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Los Angeles, California, USA
Lawrence "Larry" Wayne "Wild Man" Fischer was an American street performer known for offering erratic, acapella performances of "new kinds of songs" for a nickel or a dime each on the Sunset Strip in West Hollywood. Most of his life was spent homeless or institutionalized, and he later became regarded as "the godfather of outsider music". In 1968, he recorded a double album, An Evening with Wild…
Known for
- From Straight to Bizarre — Self2012
- Derailroaded — Self2005
- Larry 'Wild Man' Fischer — Self2002
- Zabagabee — Self1987
- Frank Zappa — Self (archive footage)1971
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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United States
- Active from
- 1944-11-06
- Active to
- 2011-06-16
Discography
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Larry "Wild Man" Fischer was born Lawrence Wayne Fischer, 1944 in Los Angeles, USA. Fischer has been variously described as a jobless, homeless, paranoid, certified-psychotic street singer, and as the missing link between Syd Barrett and Homer Simpson. He passed away in June of 2011 Fischer was institutionalized at age 19 for attacking his mother with a knife. Following his release, Fischer wandered L.A. singing his unique brand of songs for 10¢ to by-passers. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Family name
- Fischer
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Los Angeles
- Place of death
- Los Angeles
- Occupation
- guitarist
- Instrument
- voice
- Record label
- Bizarre Records
- Image
- Wild man fisher.jpg
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- date of birth
- 1944-11-06
- date of death
- 2011-06-16
- cause of death
- heart failure
- manner of death
- natural causes
- medical condition
- schizophrenia
- start of work period
- 1968-00-00
- end of work period
- 2006-00-00
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