As Vulture.com says, “a powerful piece of journalism” that could leave you “nauseated for the rest of the day”. Fowley’s dead and can’t answer back, but others support Fox’s claim.
http://highline.huffingtonpost.com/articles/en/the-lost-girls/
The Runaways, Kim Fowley, Jackie Fox and an ugly story
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I’m not sure “thanks for posting” is exactly what I mean, but that was some me good journalism.
Thanks for posting
Kim Fowley? Colour me staggered. They’ll be digging something up about Gilles de Rais next.
Yes, sad and awful though that article was, it describes pretty much how I thought Kim Fowley treated the Runaways.
I’m sure there are examples to be had before the 1970s, but I’ve always had an almost instinctive feeling about the music industry post-60s, an in-built hatred of it, and I see absolutely no reason to re-evaluate my original stance.
I wonder why Operation Yewtree isn’t hot on some of the big names of the music industry, rather than the easier targets they’ve unearthed?
Not news (Fowley was a notorious sleaze dawg, like Rodney Biggenheimer), but dismal all the same.
Even creepier than Fowley’s posthumous appearance in Girls & Corpses magazine.
No surprises there, particularly when my eye fell on Bingenheimer’s name. As an aside, I find US journalism pompous and self-regarding in the extreme. Their belief that they are participating in a higher calling is laughable. Give me our wretched, cynical hacks any day.
I’d had intimations of this from things Cherie Currie has said in the past. Sounds all too real to me.