A new documentary on Lollapalooza is coming. The first trailer for “Lolla: The Story of Lollapalooza” is out (above) and it features Rage Against the Machine, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Ice Cube, Soundgarden, Tool, Hole, Foo Fighters, Sonic Youth, Arrested Development, Primus, Alice in Chains, the Verve, Beastie Boys, the Breeders, A Tribe Called Quest, the Smashing Pumpkins, Pearl Jam, Sinead O’Connor, Questlove & the Roots and the Ramones. The project will premiere on May 21 on Paramount+. It also features commentary from Rage Against the Machine’s Tom Morello, Metallica’s Lars Ulrich, Red Hot Chili Peppers’ Flea, Nine Inch Nails’ Trent Reznor, and more.
The first ever Lollapalooza concert in Dallas happened on August 23, 1991, at the (then named) Coca-Cola Starplex, and featured live performances from Jane's Addiction, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Living Colour, Nine Inch Nails, Ice-T, Butthole Surfers, Henry Rollins Band, Fishbone, Violent Femmes.
Check out the MTV News report from a month prior, July 1991, at the VERY FIRST Lollapalooza in Phoenix, Arizona.