Love Parade
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This article is about the Berlin music festival. For other uses, see Love Parade (disambiguation).
The Love Parade (German: Loveparade) was an electronic dance music festival and technoparade that originated in 1989 in West Berlin, Germany.[1] It was held annually in Berlin from 1989 to 2003 and in 2006, then from 2007 to 2010 in the Ruhr region. Events scheduled for 2004 and 2005 in Berlin and for 2009 in Bochum were canceled.
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Genre | Electronic dance music festival and technoparade |
Location(s) | Various locations in Germany |
Years active | 1989–2003; 2006–2008; 2010 |
Founded | July 1989; 34 years ago (1989-07) West Berlin, Germany |
Most recent | 24 July 2010 (2010-07-24) |
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On 24 July 2010, a crowd crush at the Love Parade in Duisburg caused the deaths of 21 people, with at least 500 others injured.[2] As a consequence, the organizer of the festival announced that no further Love Parades would be held and that the festival was permanently canceled.[3][4][5]