rabchicago
2008 Aug 22, 07:16 pm
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December 3, 1979
The Who
at Riverfront Coliseum, Cincinnati
| Date | December 3, 1979 |
| Band | The Who |
| Venue | Riverfront Coliseum |
| City | Cincinnati |
| Personnel |
Pete Townshend Roger Daltrey John Entwistle John Bundrick Kenney Jones |
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This performance was the site of one of the worst rock concert-related tragedies in US history. Eleven fans were trampled to death and many more injured in a rush for first-come-first-serve seats at the sold-out concert. |
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The term for the deaths was "compressive asphyxia"
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rabchicago
2008 Aug 22, 07:06 pm
what actually happened
It wasn't a "trampling." It was a slow crush from the back of a huge crowd trying to get into the show, through doors that opened outward against the crowd, on a cold night on the Cincinnati riverfront.
In a way, people were trampled, but it wasn't because of a mad rush for seats...it was because the doors couldn't open...and people were pushing to get in.
Smaller people fell and were thus killed.