Attributions and Artist Statement
Music Groupie School Desk from the Groupie Feminism art series
Music Groupie School Desk art assemblage
57” x 50” x 20”
Desk
14” x 8” x 13 1/2”
Wall collage (behind desk)
28” x 29 1/2”
Floor collage (under desk)
29” x 20 1/2”
Magazine covers, articles, and advertisements (in the wall collage)
4” x 4” (give or take 1” - 3” for the ads)
Comics (in the floor collage)
3” x 4 1/4”
Women Who Rock book
2” x 2 1/4”
Angry Women in Rock book
2” x 2”
Guitar necklace (the guitar not the chain)
4 1/2” x 2”
Cassette with pencil pin
1” x 1 1/2”
Larger books
2 1/4” x 1 1/2”
Smaller books
1 3/4” x 1”
VHS tapes
2” x 1”
Strip of 4 stamps
7” x 1 1/4”
Eye glitter
1 1/2” x 1 1/2”
Lipstick with blue heart
3 1/4” x 1”
Cassettes
1” x 3/4”
Record jackets
2 1/2” x 3”
DVDs
2” x 1 1/2”
45s
2” x 2”
6 small comic books
2 1/2” x 2”
Lithofayne Pridgon’s lyrics
3 1/2” x 2 1/2”
Sandra’s lyrics
3 1/4” x 2 1/2”
Pop Tarts composition book by Cherry Vanilla
2 1/2” x 2”
Cynthia Plaster Caster’s book proposal (her memoir!)
3 1/2” x 2 1/2”
Record case
3 1/2” x 3” x 1 1/4”
Record player
3 1/2” x 5 1/2” x 1”
Adapters for 45s
1 1/2” x 1 1/2”
Tape recorder with microphone
3” x 3 1/2” x 3/4”
School desk, American Girl accessories
1 composition book
2 sets lyrics (3 pages total)
1 book proposal (with a green paper clip my mom gave to me)
50 comic book covers (underneath the desk)
6 comic books
48 hardcover books
17 paperback books
2 photos (1 from a 45 sleeve, 1 from film liner notes, both atop comic book floor)
1 album title circle (next to comic book floor)
7 VHS tapes
12 DVDs
28 45s (stacked under desk and 4 scattered on floor)
43 albums (stacked under desk)
71 magazine covers, ads in magazines, articles, and one liner note sleeve picture and one record album (backdrop to the desk)
4 cassette tapes
3 business cards
2 8-tracks
1 actual cassette tape
1 actual 8-track
1 pencil
1 record player, blue, with record, American Girl accessories
1 tape recorder with microphone, American Girl accessories
1 blue and white record case, American Girl accessories
Hearts and flowers stickers in various gemstone colors
3 actual record adaptors for 45s: 2 black, 1 yellow (the yellow one is from Amoeba records)
1 Groupie Couture by Pamela Des Barres necklace of a sparkly guitar
1 pin of a cassette with pencil
1 lipstick, “Groupie,” by Lancôme
1 eye glitter, “Groupie,” by Wet n Wild
1 strip of 4 Betty, Veronica, and Archie stamps (gift from my mom)
2 heart-shaped stickers of gold glitter
1 photocopy from a book of Lithofayne Pridgon and JimiHendrix, source unverified
1 side of a Led Zeppelin record album, Side Two, “Dazed and Confused” from The Soundtrack for the film Led Zeppelin: The Song Remains the Same, 1976 (on wall with magazines and ads)
1 photo of original artwork painted in acrylic in 2006 by me of my guitar with a record (on wall with magazines, record album, and ads)
1 copy of original collage art from 2014-2024 by me, “Some Grrrls Riot” based on The Rolling Stones Some Girls (1978) album cover
I chose each item because they are by or about or related to groupies. For example, the vinyl has songs by or about groupies, the magazines have articles by or about groupies, and the books are by or about or significantly refer to groupies. The comics refer to music and/or groupies and fandom.
The comics, cassettes, lyrics, paperbacks, hardcovers, magazines, movies, ads, tapes and vinyl are all from my Groupie Archives. I made copies of the items I’ve been collecting for years, e.g., I copied a book or album cover at a percentage of the original size, then affixed it to a modified matchbox, or to a stiff backing.
There are a lot more songs related to groupies. I included in the Music Groupie School Desk only the vinyl and cassettes I actually have. For more songs, please refer to the Groupie Playlist (which is ever growing), the Groupie Mixtape, and/or the Gold Fan, all art assemblages in my Groupie Feminism art series.
