The Who Concert Disaster

Date: December 3, 1979 • Location: Newport, United States

Eleven people were crushed in a human stampede at a concert by British rock band the Who in Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S.

The Who concert disaster was a crowd disaster that occurred on December 3, 1979, when the English rock band the Who performed at Riverfront Coliseum in Cincinnati, Ohio, United States. Amidst confusion about the concert's start time, not all entry doors to the coliseum opened; a rush of concert-goers into the few open doors resulted in the deaths of 11 people.