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As much as these concerts are to die for and are organised on a wide scale, there are also times when they can turn into huge mishaps or tragedies.
Concerts are the most lively and exhilarating events to experience. Among a huge crowd to witness your favourite rockstar at high sound is overwhelming. Majorly concerts are organized either indoors, amphitheaters, or stadiums sending chills down the body.
Indoor concerts organized in the largest venues are called arena concerts or amphitheater concerts. Concerts are also known as shows and gigs.
1. Guns N’ Roses or Metallica Stadium Tour 1992
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Guns N’ Roses and Metallica managing a stadium tour, the foremost bands of the two within the world performing for 26 shows at a time, was ready for a magnificent summer. A rock match that was supposed to be heavenly but it eventually went down in hell. With eight shows at hand, the tour stop was at Montreal’s Olympic Stadium.
Metallica’s James Hetfield’s sustained burn injuries from standing on top of a pyrotechnics cannon forcing them to cancel their show that day. Now, rather than being responsible about the incident, they tested the patience of Canadians and came really late to the show.
2. Woodstock 1999
The San Francisco Chronicle gave “The day the music died” label to the infamous Woodstock’ 99 music festival, cutting a long story short by describing the chaos that happened in what was supposedly a peaceful emulation of the original Woodstock ’69, celebrating its 30th anniversary.
With an iconic string of musicians right from James Brown to Metallica and Red Hot Chili Peppers as the closing act. With pathetic exorbitant prices of necessities like a bottle of water costing $5, the folks couldn’t be on their best behavior under the 100-degree summer heat.
More than 1,000 people were injured and 44 arrests were made, also a gang rape case happened in between of the crowd during Limp Bizkit’s set. Fortunately, no one died but perhaps musical festivals did.
3. David Cassidy White City Concert 1974
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David Cassidy became famous through his role as Keith Partridge in the popular show “The Partridge Family”. Off late he got into a successful singing career and was thereon the foremost popular teen idols of the 1970s.
He announced in 1974 walking to his White City concert in London about retiring from work at 24. The announcement created hysteria, also the 35,000 capacity house was sold out. Some also didn’t get tickets and stayed outside the venue, eager to get a site of Cassidy.
After being on the stage finally, a lot of fangirls fainted. Gazillions were injured and a 14-year-old girl went into a coma for a week before becoming the first fatality of a pop concert ever. Brits Safety Council called Cassidy’s White City show a “suicide concert”.
4. Altamont Speedway Free Festival 1969
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This being one of the most violent rock concerts in the U.S. in the era of rock ‘n’ roll was anticipated to be westwoodstock.
Rolling Stones’ production team absurdly hired the motorcycle gang Hells Angels as security for the event, allegedly paying only $500 worth of free beer. The concert ended in a tragedy with three accidental deaths, two caused by a hit-and-run car accident.
5. Roskilde Festival 2000
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Roskilde Festival, Europe’s one of largest music festivals and is organised annually in the city, Denmark. In 2000 significantly Pearl Jam was crowded with over 10,000 fans in the concert.
The band played to a rain-soaked and frenzied mob who were pushing each other way too hard, trying to rush to the stage.
6. Damageplan Tour 2004
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The heavy-metal American band that sustained for a short time. While the Damageplan was promoting its only studio album on tour. Only things got worse when a paranoid-schizophrenic ex- U.S. Marine named Nathan Gale climbed on the stage and shot lead guitarist Dimbag Darrell right in the head multiple times. Some five people died including the security men.
7. The Who Tour 1979
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Tragedy after tragedy rolled in for The Who especially when only in a year the band’s renowned Keith Moon’s death, along with eleven more deaths. 1979 US- tour allowing the capacity of 18000 persons in Cincinnati, Ohio and majority of the tickets distributed on first come first basis. Thousands of fans crowded the entry arena when the band was doing a late soundcheck and the fans mistook it for the real thing. This resulted in eleven deaths and twenty-six injured.
8. Love Parade 2010
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(EDM) festival organised in Duisburg, Germany in 2010. The venue allowed a limit of 200,000 people however a surge of 1.4 million people came. The tragic incident occurred at the tunnel entry point to Love Parade. People were falling off stairs and were trampled upon by a human stampede caused by “crowd disturbance”.
9. Beverly Hills Supper Club 1977
Among nightclub fights The Beverly Hills Supper 1977 is rated third. It occurred on May, 28, 1977 in Southgate, Kentucky when the venue organised an event that was supposed to be a successful show. Singer John Davidson led the show where the nightclub’s cabaret room went out of capacity which allowed 600 people while 3000 concertgoers arrived.
10. Great White – The Station Nightclub 2003
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However, exceeding the limit of the number of persons in an area isn’t sticking to that. When The Hard Rock and Great White were leading the show in The StationNightclub in Rhode Island in New York. A small venue that allows only 250 people but over 400 people to gather. Then what can one expect?
Adding fuel to fire(no pun intended) was the operation of pyrotechnics that went south too fast and ignited foam soundproof insulation. The fire caused panic leading to the death of over 100 people. The guitarist Ty Longely lost his life too.
Written By- Shivani Singh
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