“Wanna buy a song for a dime?” For many startled UCLA students and Sunset Strip sightseers in the 1960s, that was the way Larry “Wild Man” Fischer introduced himself. Anyone who took him ...

This triumvirate rather overshadowed albums by the controversial comedian Lenny Bruce, the groupie ensemble The GTOs – Girls Together Outrageously – and "Wild Man" Fischer, a mentally ill ...

Larry “Wild Man” Fischer, the former mental patient and ubiquitous street musician who briefly attained stardom as one of the first signings to Frank Zappa‘s Bizarre imprint, died in Los ...

YOU don’t have to be crazy to sing like Larry “Wild Man” Fischer – subject of Josh Rubin’s reverential documentary “Derailroaded” – but it helps. Fischer is a paranoid ...

A precursor of mentally ill outsider artists like Daniel Johnston and Wesley Willis whose “genius” is in the eye of the beholder, Larry “Wild Man” Fischer is still a one-of-a-kind ...

Larry “Wild Man” Fischer, the former mental patient and ubiquitous street musician who briefly attained stardom as one of the first signings to Frank Zappa‘s Bizarre imprint, died in Los ...

“Wanna buy a song for a dime?” For many startled UCLA students and Sunset Strip sightseers in the 1960s, that was the way Larry “Wild Man” Fischer introduced himself. Anyone who took him ...