Black Sabbath will headline this year’s Lollapalooza festival in
Chicago, marking their only North American gig of 2012. The band was
reportedly tapped to headline Coachella at one point, but had to pull
out when Tony Iommi was diagnosed with lymphoma.
Even Lollapalooza founder Perry Farrell was doubtful that Sabbath
would be able to join the fest, which will take place on August
3rd-5th. “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,” Farrell tells Rolling Stone from São Paulo,
Brasil, where the Jane’s Addicition frontman was on hand to debut the
South American country’s first-ever installment of Lollapalooza last
weekend. “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.”
