Archive for January, 2010
In the mid 70s, the fairly repulsive svengali producer Kim Fowley picked up five teenage girls at Rodney Bingenheimer’s English Disco – the glam rock place to be in Los Angeles – to form the first all-female, all-teenage hard rock band The Runaways.
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Tags: cherie curry, glam punk, glam rock, joan jett, los angeles glam, proto punk, Punk, rock n roll, the runaways
Happy birthday, Rio Reiser
09Jan10
If he were still alive, Rio Reiser would turn 60 today. Vocalist and main songwriter of 1970s Berlin band Ton Steine Scherben, he led a rock group unlike any other in the world.
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Tags: 1968, anarchism, berlin, communism, mc5, proto punk, rio reiser, rock, ton steine scherben