As I assembled the Music Groupie School Desk, it occurred to me that groupies were inevitable; patriarchy demands adoration of men, and advertisements promote sexuality. My mom, Lucretia Baldwin “Teka” Ward, observed that women of her generation had no choice but to become groupies in one way or another because the depiction of females in popular culture and in language is sexualized. She referred to the character, Pussy Galore, in the James Bond series. We wondered: how do we become sexually liberated without being sexually objectified?
The Music Groupie School Desk is my art about the intersection of sexual liberation, romance, and music, the formation of groupies, and their undeniable influence on popular culture - and their undeniable influence on me!
Here are the specifics of the lyrics, books, comics, magazines, movies, and music:
Lyrics and Compositions
Cynthia Plaster Caster’s book proposal (her memoir! ca. 1990s - 2022)
Lithofayne Pridgon lyrics, “Behind Every Successful Man,” 2 pages typed with her original handwritten notes, date unknown, but probably 1960s-1970s
Sandra Rowe from GTO’s lyrics, “You Could Make it Beautiful Baby,” 1 page in her original handwriting, 1968-1969
Pop Tart Compositions, Cherry Vanilla, 1974
45s
-ABBA, “Dancing Queen,” 1976 (Plus, the vinyl and the picture of two singers that was included with the vinyl are on the floor by the 45s)
-Blondie, “Rip Her to Shreds,” 1977 (plus, also on wall as a poster that cut off the record’s jacket image that I inadvertently made and love)
-Bobby Braddock, “Ruby is a Groupie (with a Cosmic Cowboy Band)”, 1976
- Bobby Nunn “She’s Just a Groupie,” 1982
- Cher “Superstar,” 1970 (the year not listed on album or sleeve)
-David Bowie, “Rebel Rebel,” 1973 (on floor)
- Deep Purple “Emmaretta,” 1968
- Delaney & Bonnie and Friends featuring Eric Clapton “Groupie (Superstar),” 1969 (the year not listed on album or sleeve)
- Emily XYZ (read by Myers Bartlett & Emily XYZ, drums Virgil Moorefield) “Jimmy Page Loves Lori Maddox,” 1994
- Fanny “Butter Boy,” 1974
-Fleetwood Mac, “Gold Dust Woman,” 1977
- The Four Fuller Brothers “”Groupie,” 1969 (the year not listed on album or sleeve)
- Free Kitten “Special Groupie,” 1993 (the year not listed on album or sleeve)
-Grand Funk Railroad, “We’re an American Band,” 1973
-Groupie, “All My Friends Are Pets,” 1997 (plus, both sides of the vinyl can be seen pasted on the wall)
- The Groupies, “You Changed Again,” 2005
-Guns N’ Roses, “Rocket Queen,” 1987
- Hollywood Joe inscribed “to Mercy GTO” in 2017
- Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show “Roland the Roadie and Gertrude the Groupie,” 1973
-Jimi Hendrix, “Dolly Dagger,” 1997 but originally released 1971. The song is reportedly about SuperGroupie, Devon Wilson. (Plus, the vinyl can be seen emerging from its jacket on the ground floor.)
-Jimi Hendrix, “Little Wing,” no date on the 45 I have or it’s picture sleeve, the song was originally released 1967
-Joni Mitchell, “Blonde in the Bleachers,“ 1972 (on floor)
-Michael Jackson, “Dirty Diana,” 1987 and its instrumental, 1988
- The New Dream “Groupie,” 1970 (the year not listed on album or sleeve)
- New Riders of the Purple Sage “Groupie,” 1972
- Opal Butterfly, “Groupie,” 1970
- Pamela Des Barres and The Dehumanizers, 2011
- Plaster Caster Blues Band, “Lanoola Goes Limp,” 1969
- Ringling Sisters 33 1/3 on a 45, 1994
-Sweet, “Fox on the Run,” 1974
Comics
Archie, April 2017
Archie’s Pals ‘n’ Gals, Summer 1964
Archie’s Pals ‘n’ Gals, Aug. 1968
Archie’s Pals ‘n’ Gals, Apr. 1968
Archie’s Pals ‘n’ Gals, Aug. 1969
Archie’s Pals ‘n’ Gals, June 1987
Betty’s Diary, Oct. 1988
Betty’s Diary, Sept. 1989
Betty and Me, Nov. 1983
Betty and Veronica, June 1963
Betty and Veronica, Dec. 1965
Betty and Veronica, Apr. 1968
Betty and Veronica, Oct. 1968
Betty and Veronica, Dec. 1968
Betty and Veronica, May 1974
Betty and Veronica, Dec. 2015
Falling in Love, Oct. 1970
Falling in Love, July 1971
Girls’ Love, Oct. 1965
Girls’ Love, July 1968
Girls’ Romances, Dec. 1969
Heart Throbs, Nov. 1965
Heart Throbs, Jan. 1970
Heart Throbs, Mar. 1972
Hollywood Romances, Nov. 1966
i Love You, Sept. 1972
