![]() ![]() ![]() “The FBI guys came to our shows, and they’d stand next to the speakers to see if we were singing anything off-colour. Edgar Hoover felt we were corrupting the moral fibre of America’s youth,” Mike Mitchell, guitarist and founding member of The Kingsmen, told me in 2016. And behind its feel good, three-chord groove, there were rumoured to be some salacious messages that were threatening the morality of America's youth. That spring, they had released a single called Louie Louie. Somewhere down the Bureau's list of offenders was a band of five teenage musicians from Portland who called themselves The Kingsmen. Among the Ten Most Wanted Fugitives listed by the FBI in 1963 were counterfeiters, embezzlers and a bank robber who dyed his hair a different coloir every month and stuffed cotton in his nose and mouth to disguise the shape of his face. ![]()
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