Kim Fowley
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Kim Fowley: International Heroes
Review by Sandy Robertson, Sounds, 30 July 1977
I REALISE it's getting to be an obsession, but what can I do? Even Viv Goldman, between bouts of trying to convince me to do ...
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Interview by Barney Hoskyns, Rock's Backpages Audio, 1993
A brief history of Hollywood (the Fowley version); growing up in L.A., and growing up fast; getting into the music biz, and the calamity that was The Beatles. The King of the Hollyweird Night tells all.
File format: mp3; file size: 110.3mb, interview length: 1h 54' 55" sound quality: ***
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Kim Fowley: The Story of a Story-book American
Profile and Interview by Norman Jopling, Record Mirror, 18 June 1966
KIM FOWLEY sat in the Angus steak house munching buttered toast and drinking milk, happily unable to communicate with the waiters. He was wondering — ...
Pop Singles inc. the Beatles, Small Faces, John Mayall with Eric Clapton
Review by uncredited writer, Melody Maker, 6 August 1966
CUTE & POTTY RINGO ...
The Beatles, Small Faces et al: New Singles
Review by Peter Jones, Norman Jopling, Record Mirror, 6 August 1966
Wonderful new Beatles, and 2 versions of America's 'Napoleon' hit. Very good Small Faces & old Righteous Bros & Ike and Tina. Slower Nancy and ...
Report and Interview by Norman Jopling, Record Mirror, 22 October 1966
The latest West Coast way of life — rebels with a cause, & their music ...
Kim Fowley: Portrait of a Freak
Interview by uncredited writer, International Times, 31 October 1966
KIM FOWLEY is a hustler. He telephoned International Times and bombarded me with ideas. His main idea was that I should interview him and give ...
Interview by Ritchie Yorke, Rolling Stone, 20 September 1969
LOS ANGELES — Kim Fowley, the rock and roll missionary and visionary, lives in a room above a garage in Laguna, Calif., with no sheets ...
Profile by Mike Gormley, Detroit Free Press, 14 October 1969
EVER HEAR OF a guy named Kim Fowley? Fowley was the MC at the Toronto Rock and Roll Revival, which was a good job for ...
My Style of Cock: Being An Interview With Kim Fowley, In The Company Of Jeff Beck
Interview by Howard Parker, Chris Rowley, International Times, 1972
"IF YOU CAN’T get cunt, you want to be a rock ‘n’ roll Something so you can get it, and when you have it you ...
Kim Fowley: I'm Bad (Capitol 11075)
Review by Gary Kenton, Fusion, October 1972
PERSONALITY AND spunk. Isn't that what rock & roll has been missing lately? Well, here's Kim Fowley with a new album and he's got plenty ...
Kim Fowley: I'm The Most Phenomenal Man In Records!
Interview by Richard Williams, Melody Maker, 25 November 1972
KIM FOWLEY'S looking for love. "Well," he says, snuffling into a wad of Kleenex, "I'm real entertaining and I have some nice human qualities...and I'm ...
The Government and Alice Cooper’s Panties
Report by John Mendelsohn, Disc, Summer 1972
WOTTA week it’s been here in Hollywood, guys and gals, what with each and every day virtually splitting its trousers with grand and glamorous events, ...
The Rockin' Berries v. Kim Fowley. Or, The Vulture Scoops the Pool
Essay by Phil Hardy, Let It Rock, March 1973
The only time the Rockin' Berries met Kim Fowley was in Los Angeles in 1964. Phil Hardy has met them both recently and found that ...
Profile and Interview by Harvey Kubernik, Melody Maker, 17 July 1976
RUNAWAYS: the Natalie Woods, Brigitte Bardots and Ann-Margrets of rock. ...
Interview by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 18 December 1976
LOS ANGELES is the home of countless musicians and the center of the music industry, but in terms of nurturing local teen-on-the-street talent, the city ...
Kim Fowley: The Dorian Gray of Rock'n'Roll
Interview by Sandy Robertson, Sounds, 6 August 1977
TAKE A JOURNEY INTO ROCK N ROLL WITH KIM FOWLEY AND MEET...Venus & The Razorbiades, The Runaways, Juice, Teenage Prostitutes, Steven T., Zippers, Weirdos, Germs, ...
Sandy Robertson's Hollywood Confidential
Report by Sandy Robertson, Sounds, 1 September 1979
"On my first visit to Los Angeles I was conventionally prepared for almost anything except for what it really looked like – a quite beautiful ...
Kim Fowley: Snake Document Masquerade (Island ILPS 9572) **
Review by David Hepworth, Sounds, 5 January 1980
A personal harem of tasty tarts is not enough ...
