The site of the nightclub - and specifically, the former Cabaret Room - has been home to memorials ever since. May 1977: The Beverly Hills Supper Club FireĪ packed dinner crowd had been waiting for singer John Davidson to take the stage at the Beverly Hills Supper Club in Southgate, Ky., when a fire broke out, killing 165 people and injuring many others. Their show was originally planned for April 2020, but postponed because of the coronavirus pandemic. We did anything we could do just to go ahead and protect ourselves because, you know, our feet were off the ground at points," survivor John Hutchins, who was 17 at the time, told NPR in 2019.įour decades later, The Who announced plans to hold their first Cincinnati concert since that tragic day. "We held off by, you know, just holding ourselves up against doors, against the bars.
Rules about festival seating in which fans were seated on a first-come, first-serve basis were changed as a result of the disaster. He and one of the people he hit died, while the other was taken to a hospital with injuries. The concert went on without the band knowing about the deaths. The Astroworld incident comes just days after two people died at a music event in Sweden.Īs audiences waited in a concert hall near Stockholm for an ABBA tribute concert to start on Tuesday night, an elderly man either jumped or fell down seven floors and landed on two people below. Hundreds of fans had gathered outside the plaza early for first-come. The deaths at Astroworld Festival call to mind other rare but traumatic incidents at concerts and festivals in which crowding or other factors contributed to dangerous conditions for some attendees. Eleven people died in a stampede to see The Who in concert at Cincinnati's Riverfront Coliseum on the night of Dec. Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner called for law enforcement, festival organizer Live Nation and the venue to explain "how the event got out of control leading to the deaths and injuries of several attendees." Tickets for the show were for festival seating, meaning first come, first get the. The crowd surge that killed eight people calls to mind other concerts and music festivals that turned deadly in recent decades.Īt least eight people are dead and many more injured after a crowd rushed the stage at rapper Travis Scott's music festival Astroworld in Houston.Īuthorities are investigating the cause of the "mass casualty event," which unfolded at an outdoor performance by Scott at the festival on Friday night. On December 3, 1979, 11 people were killed while trying to enter Riverfront Coliseum for a concert by The Who. This show's for them.Flowers rest outside of the canceled Astroworld festival at NRG Park in Houston on Saturday. But at the next day's concert in Buffalo, New York, singer Roger Daltrey said, "We lost a lot of family last night. The band was not told about the deaths and The Who performed.
Minutes later, a person smashed through a closed glass door, Time reported, and as the doors opened concertgoers stampeded, suffocating and trampling some in the crowd. when the band did a soundcheck, people began pressing towards the doors. for the sold-out show – most tickets were general admission – and about 7 p.m. A crowd at Travis Scott ’s Astroworld Festival in Houston unexpectedly began pushing toward the stage, causing panic and chaos, and leaving eight people dead, including a 14-year-old. In that incident, thousands of fans had gathered by 3 p.m. Scott has faced a great deal of criticism for not putting a stop to the. Perhaps the most well-known fatal concert surge involved 11 people who died when they were crushed against the arena doors before a concert by The Who in Cincinnati in 1979. Medics reported afterwards that 11 people went into cardiac arrest during the concert. What officials called a "mass casualty" incident is just the most recent concert tragedy. Watch Video: At least 8 dead at concert during Astroworld Festival in TexasĪn apparent crowd surge at the Astroworld music festival in Houston Friday night where rapper Travis Scott performed has left at least eight people dead and many injured.
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