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Kim Fowley

 


Novelty song writer, record producer, publicist, autobiography writer and musician Kim Vincent Fowley was born in Los Angeles, California, on 21 July 1939. He attended the University High School, whose other contemporary pupils included Jan Berry and Dean Torrence (Jan and Dean), (Beach Boy) Bruce Johnston, and Nancy Sinatra. In 1957 he developed polio and was hospitalised. When he was released from hospital he became publicist for band The Sleepwalkers, whose line up included Phil Spector and Sandy Nelson.

He spent some time in the armed forces, but in 1959 he began working in the music industry for Berry Gordy of Motown and the disc jockey/presenter Alan Freed. The first record he produced was “Charge” by The Renegades. His work at this time introduced him to his collaborator Gary S. Paxton and they produced a million selling hit for The Hollywood Argyles, a studio creation.

In the mid 60s he was working for the controversial singer P. J. Proby and was based for a time in London.

Kim Fowley died regarded as a Los Angeles music legend, after a career in music spanning six decades, from cancer of the bladder in Los Angeles on 15 January 2015. After his death there were allegations of a sexual nature against him.

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