Kim Fowley: Rock'n'Roll Survivor
Press Release by uncredited writer, unpublished, 1982
1957: Kim meets future Beach Boy Bruce Johnston and begins to write songs. ...
Report and Interview by Barney Hoskyns, New Musical Express, 27 November 1982
"Only the mice and the great ones are happy when I arrive." ...
Tycoon of Trash: The Life And Grimes Of Kim Fowley
Profile and Interview by Barney Hoskyns, Los Angeles Reader, June 1983
"Only the mice and the great ones are happy when I arrive" ...
Checkpoint Fowley: Chairman Kim in Berlin
Comment by Dave Rimmer, Checkpoint (Berlin), November 1992
Author's Note: This was written as a column for Checkpoint magazine in Berlin. The column was, at the beginning, nominally about nightlife, so hence all ...
Kim Fowley: Living and Dying in L.A.
Retrospective and Interview by Steve Roeser, Goldmine, 26 November 1993
IT'S A NAME (and yes, it's a man's name) that's been popping up around the music scene for roughly the past 35 years. And every ...
Memoir 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 ...
Riding Shotgun in Swinging London
Memoir 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 ...
Smells Like Nirvana: Hollywood Poptopia
Memoir by Kim Fowley, Rock's Backpages, 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 ...
Memoir by Kim Fowley, Rock's Backpages, 1999
On Being the Rock’n’ Roll Rupert Everett ...
Memoir by Kim Fowley, Rock's Backpages, 2000
Kim Fowley reveals how L.A. ultravixens the Runaways were formed – and how he helped give birth to Hollywood punk. ...
A Teenage Opera: Testing… Testing…
Retrospective by Kieron Tyler, MOJO, February 2004
Brainchild of German Phil Spector wannabe Mark Wirtz and UK psych hopefuls Tomorrow, A Teenage Opera promised to be the grandest psychedelic production of the ...
Mike Ross-Trevor: "Are We Rolling?"
Interview by Paul Gorman, The Word, May 2004
In forty years of recording everyone from Dylan and Hendrix to Abba and Lena Zavaroni, a studio engineer sees a lot of strange things. ...
Welcome To The Weird World of Kim Fowley
Retrospective and Interview by Rob Hughes, Uncut, March 2005
"I can kill people, cheat, seduce, amuse and abuse. When they drop a bomb, I'll get a hard-on, go out into the street and I'll ...
Review by Steve Roeser, hollywoodconcerts.com, December 2009
EVEN BEFORE KIM FOWLEY (born 1939, Hollywood, California) hosted a weekly four-hour music program on satellite radio, a lot of people already knew his name, ...
Sex sells: The Girl Band That Changed Pop Forever
Retrospective by Chris Salewicz, The Independent, 19 March 2010
IN EARLY OCTOBER 1976, the Runaways, an all-girl five-piece from Los Angeles, played a sell-out show at London's Roundhouse, their debut date in the UK. ...
The Runaways: Teenage Rampage!
Retrospective by Kris Needs, Record Collector, August 2010
WITH THE RUNAWAYS the subject of a Hollywood movie, Kris Needs charts the turbulent story behind the trailblazing female rock'n'roll band. ...
Kim Fowley: Impresario, Svengali, Saint, Devil
Report and Interview by Evelyn McDonnell, Los Angeles Times, 1 April 2012
KIM FOWLEY pulls DVDs, fliers, CDs, a hospital admission slip and more DVDs out of a jumble of media on the mixing board of a ...
Obituary by Richard Williams, The Guardian, 18 January 2015
FEW PEOPLE IN pop music spanned such a range as Kim Fowley, the record producer, songwriter and Sunset Strip svengali who has died aged 75. ...
The Domino Effect: How One of Toronto's Most Iconic Rock Concerts Almost Never Happened
Retrospective by Juliette Jagger, Noisey, 13 April 2015
FOR MANY, the Toronto Rock and Roll Revival of 1969 is the stuff of legends. For some, like famed rock promoter and pop culture icon ...
Memoir by Nick Kent, unpublished, 15 June 2020
IT'S BEEN FIVE hours now since I received the news that Marc Zermati died in his sleep and — as with all deaths of those ...
California Eden: Sun, Surf, Sex, and Some Great Music
Interview by Bob Ruggiero, Houston Press, 22 March 2021
THE OLD ADAGE goes that high school is the place to experience "the best years of your life." And while that's hardly a universal feeling, ...
see also Runaways, The
see also B. Bumble & The Stingers
see also Venus & the Razorblades
see also Hollywood Argyles, The
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