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Billie Joe Armstrong Says Perry Farrell Didn't Want Green Day to Perform at Lollapalooza '94. How the Band Retaliated
"I can’t think of a single time that Perry pushed back or vetoed a band — except for Green Day," recalled stage manager John Rubeli. Tim Mosenfelder/Getty Armstrong, 53, said Farrell was "a f ...
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Why Perry Farrell didn’t want Green Day on the Lollapalooza bill: “He was like, ‘They’re a boy band. I don’t want to book a boy band’”
Green Day might have been the opening act at the 1994 Lollapalooza festival, but there was no love lost between them and the festival’s founder, Perry Farrell. Indeed the Jane’s Addiction singer ...
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Billie Joe Armstrong Says Perry Farrell Dismissed Green Day as a ‘Boy Band,’ Tried to Block Group From ’94 Lollapalooza Lineup
A slot on the 1994 Lollapalooza lineup was almost relegated to Green Day‘s boulevard of broken dreams when festival founder Perry Farrell supposedly tried to block the band from performing ...