Don Was
Detroit school friends David Weiss and Don Was (real name Don Fagenson) crafted
some of the kookiest pop music of the 1980s, mixing together funk, disco, jazz
and dance rhythms and recruiting a wide range of artists to record their
satirical party anthems. They released an electro album of Hank Williams songs,
worked with musicians as diverse as the MC5, Leonard Cohen, Iggy Pop and Frank
Sinatra and scored a string of club hits; including the UK Top 5 single Shake
Your Head featuring vocals from Ozzy Osbourne. It all helped earn Was a
reputation as one of the world's leading prod...
