KIM FOWLEY
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Kim Vincent Fowley is an American record producer, impresario, songwriter, musician, film maker, and radio actor. He is best known for his role behind a string of novelty and cult rock pop singles in the 1960s, and for managing The Runaways in the 1970s. He has been described as "one of the most colorful characters in the annals of rock & roll" and as "a shadowy cult figure well outside the margins of the mainstream." Fowley is the son of the character actor Douglas Fowley and model Timara Pace. Various locations have been cited as his birthplace, including Red Bank, New Jersey and Manila, Philippines. He was, in reality born in Los Angeles, California where he attended University High School at the same time as singers Jan Berry, Dean Torrence, Nancy Sinatra and Bruce Johnston, and actors Ryan O'Neal, James Brolin and Sandra Dee. In 1957 he was hospitalized with polio, but on his release became manager and publicist for a local band, The Sleepwalkers, who included Johnston, drummer Sandy Nelson, and, occasionally, Phil Spector.He spent some time in the armed forces, and by his own account also worked in the sex industry in Los Angeles in the late 1950s. In 1959 he began working in the music industry in various capacities for both Alan Freed and Berry Gordy. His first record as producer was "Charge" by The Renegades. During the mid-1960s Fowley publicized/consulted singer P.J. Proby and relocated for a time to London, England. Fowley wrote the lyrics for the song "Portobello Road", the B-side of Cat Stevens' first single, "I Love My Dog". He also produced an early incarnation of Slade known as the In'Betweens and the Lancasters, an instrumental rock group featuring a young Ritchie Blackmore. In 1969 Fowley produced the album I'm Back and I'm Proud for Gene Vincent. He co-wrote for Warren Zevon's first solo album, "Wanted Dead or Alive" Fowley collaborated with his friend Skip Battin, during Battin's membership as bassist with The Byrds on a number of songs. In 1974, Fowley placed an advertisement in local fanzine, Who Put the Bomp looking for female performers. He hoped to form an all girl group that he could produce and would perform his songs, but no one responded to the advert. In 1975, he met the teenage guitarist Joan Jett who expressed interest in forming an all-girl band. The 1980s saw Fowley travel to Australia where he announced that he was "looking for the new Beatles or ABBA". His search turned up power pop band 'Beathoven' who were still under a recording contract with EMI. Changing their name to The Innocents, he secured a new record deal with Trafalgar Records and produced several songs for the group. They too became a cult band in later bootlegs/re-issues. Kim became an experimental film maker after the DVD release of Mayor of the Sunset Strip. His written and directed works include: Black Room Doom, Dollboy: The Movie, Satan Of Silverlake, The Golden Road To Nowhere, Frankenstein Goes Surfing, Trailer Park's On Fire and Jukebox California. Video clips/scenes from these movies can be seen on YouTube and Myspace.
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