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Kim Vincent Fowley (July 21, 1939 – January 15, 2015) was an American record producer, songwriter and musician who was behind a string of novelty and cult pop rock singles in the 1960s, and managed the Runaways in the 1970s.
Fowley touted the new group the Runaways as "an all-girl answer to Grand Funk," [10] and the band signed to Kim Fowley Productions for management in September 1975. [11] The lineup of Jett, West, and Steele made its live debut [ 12 ] playing the Whisky a Go Go September 28–29, opening for Fowley's previous conceptual band the Hollywood Stars ...
The album sounds like Fowley himself was off his chump on weapons-grade pharmaceuticals – he rants, raves, seethes, spits, burps, curses, declaims, screams and hollers his way across a heavily psychedelic set of knuckle-scraping rock-outs that recall a post-lobotomy Doors attempting an MC5 b-side while piled in the back of a inexpertly driven ...
Runaways songwriter Kari Krome is suing the estate of Kim Fowley for sexual assault. She also accuses DJ and nightclub owner Rodney Bingenheimer of sexually assaulting her when she was 13.
Fowley then asked Williams to pick up a guitar and gave him an on-the-spot songwriting lesson. Fowley always denied any sexual impropriety with members of the Runaways, including in a 2013 band biography: “They can talk about it until the cows come home but, in my mind, I didn't make love to anybody in the Runaways nor did they make love to ...
The Hollywood Argyles were an American musical ensemble, assembled for studio recordings by the producer and songwriter Kim Fowley and his friend and fellow musician Gary S. Paxton. They had a US number one hit record, "Alley Oop" [1] (Lute Records 5905), [2] [3] in 1960.
UPDATED: Kari Krome, a songwriter for the 1970s all-female rock band the Runaways, has filed a lawsuit against the group’s late manager, Kim Fowley, and longtime KROQ DJ and nightclub owner ...
In July 2015, six months after Kim Fowley's death, Fuchs alleged that Fowley raped her on New Year's Eve 1975 at a party following a Runaways performance at an Orange County club. Sixteen years old at the time, Fuchs was reportedly given Quaaludes by a man she thought was a roadie and, while she was incapacitated, Fowley raped her in full view ...