Music
Lou Adler didn’t need his memory jogged to recall a disastrous test screening of “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” in Santa Barbara in 1975.
Oct. 19, 2016
The onetime pop music trend-setter has long shunned the spotlight. Now he’s parted the curtains on his past -- but only for a cause.
Oct. 27, 2002
Aug. 25, 2017
Paul Tollett, head of concert promoter Goldenvoice, and veteran record executive, producer and promoter Lou Adler, a key figure behind the original Monterey festival, talk about the festival 50 years later.
June 7, 2017
In 1973, music mogul Lou Adler and a dream team of bizzers opened the Roxy Theatre. 50 years later, the club’s still going strong, as is the 89-year-old Adler.
July 18, 2023
In 1967 the Monterey Pop Festival served as a launch pad for such luminaries as Jimi Hendrix, the Who, Janis Joplin and the Grateful Dead.
June 9, 2017
World & Nation
A former Lake Hughes trailer park will be the sixth camp for sick kids in Newman’s chain.
Aug. 20, 2000
I was delighted to read Lou Adler’s account of the Monterey International Pop Festival (“Flash Back to the Real Pop Mart,” July 6).
July 13, 1997
Between bites of vegan ramen at the bustling Grand Central Market in downtown Los Angeles, Nic Adler is trying to explain what he finds so gratifying about events like the Arroyo Seco Weekend, the Eat Drink Vegan culinary festival and the now-gone Sunset Strip Music Festival.
June 15, 2018
Can one of the key figures behind the landmark 1967 Monterey Pop Festival do for children’s music what he did for rock ‘n’ roll?
June 11, 1993