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Pete Townshend and the rest of The Who rocked a two hour show Sunday night in Cincinnati at TQL Stadium. The band remembered the 1979 concert tragedy.

P.E.M. Memorial honors three of the 11 victims killed outside of TQL before The Who performed in 1979. All three attended Finneytown High School: Stephan Preston, Jackie Eckerle, and Karen Morrison.

The Who announced a new tour kicking off April 22 and among their stops is one in Cincinnati. Itll be their first concert after the 1979 tragedy.

The Who announced a new tour kicking off April 22 and among their stops is one in Cincinnati. Itll be their first concert after the 1979 tragedy.

For the first time since the 1979 concert disaster, The Who are returning to Cincinnati.

An unseen 1973 concert by The Who will be streamed in honor of the 11 fans who lost their lives before their Cincinnati performance in 1979.

From USA TODAY Network and wire reports Alabama Montgomery: Before his death from COVID-19, former state senator Larry Dixon spoke to his wife of 53 years from his hospital bed and asked her to relay a warning. “Sweetheart, we messed up. We just dropped our guard,” Dr. David Thrasher, a pulmonologist and friend of Dixon, recalled him saying. Dixon, 78, died Friday from complications of COVID-19. Thrasher said his longtime friend had been mostly careful but may have contracted the virus afte...

The Who concert memorial fundraiser plays on, virtually by Dan Sewell, The Associated Press Posted Dec 10, 2020 1:54 pm EDT Last Updated Dec 10, 2020 at 1:58 pm EDT FILE - This Thursday, Nov. 21, 2019, file photo shows a signed microphone by The Whos Roger Daltrey on display in a memorial cabinet at the Finneytown High School secondary campus in Finneytown, Ohio, along with other mementoes of the three Finneytown students killed in a stampede at the bands 1979 Cincinnati concert. Every year, Fi...

  Thursday Dec 10, 2020 at 9:40 AM Dec 10, 2020 at 9:41 AM CINCINNATI (AP) " For years, alumni of a Cincinnati-area high school have gathered to raise scholarship money in memory of three classmates killed in a crush of people at a 1979 concert by The Who. And they were determined to do it again in 2020 " despite the pandemic. They just didnt know how. But with the help of their friends " including two famous ones " they had their most memorable evening yet. Fred Witten...