October is packed with great movies and several new and returning TV series. [5] He promoted records for the duo Skip & Flip (Skip Battin and Gary S. Paxton) including the #11 hit "Cherry Pie".

In 1986, Fowley spotted the band Shanghai (consisting of Eric Leach and Taz Rudd of Symbol Six, Brent Muscat of Faster Pussycat, Patrick Muzingo, and Todd Muscat of Decry) at the Troubadour. The band members were: Ed Bissot (bass), Bill Kirkland (guitars), Vic Sabino (vocals, harmonica and percussion), Michael 'Papabax' Baxter (keyboards, arranger), and Shelly Scott (drums).

"Hello, Dan DeLuca, City of Brotherly Love God," he sings, oohs on cue.

", Cue the boo-boos: "Tears of rock-and-roll," sings Fowley, a sometime recording artist, " .

So we asked him to produce us, and he was, like, 'Do I get paid?' "I was their Malcolm McLaren, I was their George Martin," Fowley says. Kim Fowley: “International Heroes” (1973) By the ‘70s, Fowley had delivered a pretty wide scattershot of work—songs for flower children, singer/songwriter ballads, and sexually charged stuff. [1][9], During the mid-1960s, Fowley publicized/consulted singer P.J. [14] Fowley collaborated with his friend Skip Battin during Battin's membership as bassist with the Byrds on a number of songs which appeared on their early 1970's albums: "The Hungry Planet", "You All Look Alike", "Tunnel of Love", "Citizen Kane", "Absolute Happiness", "Precious Kate", and "America's Great National Pastime". He has been described as "one of the most colorful characters in the annals of rock & roll", as well as "a shadowy cult figure well outside the margins of the mainstream".[1]. He made recordings with Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers, which were eventually released in 1981 as The Original Modern Lovers. The group severed their ties with Fowley in 1977.[2]. ", These days, Kim Fowley is happy to offer his rock-and-roll expertise to anyone, for the right price.

[7] In 1959 he began working in the music industry in various capacities for both Alan Freed and Berry Gordy.

The album was engineered by Michael Lloyd.

The movie is based on Currie's memoir, Neon Angel: The Cherie Currie Story, which emphasizes her relationship with her twin sister Marie. In 1984, still owning rights to the name "the Runaways", Fowley rebuilt the image around Gayle Welch, an unknown teenager from New Zealand. In the mid-'70s, "on a Darwinian level, men were getting more and more feminine, so you'd figure that there'd be a girl standing there eventually.

After a long battle with bladder cancer, Kim Fowley, an impresario, record producer and scenester best known for his work with the Runaways, has died. They too became a cult band in later bootlegs/reissues. In 1979, Fowley signed new artists, such as Tommy Rock, the Popsicles, and the Orchids. "And the new Christopher Walken, Michael Shannon, did a wonderful job of playing me. The details of Currie's memoir were unfamiliar to Fowley: "Joan and I have the same memories, and Cherie's memories are different than ours. Kim Vincent Fowley (July 21, 1939 – January 15, 2015) was an American record producer, singer, songwriter and musician. [2] He produced a Them spin-off band led by two ex-Them members, brothers Pat and Jackie McAuley (who were only allowed to use the band name Other Them in the UK, but called themselves Them on the European continent, releasing an album called Them Belfast Gypsies and a single "Let's Freak Out" under the name Freaks of Nature); an early incarnation of Slade known as the N'Betweens; Soft Machine (he produced "Love Makes Sweet Music", their first single); and the Lancasters, an instrumental rock group featuring a young Ritchie Blackmore. In 1978, Fowley formed the Orchids, another all-female rock band, with Laurie McAllister, the last bassist from The Runaways, and Sandy Fury,[16] a 13-year-old rock prodigy on rhythm guitar and vocals. The bulk of the Crazy White Man shows took place during 2008 and included the Tribute to Gidget Gein, which raised funds for Gidget's Hollywood Forever memorial.[21].

"He's a legend," says singer-guitarist Evan "Muck" Shore. He was 75.

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In 1975, he met the teenage guitarist Joan Jett who expressed interest in forming an all-female band.