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It was December 1979 when Emery Lucier learned the concert he was eagerly awaiting in Rhode Island by British rock band The Who had been canceled over safety concerns. The 17-year-old was so angry he knocked over a chair in his high school classroom.
In a story July 31 about fans of the band The Who trading in tickets from a canceled 1979 concert, The Associated Press misspelled the last name of the band's guitarist. He is Pete Townshend, not Townsend.
It was December 1979 when Emery Lucier learned the concert he was eagerly awaiting in Rhode Island by British rock band The Who had been canceled over safety concerns. The 17-year-old was so angry he knocked over a chair in his high school classroom.
Fans still holding tickets for a canceled 1979 show in Rhode Island by British rock band The Who can finally use them.
Fans still holding tickets for a canceled 1979 show in Rhode Island by British rock band the Who finally can use them.
The venue's general manager, Lawrence Lepore, said earlier this month he would honor tickets for the 1979 show, which then-Mayor Buddy Cianci canceled after a stampede before a Who concert in Ohio killed 11 people.
He said he remembers the disappointment when he heard the concert was canceled, and even now can list reasons why it was a bad decision, among them that the concert had assigned seats and not festival seating _ which is what was blamed for the stampede in Cincinnati.
