Astroworld’s youngest victim was John Hilgert, a 14-year-old high school student remembered by his community for his kindness, smarts, and athleticism. “Everything about that night was a tragedy,” Tracy Faulkner, a parent of one of John’s classmates who also attended the festival told the Houston Chronicle. “John was a good student and athlete and so polite,” she continued. “He was the sweetest and smartest young man.”
As the heartbreaking accounts of what happened that fateful night have captivated and horrified the world, with Scott, LiveNation, and even musician Drake, who appeared as a surprise guest performer during the concert, staring down several lawsuits, one question remains – what happens now?
Although Astroworld is a unique catastrophe in several senses, it is far from the first music event to end in tragedy. In 1969, The Rolling Stones held a free concert at the Altamont Speedway in Northern California. Although touted to be the West Coast version of Woodstock which occurred roughly four months earlier in upstate New York, the concert wasn’t nearly as well-planned or funded as its predecessor. Tapping members of the Hells Angels Motorcycle Club to act as concert security, the event ultimately turned violent, leaving several people dead and even more injured.
Roughly 23 years later in December 1991, nine attendees were killed in another crowd crush outside of an oversold City College gym hosting a hip-hop celebrity basketball game. A judge later ruled that the incident, which also injured roughly two dozen others, was the fault of two separate entities — the City University of New York, who ran the venue, and the game’s promoters, rapper Dwight “Heavy D” Myers and a young Sean Combs, who would later garner international fame as rapper Puff Daddy – a.k.a. P. Diddy, according to History.com.
While both The Rolling Stones and P. Diddy were ultimately able to have careers following these tragedies, the same has yet to be seen for Scott. Prior to the heartbreaking events of Astroworld, Scott has garnered a reputation for creating and participating in “raging” environments at his concerts as well as seemingly inciting dangerous behavior at his shows, many of which “teetered on the edge of mayhem,” according to the New York Times
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Source: Pinoy Daily News
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