i Love You, Mar. 1973
Josie and the Pussycats, June 1970
Life with Archie, May 1961
Life with Archie, Jan. 1971
Love and Romance, Sept. 1974
Millie the Model, Dec. 1965
Millie the Model, Feb. 1966
Millie the Model, May 1966
Millie the Model, Nov. 1966
Millie the Model, Jan. 1967
Millie the Model, Sept. 1967
Modeling with Millie, Dec. 1966
My Love, May 1974
My Love, Sept. 1975
The New Millie the Model, Nov. 1968
The New MMMMillie the Model, Nov. 1967
The New MMMMillie the Model, June 1969
Patsy Walker Miss America, Mar. 1957
Pep, Feb. 1969
The Revealing Secrets of…Girls’ Romances, Oct. 1969
Teen Confessions, Oct. 1972
Teen-Age Love, Nov. 1968
That Wilkin Boy, Jan. 1970
Young Love, Apr. 1973
If you look closely, you'll see that some of the comics mention The Beatles! The Kinks! The Rolling Stones! or feature centerfolds of David Cassidy! Susan Dey! Bobby Sherman!
Albums
-AC/DC, If You Want Blood You’ve Got It, 1978, because “Whole Lotta Rosie” was written about a fan and they built a stage prop in her honor
-The Animals, The Best of The Animals, because Eric Burdon said in the 2001 documentary, Plaster Caster, that Cynthia was brave
-Bebe Buell, Covers Girl, 1981, because Bebe is sometimes considered a groupie
-Bette Midler, The Divine Miss M, 1972, with the song, “Superstar,” because that song by Bonnie Bramlett, Leon Russell, and Rita Coolidge was originally titled “Groupie”
-Carpenters, The Singles 1969-1973, 1972 and 1973, because of “Superstar,” the song written by Bonnie Bramlett, Leon Russell, and Rita Coolidge, and originally called “Groupie”
-Cher, "Git Down (Guitar Groupie),” 1979
-Cherry Vanilla, Bad Girl, 1977 and 1978, because the writer, Cherry Vanilla, is a SuperGroupie
-Cherry Vanilla, Venus d’Vinyl, 1979, because the author, Cherry Vanilla, is a SuperGroupie
-Cherry Vanilla and Man Parrish, “Fone Sex,” 1992, because the author, Cherry Vanilla, is a SuperGroupie
-David Bowie, Aladdin Sane, 1973, with “The Jean Genie” whose accompanying music video stars groupie, CyrindaFox-Tyler
-Derek and The Dominos, Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs, 1970, because “Layla” was written for Patti Boyd, and because “Little Wing” was written by Jimi Hendrix about groupies
-Donovan, Sunshine Superman, because he and Linda Lawrence planned to write a book about groupies, and because he wrote “Legend of a Girl Child Linda” for her
-Faces, Long Player, 1971, with the song “Maybe I’m Amazed” because Beatle, Paul McCartney, wrote it for Linda McCartney, the photographer also known as a groupie
-Groupie Girl, original motion picture soundtrack, 1970
-The Groupies, 1969, because the album is a record of groupies talking about groupiedom
-GTO’s, Permanent Damage, 1969, because they are known as a groupie” group: they hung out with musicians, worked with musicians, bedded musicians, and many in the band married or lived with musicians
-Hair The American Tribal Love Rock Musical, Broadway musical, 1968, because musician and groupie, Emmaretta Marks, is in it
-Mike Hudson & The Pagans, Hollywood High, 2014 because Evita Corby is on the cover, and she once explained to me her thoughts about groupies. She also married a musician, and dated Mike Hudson
-The Jimi Hendrix Experience, Are You Experienced, 1967 because “Foxey Lady” was probably about Lithofayne Pridgon
-The Jimi Hendrix Experience, Electric Ladyland, 1968 because a picture of Lithofayne Pridgon and Jimi Hendrix together is included in the liner notes
-Joe Cocker, Mad Dogs & Englishmen, 1970, because Rita Coolidge sings a song she co-wrote with Bonnie Bramlett and Leon Russell, “Superstar,” a song originally titled “Groupie” and for the song, “She Came in Thru the Bathroom Window,” which was written by Paul McCartney about a groupie (either those who climbed into his house, and/or one who hooked up with a member of The Moody Blues)
-John Mayall, Back to the Roots, 1970, with “Groupie Girl”
-KISS, Love Gun, 1977, because of their song about Cynthia Plaster Caster, “Plaster Caster”
-Lana Del Rey, Lust for Life, 2017, because of her song, “Groupie Love (feat. A$AP Rocky). The record is on the turntable!
