THE roar of Harley-Davidsons and stench of petrol was all it took to announce the Hells Angels were in town. And leading the ...

Hells Angels outlaw motorcycle club founder and "Sons of Anarchy" actor Sonny Barger died Wednesday following a "brief battle with cancer." He was 83 years old.

Sonny Barger, the leather-clad fixture of 1960s counterculture and figurehead of the Hells Angels motorcycle club who was at the notorious Rolling Stones concert at Altamont Speedway, has died ...

The founder of the Hells Angels motorcycle gang has died. Sonny Barger was 83. >> Read more trending news News of his death was announced on his official Facebook page early Thursday morning.

Ralph "Sonny" Barger, the Hells Angels motorcycle club leader who became the rough-hewn face of America's outlaw biker culture and the restlessness, hard living and criminality that came with it ...

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 PHOTO: Sonny Barger, founder of the Oakland, California charter of the Hells Angels motorcycle club, attends a party August 23, 2003 in Quincy, Illinois. Barger died at the age of 83.

LIVERMORE, Calif. — Sonny Barger, the leather-clad fixture of 1960s counterculture and figurehead of the notorious Hells Angels motorcycle club, has died. He was 83.

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.

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.