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RIP Kim Fowley, 75
« on: January 15, 2015, 05:06:07 PM »
Fowley died of undisclosed causes, although he was rumored to have been undergoing cancer treatment in recent months.

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/kim-fowley-runaways-dead-at-75-20150115
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Re: RIP Kim Fowley, 75
« Reply #1 on: January 15, 2015, 07:32:10 PM »
Amazing guy -- as I've already posted on FB, any guy who worked with The Runaways and Helen Reddy IN THE SAME FUCKING YEAR deserves some kinda props.  Not to mention the rest of his voluminous list of credits.
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Re: RIP Kim Fowley, 75
« Reply #2 on: January 16, 2015, 10:18:10 AM »
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Re: RIP Kim Fowley, 75
« Reply #3 on: January 16, 2015, 10:49:08 AM »
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Re: RIP Kim Fowley, 75
« Reply #4 on: January 16, 2015, 12:41:35 PM »
There's this, though.

http://www.spin.com/articles/sex-rock-rape-cherie-curries-untold-runaways-story/

oh, it's a given that he was a creep.

There's quite a bit of interview footage with him in "The Mayor of Sunset Strip," the documentary about Rodney Bingenheimer. Fowley comes off as a major jerk at the very least, but since he was in his 60s at the time it was shot, it's easy to assume he was worse when he was younger. (Bingenheimer was his own flavor of weird, for that matter.) Worth seeing in any case, if you haven't before.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0230512/
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Re: RIP Kim Fowley, 75
« Reply #5 on: January 16, 2015, 05:43:55 PM »
There's this, though.

http://www.spin.com/articles/sex-rock-rape-cherie-curries-untold-runaways-story/

oh, it's a given that he was a creep.

There's quite a bit of interview footage with him in "The Mayor of Sunset Strip," the documentary about Rodney Bingenheimer. Fowley comes off as a major jerk at the very least, but since he was in his 60s at the time it was shot, it's easy to assume he was worse when he was younger. (Bingenheimer was his own flavor of weird, for that matter.) Worth seeing in any case, if you haven't before.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0230512/

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