Pamela Des Barres
Groupie
Name at birth: Pamela Miller
Pamela Des Barres is famous as an unabashed rock groupie and celebrity-lover. Though she performed with the 1960s all-girl group The GTOs and had bit parts in a few movies, her real fame rests on her liaisons with rock legends like Mick Jagger and Jim Morrison. In 1987 she published a tell-all book titled I'm With the Band: Confessions of a Groupie. The book was a hit, making her perhaps the most famous groupie in the history of rock and roll. In 1992 she published a sequel, Take Another Little Piece of My Heart: A Groupie Grows Up.
Extra credit: Des Barres was one inspiration for the character Penny Lane, played by Kate Hudson in the 2000 movie Almost Famous.
Four Good Links
Groupie Central: Pamela des Barres
An introduction to Des Barres' exploits, from an archived edition of the old site Groupie Central
Pamela Des Barres Official Site
Not up-to-date, but with photos and some nice archived articles
Friends Magazine Archive
A museum piece: photos and text from a British rock magazine c. 1970
Swinging Chicks of the '60s
Des Barres gets more props from this cheerfully retro website
Vital Stats
Birth
9 September 1948
(age 59)
Birthplace
Death
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Best Known As
Author of I'm With the Band
