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Kim Fowley

Kim Fowley

The greatest hustler in the history of rock'n'roll, Fowley is an Angeleno who has been involved with thousands of artists from B. Bumble & the Stingers to the Runaways.

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Kim Fowley: Into The Sinister ’70s

Book Excerpt by Kim Fowley, Rock's Backpages, 1999

AS WE ALL KNOW, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix and Jim Morrison all died in fairly quick succession as the ’70s began. By the time Jim ...

Kim Fowley: Riding Shotgun in Swinging London

Book Excerpt by Kim Fowley, Rock's Backpages, 1999

The arrival of The Beatles in 1964 convinced Kim Fowley that he had no immediate future as a freelance record producer in his native Los ...

Kim Fowley: Smells Like Nirvana: Hollywood Poptopia

Book Excerpt by Kim Fowley, 'A Vampire From Outer Space', 1999

IN THE LATE '50s, I decided I would go into rock and roll. By then it was really exploding. At this point, L.A. hadn’t had ...

Kim Fowley: The Thoughts of Chairman Kim

Book Excerpt by Kim Fowley, Rock's Backpages, 1999

On Being the Rock’n’ Roll Rupert Everett ...

Kim Fowley, Runaways, The: King of the Nighttime World

Book Excerpt by Kim Fowley, Rock's Backpages, 2000

In an exclusive extract from his forthcoming memoirs VAMPIRE FROM OUTER SPACE, Kim Fowley reveals how L.A. ultravixens The Runaways were formed – and how ...

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