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Roger Daltrey and Pete Townshend, The Who. photo by Ros O'Gorman

Roger Daltrey and Pete Townshend, The Who. photo by Ros O'Gorman

The Who Venue To Honor 33 Year Old Canceled Tickets

by Roger Wink, VVN Music on July 22, 2012

in News

Thirty-three years ago, the Who were scheduled to play a show at the Providence Civic Center but the venue cancelled the show in the wake of the infamous stampede outside the group’s Cincinnati stop.

Roger Daltrey and Pete Townshend, The Who. photo by Ros O'Gorman

Roger Daltrey and Pete Townshend, The Who. photo by Ros O'Gorman

On that night, fans rushed the doors to the venue when they heard the group performing their soundcheck, crushing those in the front and killing eleven people.

The Civic Center is now known as the Dunkin Donuts Center and those in charge have decided that they will accept tickets from that cancelled 1979 show for the Who’s Quadrophenia stop on February 26, 2013.

Of course, most of those tickets were either turned in for refund or lost in the dusts of time but venue GM Lawrence Lepore thinks there might be a couple out there. “Somewhere, someplace, someone’s got it stashed. The question is, are they willing to give that up? If they are, we’re willing to take it.”

The face value of the 1979 ticket is $14. Top tickets for the February 26 show are $127.50.

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