-Leon Russell, “Leon Russell,” 1970, because “A Song for You” is a groupie dream come true
-Le Tigre, Junior Senior and Peaches Remixes, 2004, with “Nanny Nanny Boo Boo”
-Le Tigre, TKO Nanny Nanny Boo Boo, 2004
-Lil’ Kim “Thug Luv” featuring Twista, 2003
-Luther Vandross, Busy Body, 1983, with the song, “Superstar,” because that song by Bonnie Bramlett, Leon Russell, and Rita Coolidge was originally titled “Groupie”
-Luther Vandross, “Superstar/Until You Come Back to Me (That’s What I’m Gonna Do,)” 1983, because the “Superstar” song by Bonnie Bramlett, Leon Russell, and Rita Coolidge was originally titled “Groupie”
-Odissi, Groupie, 2005 (plus the vinyl itself is pasted on wall)
-The Plaster Caster Blues Band, 1969, because it was named after SuperGroupie and artist, Cynthia Plaster Caster, who plaster-casted musicians’ genitalia
-Rex Smith, Sooner or Later, 1979, because the album is a tie-in to the 1979 film and novel of the same name, with a plot about a teen girl and a musician falling in love. He teaches her to play guitar
-The Rolling Stones, Sticky Fingers, 1971, because “Brown Sugar” was probably about groupies
-The Rolling Stones, Exile on Main St, 1972, with “Rip This Joint” because a lyric refers to SuperGroupie, Barbara the Butter Queen
-The Rolling Stones, Love You Live, 1977, with the songs “Star Star” and “Brown Sugar” because of the lyric “starfucker” in the former and because the latter was probably at least partially about a groupie or groupies
-The Roots, Things Fall Apart, 1998 and 1999, with the song “You Got Me” featuring Erykah Badu, because the song refers to falling in love with a musician as she sees and hears him perform onstage
-213, The Groupie Luv EP, 2005
-Some Product Carri On Sex Pistols, Sex Pistols, 1977 and 1978 and 1979, because the cover has a picture of Hotel Chelsea’s plaque, and the hotel is known for its groupie and musician guests and residents
- Various artists, Born Bad Volume One, 1986, because a band called The Groupies contributes
Cassettes
“A Tribute to…the Carpenters,” 1985, because of the song about a groupie, “Superstar”
“If I Were a Carpenter,” various artists, 1994, including Sonic Youth’s version of the song about a groupie, “Superstar”
“Permanent Damage,” GTO’s, 1969, because GTO’s are considered a “groupie group”
“Naughty Little Doggie,” Iggy Pop, 1996, because a lyric from the song, “Look Away,” is about SuperGroupie, Sabel Star
“Greatest Hits,” Rose Royce, 1980, because I love the band’s music so much! and because the song, “I Wanna Get Next to You,” 1976, could easily be a song from a groupie
8-tracks
Permanent Damage, GTO’s, 1969
Some Girls, The Rolling Stones, 1978
Various, The Rolling Stones
Magazines
Adam, July, 1969
“Groupies - Nonprofit Call Girls Of The Pop World”
“Groupies
Or I slept with the Jefferson Airplane for the Civil Aeronautics Admin.” by Keith Stephens
“Groupies
Or I slept with the jefferson airplane for the civil aeronautics administration and found God” by Keith Stephens
Aum, May, 1969
“Freak Fashion (Girls Together Outrageously)”
Cover photo of GTO’s by Ed Caraeff, shot in his sister’s bedroom
Baron Wolman Archives
Volume One
The Groupies
1968-69
Cad, May, 1970
“The Groupie Girl”
“Confessions Of A Groupie/Lina Orlando”
“Confessions Of A Groupie” By Joseph Lagos
Camera October 1969
“The Girls of Rock,” Jerry Hopkins (2 pages)
“Wolman,” by Baron Wolman (1 page article, 7 photographs plus 1 more photograph on ground floor)
Cosmopolitan, November, 1969
“Groupies: The Ultimate Girlfriends”
“Groupies: The Ultimate Girlfriends
Dedicated, ambitious, cunning, these young idolatorsworship their own special gods: the not-so-spiritual princes of rock!” by Susan Edmiston
Cosmopolitan, August, 1974
“Sweet, Sweet Connie”
“Sweet, Sweet Connie The startling confessions of the most famous groupie (right) of them all” by Crescent Dragonwagon
Cosmopolitan, February/March, 2022
“On the Road with Today’s Groupies,” Catriona Innes (Muses Chanty and Lynx! Patti Johnson!)
