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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 after gathering with friends. “Larry has been conscientious with masks, doing everything right, social...

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 Who's 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 band's 1979 Cincinnati concert. Every year, Finneytown alumni hold a memorial scholarship fundraising event to honor their three classmates. In ...

  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 didn't know how. But with the help of their friends " including two famous ones " they had their most memorable evening yet. Fred Wittenbaum, one of the organizers of the fundraiser, said he and others had kicked around 'some strange i...