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Race to find record producer Kim Fowley’s body for Girls & Corpses photoshoot
By Andy Malt | Published on Thursday 22 January 2015
I think if there’s any argument to be had for not allowing the government to further snoop on our online activity, it’s my Google history after researching this story. Without the context I’m about to lay down for you, it could look… odd. Thankfully I have this outlet to clear the whole thing up should questions be asked. What the hell are you going to do?
This story relates to musician and producer Kim Fowley, who died from bladder cancer earlier this month. His dying wish, it is claimed, was for his body to be mutilated in a photoshoot for Girls & Corpses magazine – a fine example of finding a niche in order to stay afloat in these troubled times for print media.
According to TMZ, Fowley wrote to the magazine’s publisher offering to leave money to cover the costs of the shoot, which would be led by his then girlfriend, fetish model Snow Mercy. He is said to have written: “Snow and her fetish friends, could mutilate the body, providing real blood and guts and set my bones and blood on fire”.
The magazine apparently declined the mutilation and fire parts of the request, but agreed to set up the rest of the photoshoot once he had passed on. The only problem now is that he subsequently split up with Snow, and later married another woman, Peermusic’s Kara Wright. Since Fowley’s death on 15 Jan, the magazine has reportedly been unable to contact Wright to arrange carrying out the plan.
Who knows if any of this is true? Not me. But, like I said, I have a search history to account for. It is true though that Fowley, who worked with artists including Kiss, Alice Cooper and, most recently, Ariel Pink, did record a video endorsing Girls & Corpses from his deathbed.