Creem, August, 1974 (cover, 2 pictures from Elements of Style article, 4 pages article and 1 page map from Hollywood Consumers Guide article)
“Special Report
The Girls of Hollywood
Complete with Instructions and Map”
“Elements of Style: I Was Afraid They’d All Be California Girls
14 and savage, these slags are the sauce of the post-beach culture.
sweet tarts,” by David Marsh
“Hollywood Special Report
The Hollywood Consumers Guide: Every bistro worth cruising from Vine Street to the Watts Towers” steerage by Colman Andrews, Richard Cromelin, and Ben Edmonds
Details, July, 1992
“Making a Scene: Los Angeles 1972-1974, Glam Rock loses its virginity,” Lance Loud
Esquire, September, 1968
“Optional Nudity in Hair…How the girls dress it up,” photographs by Steinbicker/Houghton (Emmaretta Marks! Diane Keaton!)
Groupie Rock, August, 1978
“What Makes a Groupie”
“What Makes A Groupie (In Case You Were Wondering)
“What Makes a Groupie?” by Dave Street
Groupie Rock, May, 1979
“Eating Rock Stars” by Darcy Diamond
Hard Rock, June, 1978
“Hot Rocks: Tales of Horny Groupie Experience!!”
“Hot Rocks - The Horny Little Groupie Column”
“Groupie Column Hot Rocks” by Dave Street
The Image, July, 1970
“GTO’s Dream Date!” (contest to win a date with the GTO’s)
Led Zep 2, Fall, 1978
“Groupie Tells Why She Gets Off on Robert Plant” (on cover but not an article with that title in the magazine!)
Melody Maker, September 8, 1973
“California Dreaming….” by Michael Watts
Mirabelle, 26th July 1969
“Get in on the Super Hip World of the Groupies”
“The World of the Groupies,” Paul Raven
Mirror Magazine, April 11, 1979
“Girls Who Are Going For a Song
Sex and the pop groups”
“Cover Story The groupies: girls on the fringe of pop,” by Graham Peters
New Musical Express, December 28, 1974
“Thrills”
“Groupie Paradise Almost Lost”
“Rodney Bingenheimer’s English discotheque re-visited” by Mick Farren
Penthouse, December, 1975
“Getting It On With Underwear,” Cherry Vanilla
“Getting It On With Underwear
Beyond the lace curtain - she changed her underwear like some women change their lovers.” By Cherry Vanilla
Penthouse, January, 1992
“24 Guys In One Night: Confessions Of A Rock ‘N’ Roll Groupie”
“Confessions Of A Rock ‘N’ Roll Groupie”by Connie Hamzy with Melanie Wells
Playboy, November, 1968
“The Theater’s Nude Revolution,” “Theater of the Nude” pictorial essay, Howard Junker
Playboy, March, 1989
“SuperGroupie Pamela Des Barres”
“She’s With The Band - pictorial” text by Pamela Des Barres
“She’s With The Band
supergroupie pamela des barres in a rockin’ show and tell”
Rags, June, 1970
“The Cop of the Year,” interview by Daphne Davis with Devon Wilson!
Rolling Stone, February 15, 1969
“The Groupies and Other Girls” issue devoted to groupies and musicians, all female
The Realist, “The Case of the Cock-Sure Groupies,” Ellen Sander article on the Plaster Casters, November, 1968 (not added yet)
Sexology, February, 1975
“Today’s Groupie Scene
Wilder Than Ever
They’re the most intensely loyal and far-out loving of fans, and the rock stars “dig” them,” Joe Lovell
Show, February, 1970
“The Making of a Groupie Movie,”
“The Making of the Groupie Movie, 1970”
by David Freeman, photographs by Raeanne Rubinstein
Spin, June, 2003
Sid & Nancy, 1977 on the cover
Star, February, 1973
Star, March, 1973
Star, April, 1973
Star, May, 1973
Star, June, 1973 (cover and also 1 picture from the article) “Sunset Strip Groupies: Who, What, When & How (Wow!),” Carole Pickel
“Groupies Comix,” Petagno
Tiger Beat, November, 1965
“But…What is a Groupie?” By Earl Leaf
“Groupies” by Earl Leaf
“Groupies! Who are they? Where did they come from? Are you one of them?” by Earl Leaf
Time, February 28, 1969
“Modern Living
Manners and Morals
The Groupies”
Triad, Volume Four Number Three, 1976
“Cinnamon: Chicago’s Greatest Groupie!”
