BORN IN A KOSHER MEAT STORE: THE FUgS STORY.

On a cold December day, in converted Kosher meat store, in 1964, Ed Sanders, editor of the infamous Fuck You: A Magazine of the Arts, and Tuli Kupferberg, Allen Ginsberg’s favorite fatalist, formed The Fugs. The band earned immediate notoriety (and F.B.I. files!) for lewd performances rife with political satire.
In 1965, the band released their first album, The Village Fugs, and headed out on a tour in protest of the Vietnam War- performing “War Kills Babies” and “Kill For Peace” alongside such counterculture greats as Frank Zappa, Allen Ginsberg, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, and Jefferson Airplane.

That was only the first year! The next 44 are even crazier!- including a Life Magazine cover, a letter bomb, a Grammy, J. Edgar Hoover, and Thurston Moore (seriously dudes).

For a first hand account of 4 decades of Fug Life from band member Ed Sanders, click here

For the Rolling Stone Review: The Fugs Final Cd (Part I) click here.

Check out these Fug-related articles from The New York Times:

The Fugs Look Back to 1967’s Summer of Love
Rock 'n' Roll Dissidents, Fearless for 4 Decades