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Lollapalooza : the uncensored story of alternative rock's wildest festival / Richard Bienstock and Tom Beaujour.

Bienstock, Richard, (author.). Beaujour, Tom, (author.).

Summary:

"Through hundreds of new interviews with artists, tour founders, festival organizers, promoters, publicists, sideshow freaks, stage crews, record label execs, reporters, roadies and more, Lollapalooza chronicles the tour's pioneering 1991-1997 run, and, in the process, alternative rock's rise--as well as the reverberations that led to a massive shift in the music industry and the culture at large. Conceived by Farrell as a farewell tour for Jane's Addiction, Lollapalooza's inaugural outing across the U.S. in the summer of 1991 helped to coalesce an ideology and aesthetic that not only washed over popular music but seeped into fashion, film, television, literature, food, politics and more. Throughout the decade, Lollapalooza offered a vast and diverse ensemble of bands, breaking barriers of genre and uniting alternative rock, heavy metal, punk, hip-hop, industrial, goth, avant-garde, spoken word, electronic dance music and other styles under one big tent, and setting the template for the modern American music festival and the scores of other contemporary destination fests that are now an integral part of how audiences experience live music." --Provided by publisher.

Record details

ISBN: 9781250283702
ISBN: 1250283701
Physical Description: xix, 409 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: New York : St. Martin's Press, 2025.
Copyright: ©2025

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:	Includes bibliographical references.
Formatted Contents Note:	Foreword by Kim Thayil of Soundgarden -- Cast of characters -- Introduction -- 1991 -- 1992 -- 1993 -- 1994 -- 1995 -- 1996 -- 1997 -- Epilogue.