Perry Farrell Talks Lollapalooza Documentary Series and Three Decades of ‘Blowing People’s Minds’

  • 📰 billboard
  • ⏱ Reading Time:
  • 54 sec. here
  • 2 min. at publisher
  • 📊 Quality Score:
  • News: 25%
  • Publisher: 63%

United States Headlines News

United States Latest News,United States Headlines

Perry Farrell talks to Billboard about the three-part 'Lolla: The Story of Lollapalooza' documentary, and the festival's cultural impact.

El ambiente durante el cuarto día del festival Lollapalooza en el Grant Park de Chicago, el 31 de julio de 2022.freak in makeup and shiny black leather pants, as the two repeatedly, gleefully, refer to one another using racial slurs. Then imagine those two men clasping hands and giddily doing a same-sex waltz on stage in front of 15,000 screaming suburban kids to celebrate their transgressive tango.

The full story of Lolla is a wildly sprawling one, and director Warren says wrestling it into a three-plus-hour doc meant crawling through 20,000-30,000 hours of footage, much of it courtesy of MTV News, which thoroughly covered the fest for years. Luckily, there was no one on the planet who seemed like a better fit for the job.

Undaunted by the mountain of material, Warren set out to tell a roughly chronological tale of how Lolla grew from a scrappy idea for a traveling carnival, using just a handful of key voices instead of the sometimes overwhelming barrage of talking heads in other music docs.

The film elegantly takes you through an initial year nobody was sure would hit, to a sold-out second run with the Chili Peppers, Lush, Jesus & Mary Chain, Pearl Jam, Ice Cube and Soundgarden. It chronicles registering thousands of voters each day, adding the stomach-churning Jim Rose Sideshow Circus to the mix, as well as a second stage that exposed audiences to such then up-and-coming acts as Rage, Tool and Stone Temple Pilots.

 

Thank you for your comment. Your comment will be published after being reviewed.
Please try again later.
We have summarized this news so that you can read it quickly. If you are interested in the news, you can read the full text here. Read more:

 /  🏆 112. in US

United States Latest News, United States Headlines

Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.

Watch Perry Farrell Talk About His Disastrous Attempt to Revive Lollapalooza in 2004A 2004 attempt to revive Lollapalooza was such a fiasco that a broke Perry Farrell nearly sold the name rights to Rick Rubin for a million dollars.
Source: RollingStone - 🏆 483. / 51 Read more »

See how they run: Mark Farrell talks crime in the SunsetMission Local is publishing a daily campaign dispatch for each of the major contenders in the mayor’s race. This week? Mark Farrell.
Source: SFnewsnow - 🏆 237. / 63 Read more »

Katy Perry Talks Possibility of Returning to 'American Idol' After Exit, Hopes for Her Replacement (Exclusive)Katy Perry told her fellow judges to keep her seat 'warm.'
Source: etnow - 🏆 696. / 51 Read more »

Padres Daily: Xander Bogaerts talks slump; Manny Machado talks opportunity; bringing it homeXander Bogaerts working through frustration of slump; Dylan Cease has ace stuff; Padres find increased opportunities eventually lead to runs
Source: sdut - 🏆 5. / 95 Read more »

CEO Talks: L.L. Bean CEO Talks Importance of Summer, U.S. Market and Tote BagsL.L. Bean's fiscal 2023 sales were $1.7 million, a slight decline compared to $1.8 million for the previous fiscal year.
Source: wwd - 🏆 24. / 68 Read more »

Katy Perry Just Created Your Perfect Spring Shoe — and She Named It After Her Daughter! (Exclusive)Katy Perry's shoe line — Katy Perry Collections — is now available to shop on HSN. The singer talks PEOPLE through her fave designs.
Source: peoplestyle - 🏆 367. / 59 Read more »