Eleven People Trampled to Death at The Who Concert……
December 3, 1979……..
The English rock band The Who was performing at Riverfront Coliseum (now known as Heritage Bank Center) in Cincinnati, Ohio when a rush of concert-goers outside the Coliseum’s entry doors resulted in the crushing deaths of 11 people with 26 other people injured. The crowds were waiting to be let in when only a single set of doors was opened. People waiting behind the other still closed doors began pushing forward thinking they would be opened also. When the soundtrack to The Who’s film Quadrophenia (1979) began to play, the crowd assumed that The Who were starting earlier than scheduled and began pushing forward even more causing people to be trampled and asphyxiated.