Newly reunited Black Sabbath will headline Lollapalooza music festival in Chicago, lineup revealed
Black Sabbath was announced as headliners at this year's Lollapalooza music festival in Chicago, as they recently re-united. Meanwhile, they'll be joined by acts from this year's Rock and Roll Hall of Famer Red Hot Chili Peppers, and Roc nation rising crooner J. Cole. Jack White, Avicii, The Black Keys and Florence and The Machine are also tapped to perform for the crowd gathering at Chicago's Grant Park later this summer, on August 3-5.
Ozzy Osbourne, Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler and Bill Ward were initially tapped for Coachella this coming weekend, but they pulled out of the gig after Tony was diagnosed with lymphoma. Once Tony completed his treatment, the band's manager Sharon Osbourne reached out to Lollapalooza organizers to accept their offer, much to Lollapalooza founder Perry Farrell's delight.
"Every festival in the world wanted Black Sabbath to perform, but at the time of the announcement they had to back off and cancel all their shows," he recently told the Rolling Stone. "It broke my heart, but I just kind of kept a little fire building, a little kindling going to see if possibly we could get Black Sabbath. I didn't have much faith."
Jane's Addiction's frontman continued sharing his thoughts about the legendary rock band, and revealed that securing them as one of the headliners was like dream come true. "They mean so much to me, and they mean so much to music in general, that I kind of feel like I'm dreaming to know that Black Sabbath is actually gonna perform at Lollapalooza," he gushed.
The other musical guests at the gig included At The Drive-In, Justice, Miike Snow and The Weeknd who are also lined up for Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival. Joining them in the performer bill are the likes of Jack White, Fun., Wale, Franz Ferdinand, Frank Ocean, The Shins and Die Antwoord.
Commenting on the diversity of the lineup, Perry said, "What you have is three to four generations - maybe five generations of people, counting Kidsapalooza - that are all going to a place in peace, to experience music and learn to like and understand and love each other. And this is one place where I can say the generation gap doesn't exist."
Lollapalooza music festival 2012 Lineup: Red Hot Chili Peppers The Black Keys Black Sabbath Jack White Florence and The Machine At the Drive-In Avicii The Shins Justice Passion Pit Sigur Ros The Weeknd M83 Miike Snow The Afghan Whigs Bloc Party Franz Ferdinand Frank Ocean J. Cole Childish Gambino Delta Spirit Metric The Temper Trap Wale Die Antwoord Dawes tUnE-yArDs The Head & The Heart The Big Pink Twin Shadow The Tallest Man on Earth Toro y Moi Dr Dog Of Monsters and Men Gary Clark Jr Alabama Shakes The Gaslight Anthem Amadou & Mariam Band of Skulls SBTRKT Tame Impala The Walkmen JJ Grey & Motro FUN. Neon Indian Dum Dum Girls Washed Out Aloe Blacc Trumpled by Turtles Bear in Heaven Blind Pilot Chairlift The Black Angels Yellow Ostrich GIVERS Polica Bombay Bicicle Club Sharon Van Etten White Rabbits Doomtree Macklemore & Ryan Lewis The Devil Makes Three Oberhofer The War on Drugs Michael Kiwanuka O Rappa Bowerbirds Orchard Lounge Mona The Growlers Hey Rosetta! JEFF the Brotherhood Anamanaguchi First Aid Kit PIDLAR Way JC Brooks & the Uptown Sound Milo Greene Los Jaivas Kopecky Family Band The Jezabels LP Yuna Walk Of the Earth Animal Kingdom Dev The Sheepdogs The Dunwells DJ Mel Empires Dry the River Helena Haley Reinhart Imaginary Cities Overdoz Ambassadors DJ Zebo Chacello Warhol Laura Warshauer Red Oblivion Bassnectar Kaskade Calvin Harris NERO Santigold Knife Party Zeds Dead Big Gigantic Skream & Benga Little Dragon Porter Robinson Sub Focus Madeon Zedd Paper-Diamond Totally Enormous Extinct Dinossaurs Star Slinger DJ Nihal The White Panda SALVA Kid Color
