Description: Further DetailsTitle: Killer ShowCondition: NewEAN: 9781611688535ISBN: 9781611688535Publisher: ForeEdgeFormat: PaperbackRelease Date: 06/25/2015Item Height: 235mmItem Length: 156mmAuthor: John BarylickLanguage: EnglishISBN-10: 1611688531Description: On February 20, 2003, the deadliest rock concert in U.S. history took place at a roadhouse called The Station in West Warwick, Rhode Island. That night, in the few minutes it takes to play a hard-rock standard, the fate of many of the unsuspecting nightclub patrons was determined with awful certainty. The blaze was ignited when pyrotechnics set off by Great White, a 1980s heavy-metal band, lit flammable polyurethane "egg crate" foam sound insulation on the club's walls. In less than 10 minutes, 96 people were dead and 200 more were injured, many catastrophically. The final death toll topped out, three months later, at the eerily unlikely round number of 100.The story of the fire, its causes, and its legal and human aftermath is one of lives put at risk by petty economic decisions-by a band, club owners, promoters, building inspectors, and product manufacturers. Any one of those decisions, made differently, might have averted the tragedy. Together, however, they reached a fatal critical mass.Killer Show is the first comprehensive exploration of the chain of events leading up to the fire, the conflagration itself, and the painstaking search for evidence to hold the guilty to account and obtain justice for the victims. Anyone who has entered an entertainment venue and wondered,"Could I get out of here in a hurry?" will identify with concertgoers at The Station. Fans of disaster nonfiction and forensic thrillers will find ample elements of both genres in Killer Show.Country/Region of Manufacture: USGenre: Society & CultureRelease Year: 2015 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Publication Name: Killer Show
Title: Killer Show
EAN: 9781611688535
ISBN: 9781611688535
Release Date: 06/25/2015
Release Year: 2015
ISBN-10: 1611688531
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Book Title: Killer Show : the Station Nightclub Fire, America's Deadliest Rock Concert
Number of Pages: 324 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: University Press of New England
Topic: Theater / General, United States / State & Local / New England (Ct, mA, Me, NH, Ri, VT), General, Fire Science, Genres & Styles / Rock
Publication Year: 2015
Item Height: 1 in
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Music, Performing Arts, Technology & Engineering, True Crime, History
Item Weight: 15.2 Oz
Item Length: 9.2 in
Author: John Barylick
Item Width: 6.2 in
Format: Trade Paperback
