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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.
"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.
Cincinnati immediately outlawed festival seating at concerts. After establishment of a crowd control task force by Cincinnati mayor Ken Blackwell, the first concert held at the facility after the tragedy was ZZ Top with the Rockets on March 21, 1980, on ZZ Top's Expect No Quarter Tour. [42]
A crowd crush occurred at the Cincinnati concert on 3 December leading to the death of 11 fans and the cancellation of one scheduled concert. This particular set list is taken from a concert in New Haven, Connecticut, on 15 December 1979. [4] "Substitute" "I Can't Explain" "Baba O'Riley" "The Punk and the Godfather" "My Wife" (John Entwistle ...
Controversial by nature, the episode was facing preemption in Cincinnati by Robert Gordon, then-vice president of Cincinnati's CBS affiliate; Gordon initially felt the episode was in poor taste, but reconsidered after watching a preview and realizing the episode dealt not with the concert tragedy itself, but the solemn aftereffects and the ...
Feb. 7—Attention pinball wizards! Legendary rock band The Who will play TQL stadium in Cincinnati in "The Who Hits Back!" tour on Sunday, May 15. Singer Roger Daltrey and guitarist/songwriter ...
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 ...
When Riverbend opened in 1984, it was one of only 16 outdoor music amphitheaters in the United States and it helped revive the Cincinnati concert scene. Many concert promoters avoided Cincinnati following the December 3, 1979, Who rock concert tragedy, in which 11 people died at Riverfront Coliseum. The city passed tough crowd control ...