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David Ferguson was an American international outsider-culture impresario, activist, music producer and concert promoter. Over his career, most of which has been spent on the West Coast, he worked with musical acts such as the Avengers,[1][2][3] John Lydon (a.k.a. Johnny Rotten),[4][5] Billy Bragg,[6][7] Iggy Pop,[3][5] Bad Brains,[8] Black Flag,[8] and Butthole Surfers[9] and visual artists Vaughn Bode,[10] Jean-Michel Basquiat,[3] and Barry McGee.[3] Ferguson worked with multi-discipline artists such as avant-garde musician and spoken-word artist Lydia Lunch and the psychedelic drag queen performance group the Cockettes.[2][3]
The San Francisco Chronicle referred to Ferguson as the "godfather of the unorthodox", adding that Ferguson "...not only thinks outside the box — he crushes it, dances on top of it, reinvents it and calls it whatever he likes. He has spent his life making trouble."[1] The East Bay Express wrote, "David Ferguson's life story reads like an encyclopedia of the underground."[2]
Ferguson founded and headed the Institute for Unpopular Culture, a San Francisco-based arts organization. Through IFUC, Ferguson has maintained his involvement in anti-war protests, an activism which dates back to his student days at the University of Miami in the 1960s.[11][12] Ferguson died unexpectedly after a brief illness on July 24, 2015 at the age of 69, in San Francisco, California[citation needed].
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