First rock concert for deaf people to be held in Toronto

Remember that scene in Mr. Holland's Opus where Richard Dreyfuss is singing John Lennon's "Beautiful Boy" to his son Cole? It's the one where sign language interpreters stood on stage and large speakers filled the concert hall so the hearing impaired could feel the vibrations of the music. At that time (early 1980s), the most a deaf person could do to feel the power of music was to let the vibrations and beats coming through a speaker travel through his or her body.

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