Kim Fowley (1939-2015) was an American rebel, cult figure and musical jack-of-all-trades - singer, songwriter, musician and producer - often working outside mainstream limits. He seems to have been involved with about everyone in the fifties and sixties - Phil Spector, Barry Gordy, P.J. Proby, Cat Stevens, Zappa, John Lennon and Family, just to name a few - and many more in the seventies and eighties. I can't count them all here so for full story go to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kim_Fowley . 1970 he visited Sweden and helped out at the newly started independent MNW label. Among other things produced albums for the domestic acts Contact and Scorpion and also recorded this solo album. Can't find any backing credits, but since it was recorded at the same time as Contact's "Nobody Wants To Be Sixteen" https://monolover.blogspot.com/2013/04/contactnobody-wants-to-be-sixteen-mnwl.html and Contact member Lorne DeWolfe stands as co-writer to three of the tracks that's probably the band behind the man here. I like it a lot. A mix of rather rude garage rockers and ballads, most with political, or at least concerned, lyrics. Odd, but also engaging, with lots of zest. Favorite tracks - "Night Of The Hunter", "Is America Dead?" and the "Cadillac" cover. 1970 release in Sweden onyl, reissued 1990 on black/orange label. French 1993 CD on Spalax (14260) and 2012 vinyl on Klimt Records (MJJ 348 LP). Premiere Swedish had label as shown here on thick unflexible vinyl in a matt fold/out cover with record pocket inside. (NÅY*) (CCÖ*) (SWÄU*)
You forgot to add rapist to his list of 'achievements'.
SvaraRaderaDon't understand. Was he known to have raped somebody???
RaderaAlleged to have raped one of The Runaways.
SvaraRaderahttps://highline.huffingtonpost.com/articles/en/the-lost-girls/
If true that's very bad, but doesn't diminish his musical input. Not defending any act like that, just finding it hard to be moral about what was going on in the rock'n'roll world from the sixties and on when listening to the records. It was a man's world and females were often treated badly. But even if the artists sometimes behaved like predators they still left us lots of good music to enjoy.
Radera