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On December 3, 1979, 11 young people lost their lives in a stampede as fans rushed the doors of a Who concert at the Riverfront Coliseum in Cincinnati, Ohio.  T

The Who's 1979 show in Cincinnati changed three concertgoers' lives. As the band finally returned to the city, the three were there, too

The Who finally returned to Cincinnati on May 15 at FC Cincinnati's TQL Stadium. It was the legendary rock band’s first local performance since Dec. 3, 1979, when tragedy struck at Riverfront Coliseum. On that day, 11 people were trampled to death when an impatient crowd pushed its way through the doors at the Coliseum before the band’s performance.

As hard as it might be to believe, The Who’s Pete Townshend and Roger Daltrey weren’t always the genre-defining rock ‘n’ roll icons who took to the stage Sunday night at Cincinnati’s TQL Sta

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The Who returned to Cincinnati, Ohio Sunday night for their first show there since December 3, 1979 when 11 fans were trampled to death rushing the gate at their show at Riverfront Coliseum.

The Who have returned to Cincinnati for an emotional concert 40 years after the tragic events that took place outside their 1979 show in the city,

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.

While The Who performed inside Cincinnati's Riverfront Coliseum on Dec. 3, 1979, some two dozen people outside were injured and 11 died in a chaotic crush to get through the doors.

This Sunday, The Who will play their first concert in Cincinnati since the band's infamous December 1979 show at the Riverfront Coliseum, where 11 young people