The wild world of rock and roll groupies was filled with sex, drugs, outrageous escapades, and scandals that were sometimes stranger than fiction. During the 1960s and 1970s, a colorful cast of women became almost as legendary as the musicians they pursued. There was Cynthia Plaster Caster, who immortalized rock stars’ most intimate anatomy in plaster; Pamela Des Barres, the self-proclaimed Queen of the Groupies, whose romantic adventures included Mick Jagger, Jimmy Page, and Jim Morrison; and “Sweet Connie” Hamzy, whose backstage exploits earned her a mention in a Grand Funk Railroad hit. Dallas’s notorious Butter Queen, Barbara Cope, became famous for her unusual sexual antics, while model Bebe Buell’s relationships with rock royalty resulted in one of music’s most famous paternity secrets. But beneath the glamorous excess lurked a darker reality, as teenage groupies Lori Mattix and Sable Starr became entangled with much older rock stars, and the flamboyant Miss Mercy endured a harrowing descent into drug addiction. From bizarre sexual adventures and legendary backstage encounters to exploitation, near-fatal overdoses, and shattered lives, these women offer a fascinating glimpse behind the curtain of rock and roll’s most decadent era—where the groupies sometimes had stories even wilder than the stars themselves.
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