Movable multicultural music festival established in the
summer of
1991 and fronted by
Jane's Addiction singer
Perry Farrell. The plan for the first festival was that it would be the
farewell tour for Jane's Addiction, with special guests along for the ride. Lollapalooza's first year -- featuring
Jane's Addiction,
Ice-T's
Body Count,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Living Colour,
Henry Rollins,
the Butthole Surfers, and
Nine Inch Nails -- was so
successful,
musically and
commercially, that it returned every
summer for the next five years.
Year Two for the Lollapalooza was even more
successful and featured
the Red Hot Chili Peppers,
Ice Cube,
Pearl Jam,
Lush,
the Jesus and Mary Chain,
Soundgarden, and
Ministry. The
1992 tour also included a traveling
village of
political action tents,
food and
T-shirt vendors,
body piercing shacks, and the
freakish
Jim Rose Circus.
Farrell reduced his
contribution to the
1993 tour, and major
corporations began to try to
tap into "
alternative culture." This year's lineup included
Primus,
Rage Against the Machine,
Front 242,
Fishbone,
Babes in Toyland,
Arrested Development, and
Dinosaur Jr.Farrell renewed his involvement with Lollapalooza in
1994, and the tour drew one of its more
diverse lineups:
A Tribe Called Quest,
the Breeders,
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds,
L7,
George Clinton and
the P-Funk All-Stars,
Green Day,
the Boredoms,
Stereolab,
Guided by Voices,
Luscious Jackson, the
Beastie Boys, the
Smashing Pumpkins, and
Courtney Love.
The
1995 tour was less
commercial than previous outings. It featured
Hole,
Sonic Youth,
Pavement,
Beck,
the Jesus Lizard, the
Mighty Mighty Bosstones,
Sinead O'Connor, and
Cypress Hill.
The
1996 tour was dominated by
Metallica,
Soundgarden,
the Ramones, and
Rancid. Many
music fans smelled a
sell-out, and the tour lost
money.
The last year for the Lollapalooza was in
1997. The featured acts included
Orbital,
Devo, the
Prodigy, the
Orb,
Tool,
Snoop Doggy Dogg,
Korn,
James,
eels,
Jeremy Toback, and
Porno for Pyros. Lots of
bands ended up
dropping out of the tour early, usually because of
illness.
Research from http://altmusic.about.com/library/special/bl_lollapalooza-history.htm