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Lollapalooza, annual Chicago rock festival that features dozens of hip-hop, techno, and alternative rock performers over a four-day period. Lollapalooza was begun in 1991 by Jane’s Addiction leader Perry Farrell as a multicity venue for his band’s farewell tour. Farrell claimed that he chose the festival’s name—an archaic word meaning “extraordinarily impressive”—after he heard the word used in a Three Stooges film. Acts that played in that tour, which reached 20 cities across the United States and Canada, included the Rollins Band, Nine Inch Nails, and Ice-T. The events were profitable, so a similar tour was planned for 1992 with ...(100 of 328 words)

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