谁人乐队自1979年悲剧以来再次演出

The Who Plans 1st Cincinnati Area Performance Since 1979 Tragedy

The Who announced on Tuesday it will perform in the Cincinnati, Ohio, area for the first time since 11 people died at one of its shows 40 years ago.

Plans call for the British rock group to play April 23 on the other side of the Ohio River, at Northern Kentucky University.

FILE - In this June 28, 2015 file photo, singer Roger Daltrey and Pete Townshed of the band The Who perform at the Glastonbury music festival at Worthy¹ Farm, Glastonbury, England. (Photo by Jim Ross/Invision/AP, File)

FILE - In this June 28, 2015 file photo, singer Roger Daltrey and Pete Townshed of the band The Who perform at the Glastonbury music festival at Worthy Farm, Glastonbury, England. (Photo by Jim Ross/Invision/AP, File)

The concert will take place only a short drive from where the 11 music fans were crushed² to death. More than 20 others were injured in the stampede as thousands lined up for seats.

The announcement came after a Cincinnati television station broadcast comments from Roger Daltry, The Who's lead singer, and guitarist Pete Townshend. They are the remaining original members of the band.

Both have said they are always remembering the 1979 tragedy. Townshend recently told The Associated Press he wanted to discuss it in Cincinnati.

The Who said it will donate some of the profits from the concert next year to a memorial fund³ to help students in the Cincinnati neighborhood of Finneytown. The band has donated money to the fund for years. Three of the 11 killed had attended Finneytown High School.

The band's members did not know about the tragedy until the show was ending. Longtime manager Bill Curbishley had made the decision to have The Who perform. He had warned Cincinnati officials that they would not be able to control the crowd if the concert did not take place.

Instead, the band left Ohio and moved on to Buffalo⁴, New York, for their next show.

"I'm not forgiving us. We should have stayed," Townshend told The Associated Press.

Townshend recalled⁵ the band's manager telling him, "I've got something terrible to tell you."

A similar tragedy happened in 2000 at the Roskilde Music Festival in Denmark. During a Pearl⁶ Jam concert, there was a stampede that killed nine people and injured 28.

Townshend feels that enough time has passed for an important discussion⁷ about the Cincinnati tragedy.

He said, "Now, we can have a conversation about it when we go back. That conversation will pick up. We will meet people and we'll be there. We'll be there. That's what's important."

Townshend added, "But I do think one of the things that happened at the time was that we ran away...I left a little bit of my soul in Cincinnati."

Words in This Story

stampede – n. an event in which a large group of frightened or excited animals or people run together in a wild, uncontrolled way

original – adj. present or existing from the beginning

fund – n. money saved or set aside for a special purpose

manager – n. someone responsible for controlling or supervising⁸ something

conversation – n. discussion

soul – n. a person's deeply felt moral and emotional nature

1 worthy   

adj.(of)值得的，配得上的；有价值的

参考例句：

• I did not esteem him to be worthy of trust.我认为他不值得信赖。
• There occurred nothing that was worthy to be mentioned.没有值得一提的事发生。

2 crushed   

a.压碎的，倒碎的

参考例句：

• The car was completely crushed under the truck. 小轿车被卡车压得完全变形了。
• The box was crushed when the car ran over it. 汽车辗过箱子时把它给压碎了。

3 fund   

n.基金，资金，存款，财源，贮藏；vt.提供资金，积累

参考例句：

• They decided to set up a fund for this purpose.他们决定为此专立一项基金。
• This fund may not be drawn on without permission.这笔钱非经批准不得动用。

4 buffalo   

n.(北美)野牛；(亚洲)水牛

参考例句：

• Asian buffalo isn't as wild as that of America's. 亚洲水牛比美洲水牛温顺些。
• The boots are made of buffalo hide. 这双靴子是由水牛皮制成的。

5 recalled   

回忆起( recall的过去式和过去分词 )； 使想起； 使想到； 勾起

参考例句：

• I recalled that he had mentioned the problem once. 我回忆起他曾经有一次提到过这个问题。
• The sight recalled the days of childhood to me. 那情景使我回忆起童年。

6 pearl   

n.珍珠，珍珠母

参考例句：

• He bought his girlfriend a pearl necklace.他给他女朋友买了一条珍珠项链。
• The crane and the mother-of-pearl fight to death.鹬蚌相争。

7 discussion   

n.讨论，谈论；论述

参考例句：

• It is certain he will come to the discussion.他肯定会来参加讨论。
• After months of discussion,a peace agreement is gradually taking shape.经过几个月的商讨，和平协议渐渐有了眉目。

8 supervising   

v.监督，管理( supervise的现在分词 )

参考例句：

• She had something to do in the house, supervising that native. 她待在家里，究竟还有点儿事情可以做做，可以监视那个土人。 来自辞典例句
• In addition, nuisance law fails to provide a systematic mechanism for supervising emissions. 另外，妨害法不能提供一个监督排放的系统性机制。 来自英汉非文学 - 环境法 - 环境法