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Six and a half feet tall and uglier than he could be, Kim Fowley
was born on the day Hitler invaded Poland. He grew up in the last
Babylonian days of tarnished Hollywood. His dad played Doc Holliday
in the TV series Wyatt Earp, and sent young Kim to finishing school
- where he shared an inkwell with Nancy Sinatra.
Fuelled on Elvis, Frankie Lymon and the whole American Graffiti
drive-in fumble, Fowley befriended fellow freak Phil Spector before
embarking on his quest to justify girlfriend Candice Bergen's
assertion that he would make "dog crap rock and roll
records".
Flitting between LA, Swinging London (he stood in the audience at
the Richmond Athletic Club with Eric Clapton watching The Rolling
Stones and worked with Cat Stevens and P J Proby's hairdresser,
Spider) and the black country rock of pre-Slade incarnation The N'
Betweens, Fowley was always there.
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