Fyre Festival Is Just the Latest in a Long Line of Music Festivals Gone Wrong

May 03, 2017, 12:44 PM

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The world has been gawking with unabashed schadenfreude at the "luxury" Fyre music festival's slow-motion implosion on a Bahamian island this past week. Everything from logistics to security, food and accommodation went wrong at an event described as Rich Kids of Instagram meets Hunger Games. But while Fyre was an epic fail, it isn't the first music festival to have encountered major problems (if, indeed, the hastily aborted Fyre can actually be counted as a "music festival").