Mick Jagger, the singer from the Rolling Stones, managed to escape an assassination attempt almost 40 years ago by Hells Angels, according to a BBC documentary.

A new documentary from BBC that will be transmitted on BBC Radio 4 on Monday will disclose the fact that Jagger was the target of an attack of the motorcycle gang after they had a dispute about the security of the concert.

The details of the plan were revealed by Mark Young, an FBI agent, for “The FBI at 100” documentary.

According to Tom Mangold, the presenter of the documentary, Jagger refused to continue working with the Hells Angels after a fan was killed by one of its members during the Altamont concert in 1969.

The Rolling Stones hired the motorcycles to provide security for their concert near San Francisco where security was poor.

The crowd was terrorized by the bikers and one of the members stabbed to death Meredith Hunter, 18, in front of the stage.

After the concert Jagger refused to work with the bikers anymore and they felt deceived. So the gang planned to kill Jagger at his holiday home in Long Island, New York, according to BBC.

According to Young, the members of the Hells Angels took a boat and set out to kill Jagger.

Mangold told the Sunday Telegraph: "The Hells Angels were so angered by Jagger's treatment of them that they decided to kill him. They planned the attack from the sea so they could enter his property from the garden and avoid security at the front. The boat was hit by a storm and all of the men were thrown overboard. All survived and there was not said to have been any further attempt on Jagger's life," Reuters reports.

In 1972 Alan Passaro was tried for Hunter’s death, but later was acquitted as the jury decided that he was acting in self defense as Hunter had a handgun on her.

It is not known if Jagger was informed of the plot against him.