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The Who concert disaster was a crowd disaster that occurred on December 3, 1979, when English rock band the Who performed at Riverfront Coliseum (now known as Heritage Bank Center) in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States, and a rush of concert-goers outside the Coliseum's entry doors resulted in the deaths of 11 people.
The Who Tour 1979 was The Who's first concert tour after the death of original drummer Keith Moon. The tour supported their 1978 album Who Are You , and consisted of concerts in Europe and the United States and acknowledged the band's return to live performance.
"In Concert" is a very special episode of the television series WKRP in Cincinnati. Airing as the 19th episode of the second season, it was first broadcast in the United States on February 11, 1980 on CBS, and the concept for the episode was described as "admirably ambitious" by William Beamon, writing in the St. Petersburg Evening Independent before he had viewed the episode.
On Dec. 3, 1979, 11 concertgoers were killed when the crowd surged to get into Cincinnati's Riverfront Coliseum for the Who rock concert. Astroworld brings memories of the Who concert stampede ...
A British Tommy (plus hits) 7-date concert tour. [112] 2017: 13 July 2017 – 1 October 2017 (North America, South America) 19 A 19-date North & South American concert tour. 2019–2021: 7 May 2019 – 29 March 2021 (North America, United Kingdom) 56 A 56-show symphonic concert tour of North America and the U.K., partially supporting their ...
The arena was the home of the Cincinnati Stingers of the World Hockey Association from 1975 to 1979. Since then, the arena has hosted two minor league hockey teams and various concerts, political rallies, tennis tournaments, figure skating, professional wrestling, traveling circus and rodeo shows, and other events.
Concerts for the People of Kampuchea was a series of concerts featuring Wings, Queen, the Clash, the Pretenders, the Who, Elvis Costello, and many more artists which took place at the Hammersmith Odeon in London during December 1979 to raise money for the victims of war-torn Cambodia.
On 3 December 1979, a crowd crush at a Who gig at the Riverfront Coliseum, Cincinnati killed 11 fans. [230] This was partly due to the festival seating, where the first to enter get the best positions. Some fans waiting outside mistook the band's soundcheck for the concert, and attempted to force their way inside. As only a few entrance doors ...