Perry Farrell

Perry Farrell is an artist and a founder of Lollapalooza, which the festival’s official account dates to a touring launch in 1991 and an annual Chicago event from 2005. This profile records the founding work historically. It does not convert festival identity into a claim about a current executive office, legal ownership percentage or sole responsibility for subsequent editions.

The change in format is economically meaningful. A touring festival moves a programme between markets; a recurring city festival builds a different relationship with a site, local suppliers and an annual calendar. The official history establishes the two dates without providing a like-for-like profitability comparison. Live Index’s existing Lollapalooza and C3 records explain the later production and control structure from their own sources, so readers do not have to infer corporate ownership from the artist’s name or the continuing brand.

SPIN’s 2011 oral history preserves the collaborative production: Marc Geiger and Don Muller booked acts, Ted Gardner organized production, Missy Worth enlisted local artists and activist groups, and Michael Jobson and Kevin Lyman served as stage managers. The participants describe a farewell-tour experiment, not a sole-founder corporate history. This division of labour matters because artist selection, local participation and physical production are different responsibilities. Live Index retains the peer links to Geiger and Lyman while the company register explains later C3 production and control from its own evidence. The record does not assert a current legal ownership percentage or repeat the promotional claim that Lollapalooza was the first multi-day festival.