People were standing on my back, my head,” she said. The combination of the flames, smoke and the crowd pressing to try to flee quickly turned deadly.Ĭoncertgoer Lisa Shea told CNN after the tragedy that “The whole place got tons of black smoke. The band Great White was scheduled to play the packed venue when pyrotechnics they set off caused a fire. On February 20, 2003, 100 people died and more than 200 were injured during a concert at The Station nightclub in West Warwick, Rhode Island. I’m losing it.’ And he said, ‘No, you can handle this.” “And I said, ‘I can’t.’ I was like, ‘I don’t know, Pete, I don’t think I can. “There I was in a fetal position, basically, and Pete said, ‘You can handle this,’” Vedder said. Pete Townshend of The Who reportedly talked to Pearl Jam lead singer Eddie Vedder to offer him advice based on The Who’s similar tragedy. I couldn’t lift my arms,” then 19-year-old Tomas Miller told the publication. “Half an hour in, I knew it was life and death. Pearl Jam at Roskilde music festival in 2000Įight people died of suffocation and a ninth person died at the hospital days later following a performance by Pearl Jam at Denmark’s Roskilde Festival back in 2000.Īccording to Rolling Stone, the trouble started in the mosh pit and things got tight for those in the crowd. The group had planned to return to the community for a gig in April 2020 as part of their “Moving On!” Tour, but it was postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic. “Because there’s always a certain amount, ‘If I hadn’t been doing this, it wouldn’t have happened,’ you know,” Daltrey was quoted as saying. Weeks before Christmas in 1979, 11 people died after a crowd surge of those attempting to get into a concert by The Who scheduled to be held at this major venue in Cincinnati.įirst come, first serve festival seating was blamed for the tragedy as concertgoers rushed to try and get inside before all the doors had been opened.Īccording to, The Who frontman Roger Daltrey quietly visited the Finneytown memorial site in 2018 to pay tribute to the victims. The Who at Cincinnati’s Riverfront Coliseum in 1979 The Cincinnati Enquirer reported in August that the former site of the venue was set to have an assisted living center, apartments, and homes built on it. Singer John Davidson had drawn a sizable crowd to the popular nightclub in Southgate, Kentucky, on May 28, 1977, when a fire broke out.Īs people rushed to exit at the same time, many became trapped in the flames and smoke, resulting in the deaths of 165 people and others injured. John Davidson at the Beverly Hills Supper Club in 1977 “The director of the British Safety Council called it a “suicide concert.’” “One St John Ambulance man said the scale of the injuries reminded him of the Blitz,” the story read. In an article the British publication The Independent published around the 25th anniversary of the tragedy, it was reported that “The central section of the 35,000 crowd had surged forward when Cassidy appeared many fainted, were trampled upon or were crushed.” More than 700 people were injured and 14-year-old Bernadette Whelan died following a crowd surge at a David Cassidy concert held at the White City Stadium in West London on May 26, 1974. David Cassidy at White City Stadium in 1974 While there have been horrific mass casualty concert events, such as the 2017 terrorist attack at the Ariana Grande performance at Britain’s Manchester Arena and the mass shooting at the Route 91 Harvest music festival in Las Vegas the same year, there have also been deaths and injuries related to crowd surges and stampedes.

Over the weekend, eight people were killed and many more injured during rapper Travis Scott’s Houston music festival Astroworld.Īuthorities are investigating what led to the tragedy.

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