Stories, music and tears marked the service for Ralph "Sonny" Barger, a founding member of the Oakland chapter of the Hells Angels. Thousands of people gathered at Stockton 99 Speedway, Stockton ...

Thousands of people gathered at the Stockton 99 Speedway on Saturday for the funeral of Ralph "Sonny" Barger, longtime president and founding member of the Oakland chapter of the Hells Angels ...

Two years after the book was published, Barger was present at the Hells Angels’ most infamous moment. Bikers who were hired as security staff for the 1969 Rolling Stones concert stabbed someone ...

Hells Angeles chieftain Ralph "Sonny" Barger and his wife Sharon are shown after his release $100,000 bond in San Francisco Friday, Aug. 1, 1980. He has spent more than a year in jail on Federal ...

Thousands turned out on two wheels for the six-hour funeral service for Ralph “Sonny” Barger, 83. The Modesto native is credited with creating the first Oakland chapter of the Hells Angels in ...

FILE – Hells Angels founder Ralph “Sonny” Barger and his wife Sharon are shown after his release on $100,000 bond in San Francisco, Aug. 1, 1980.

Born in Modesto on Oct. 8, 1938, Ralph Hubert “Sonny” Barger, was also an author and an actor, but it was as founder of the Oakland Hells Angels in the late 1950s, his subsequent rise to its ...

FILE - Hells Angels founder Ralph "Sonny" Barger and his wife Sharon are shown after his release on $100,000 bond in San Francisco, Aug. 1, 1980.

FILE - Hells Angels founder Ralph "Sonny" Barger and his wife Sharon are shown after his release on $100,000 bond in San Francisco, Aug. 1, 1980.

FILE - Hells Angels founder Ralph "Sonny" Barger and his wife Sharon are shown after his release on $100,000 bond in San Francisco, Aug. 1, 1980.