Rock's Greatest Disasters
Humanity has always been set by disasters, whether they\u2019ve been acts of god or something we somehow brought on ourselves...war, disease, earthquakes, famine, floods, volcanic eruptions, fire, plane crashes, industrial accidents, sinking ships, extreme weather...\nThe worst disaster of all time?...probably the influenza epidemic of 1918 to 1920...it\u2019s possible that up to 100 million died during that three-year period...\nThen again, world war ii was worse....by some estimates, the death toll was 120 million...and the black death of the 14th\xa0century was bad...it may have claimed up to 200 million lives or about 20% of the population of the planet...\nThen there the kinds of things that happen when people are supposed to be having fun...on February 14, 2004, the roof of an indoor waterpark in Moscow collapsed, killing 28 people...\nOn December 8, 1863, up to 3,000 people were killed in a fire at a church celebration in Santiago, Chile...\nOr how about this: sometime around the year 283, a wall at Circus Maximus, the chariot-racing stadium in Rome collapsed...it\u2019s said that 13,000 spectators died...and that happened about 150 years after a previous collapse where there were around 1500 deaths...\nThe universe is gonna do what the universe is gonna do...you can be as careful as humanly possible yet still get caught up in something awful...\nThis applies to the world of rock, too...it has seen its own situations where there has been loss of life...they need to remembered and memorialized to we can minimize the chances of these things ever happen again...\nThis is a list of rock\u2019s greatest disasters...\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices