Lollapalooza's weird, wild history
The first-ever show of the first-ever Lollapalooza tour took place on July 18, 1991, on a 120-degree day in the Arizona desert. It was so hot that Nine Inch Nails' equipment melted, and Trent Reznor, front man of the then-baby band, stormed off dramatically after trashing the stage ('Fire everyone,' he instructed a roadie). Dave Navarro and Perry Farrell, members of headlining band Jane's Addiction, came to blows during their set; no one was sure they'd make it to the next date of the six-week nationwide tour. 'Lollapalooza: The Uncensored Story of Alternative Rock's Wildest Festival' is a riotous oral history of the granddaddy of alterna-tours, written by music journalists Richard Bienstock and Tom Beaujour.
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