saigon just as South Vietnam was collapsing and as other journalists were leaving the country. Wenner allegedly canceled Thompson's medical insurance, which strained Thompson's relationship with Rolling Stone. [53] He soon fled the country and refused to file his report until the ten-year anniversary of the Fall of Saigon. [53] Wenner, writing in 2022, denied the claims that he cancelled Thompson's insurance, saying that Thompson spent most of his time in Saigon obsessing over evacuation plans. Thompson filed an unfinished dispatch that Wenner described "strong and promising, but nothing substantial." He then took a commercial flight to Bangkok where he met his wife for what Wenner described as a few weeks of "totally undeserved rest and recreation." While in Thailand, Thompson had a custom brass door plaque made that read "Rolling Stone: Global Affairs Suite. Dr. Hunter S. Thompson" marked with a map of the world and two lightning bolts. "That was it," Wenner wrote. "No story. Just that plaque." [45] Thompson later finished the story in time for the 10-year anniversary of the Fall of Saigon. [53] There's a lot of drugs involved in the Hells Angels. But my brother didn't join them to make money, he joined to make friends. They help each other out — when my brother died they gave him the best send-off you've ever seen. But if you cross one, you upset the whole family". Tony Gay. Photo: Kyra Hanson (2018)Combined Records Department—Law Incident Table". The Smoking Gun. March 2, 2005. Archived from the original on June 30, 2012 . Retrieved August 3, 2012. Thompson's first campaign piece for Rolling Stone appeared as Fear and Loathing in Washington: Is This Trip Really Necessary? in the January 6, 1972, issue. The 14th and final installment appeared in the November 9 issue under the headline Ask Not For Whom The Bell Tolls.... [49] Miller, Michael E. (May 18, 2015). "How the Bandidos became one of the world's most feared biker gangs". Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Archived from the original on April 14, 2022 . Retrieved October 15, 2022. Under watchful eye, bikers aid charity – Thursday, Sept.4, 2008 | midnight". Las Vegas Sun. September 4, 2008. Archived from the original on August 23, 2010 . Retrieved August 9, 2010.

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