“With a career in the music business spanning over fifty years, Fowley was a singularly unique figure in the realms of rock history.”
Fowley worked with a wide range of artists, including Paul Revere and the Raiders, the Modern Lovers, Blue Cheer, Kiss and Helen Reddy.
But he will be remembered in the rock and roll history books for helping form the California punk band, “The Runaways.”
That all-female group, which featured Joan Jett, released four albums in the late 1970s. One of their hit songs was “Cherry Bomb.”
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Fowley was known as a Los Angeles Sunset Strip character, often dressing in outrageous suits and pitching his latest project.
“He would do anything to seize the moment, he was kind of indestructible and you have to admire that,” said DeCurtis.
“It’s necessary for a band to have charisma, and it’s necessary for a band to have a Kim Fowley in there someplace. The behind-the-scenes people are as much a part of rock ‘n’ roll as the guys onstage … Kim Fowley is a necessary evil” he told the San Diego Reader in 2012.
