Death to music: star concerts where people died in a stampede

Even the coronavirus can’t stop the concerts. People continue to attend idol performances. Apparently, the rare opportunity to listen to your favorite artist live (and sometimes the poor organization of the event) leads to crushes, and those – to death. In this material we recall the tragic cases when people died at idol concerts.

On the evening of November 5, the first day of the Astroworld festival in Houston, Texas, 8 spectators were killed. When Travis Scott appeared on stage, the crowd rushed to the stage, a stampede began, followed by a panic. As a result, about 300 people were injured, another 8, including a 10-year-old boy, died.

Boyfriend Kylie Jenner has already apologized and pledged to return all viewers’ money for the tickets. But the public isn’t ready to let go so easily: Travis is being sued in a multimillion-dollar class action lawsuit. Viewers are blaming not only the company that organized Live Nation, which failed to provide security and take action during the stampede, but also the artist himself, who they believe , was able to influence the situation – at least stop the performance and invite everyone to order. But Scott continued to sing.

Kylie Jenner, who is about to give birth to her boyfriend’s second child, does not comment on the situation. Meanwhile, fans for some reason decided that she was indirectly responsible for the tragedy, for which they persecuted her on social media.

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On June 30, 2000, around 50,000 spectators waited for Pearl Jam to take the stage at the Danish Roskilde festival. As soon as the artists appeared on stage, a terrible thunderbolt occurred in the crowd. 45 minutes passed, the situation escalated, and Pearl Jam finally realized that before them – not a rock and roll slam, but a real tragedy.

Security asked the performers to stop the concert, then bandleader Eddie Vedder turned to the audience: “Imagine I’m your friend and you have to step back so you don’t hurt me. Many of you have friends in the foreground. I’m going to count to three now, and you all take three steps back.”

Fortunately, the audience listened to the idol, and the crowd started to slowly back away. It was then that the most terrible thing happened: a pit formed near the stage, in which people were lying. The guards started taking the victims out, but, alas, some of them were already dead. Pearl Jam was crushed by what was happening: they canceled subsequent concerts and thought about quitting the stage for good, but soon all charges against them were dropped. Since then, at each of their concerts, the musicians have always drawn the public’s attention to the need to keep a distance.

On July 29, 2014, the popular rap group Instinct Killers gave their concert in the capital of Guinea. The musicians’ performance took place in the suburbs of Conakry, on the open-air Ratoma beach. At some point, a stampede began, and the situation could not be brought under control for a long time. As a result, 24 people died, including 13 girls. The Guinean government has declared 7 days of national mourning.

In 2010, the biggest music festival “Love Parade” in the German city of Duisburg turned into a tragedy. The reason for this was the panic caused by a crash in the tunnel at the entrance to the concert hall. Entrances and exits were closed, the situation was made worse by the 30 degree heat. At one point, people in the overcrowded tunnel simply began to pass out, while others, in a panic, started heading for the exits. As a result of the stampede, 21 people died, around 5,000 others were injured in varying degrees of severity.

On August 22, 2019, the concert of the popular rapper Soolking took place in the Algerian capital. A huge line formed at one of the entrances to the stadium, which caused a terrible crash. As a result, five people died – two men and three girls. Despite the terrible incident, the concert was not canceled: Soolking took the stage and worked out the performance.

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You may not be familiar with the Sphere by Ebbast, but in his native Italy he is very popular. In 2018, his name thundered around the world, alas, for another reason. The rapper’s concert at the Lanterna Azzura nightclub in the city of Corinaldo was attended by about a thousand spectators. It was reported that at some point in the building someone sprayed hot spray, which triggered a panic and a stampede. Six people died that night: five underage teenagers and a woman – the mother of one of the dead girls. Eyewitnesses said that, rushing to the emergency exits, they came across locked doors, which only aggravated the situation.

Super popular Argentinian musician Indio Solari’s concert ended in tragedy. The situation was deadlocked from the start: it was reported that more than 300,000 people came to the stadium, which can accommodate 250,000 people. Already on the third song of the musician, a terrible crush began. Indio drew attention to how a large group of people caused a dangerous situation and immediately cut off the speech. The artist urged people to change their minds and the guards to help those who were suffering. Alas, two of those who fell under the pressure of the crowd did not survive.

April 30, 2007 in the poor district of the city of Sfax, Tunisia, was to be a public holiday. But it turned out to be a tragedy. The open-air concert brought together the finalists of the Star Academy TV interpretation competition, which is very popular among young people in Arab countries. As a result, there were many children among the concert audience. When Tunisian singer Marva took the stage, the crowd got really fired up, and on her last song, they went wild. A group of young people began to break through closer to the scene, a stampede began, as a result of which seven people between the ages of 12 and 21 died. Dozens of others were injured.

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