“Chicago’s Last Groupie
Cinnamon: An interview with the Greatest of Chicago’s groupies” by Cynthia Dagnal
“Chicago’s Last Groupie”
Vice, Vol 8 No 5
“Every Rose Has It’s Thorn: The Groupie Paintings of Helen Garber,” Christi Bradnox
Ads
Groupies record advertisement, @ 1969
G.T.O.’s business card
Miss Pamela (Pamela Des Barres) business card
Plaster Casters business card
Rolling Stone “Groupies” issue advertisement, @ 1969
“Win a Date With GTO’s” contest entry advertisement, The Image, July, 1970
Films
Almost Famous, 2000, DVD
The Banger Sisters, 2002, DVD
Foxes, 1980, DVD
Gilda, 1946 (because Gilda throws her guitar into a glass door rock star style!), 2 copies, VHS
Groupies, 1970, DVD
Hear My Train A Comin’, 2013, Blu-ray Disc (and the picture of Lithofayne Pridgon and Jimi Hendrix together from the liner notes is included on the ground floor)
Looking for Johnny: The Legend of Johnny Thunders, 2014, DVD
Mayor of the Sunset Strip, 2003, DVD
Pink Floyd The Wall, 1982, VHS
Plaster Caster, 2001, VHS
Rock Star, 2001, DVD
Rock ‘n’ Roll High School, 1979, VHS
Sid & Nancy, 1986, DVD
Sooner or Later, 1978, DVD
Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story, 1987, 2 copies, VHS
The Song Remains the Same, 1976, VHS
This is Spinal Tap, 1984, DVD
Note: Cocksucker Blues (1972), I Wanna Hold Your Hand (1978), The Idolmaker (1980), Times Square (1980), Breaking Glass (1980), Eddie and the Cruisers (1983), and Good Ol’ Freda (2013) will be added after they are assembled
Mass Market Paperback Books
The Groupie Phenomenon, Ethan Arbogast (1969)
Free Spirit, Angie Bowie (1981)
Backstage Passes, Angela Bowie with Patrick Carr (1993)
Groupies and Other Girls: A Rolling Stone Special Report, John Burks and Jerry Hopkins (1970)
Groupie, Johnny Byrne & Jenny Fabian (1969)
Neon Angel: The Cherie Currie Story, Cherie Currie and Neal Shusterman (1989)
I’m with the Band: Confessions of a Groupie, Pamela Des Barres (1988, earlier edition 1987)
Take Another Little Piece of my Heart, Pamela Des Barres (1993, earlier edition 1992)
Let it Bleed: How to Write a Rockin’ Memoir, Pamela Des Barres, ed. (2016)
Miss Pamela’s Writing School for Electric Ladies: A Collection of Greatest Hits, Volume 1, Pamela Des Barres, ed. (2022)
Dream On: Livin’ on the Edge with Steven Tyler and Aerosmith, Cyrinda Foxe-Tyler and Danny Fields (1997)
Lusty Groupies, Kay Garnett (1985)
I, A Groupie, Michael Gross (1975)
Sooner or Later, Bruce and Carole Hart (1978)
Waiting Games, Bruce and Carole Hart (1981)
‘70s Teen Pop, Lucretia Tye Jasmine (2023)
Electric Ladyland: Women and Rock Culture, Lisa L. Rhodes (2005)
Body Count, Francie Schwartz (1972)
And I Don’t Want to Live This Life, Deborah Spungen(1983)
The Big Scene Groups & Groupies - Their Trips & Kicks, Robin Squire (1969, first published 1968 as Square One)
DreamGirl: My Life as a Supreme, Mary Wilson with Patricia Romanowski and Ahrgus Juilliard (1986)
Hardcover Books
Rock Wives: The Hard Lives and Good Times of the Wives, Girlfriends, and Groupies of Rock and Roll, Victoria Balfour (1986)
Delta Lady, Rita Coolidge (2016)
Wonderful Tonight: George Harrison, Eric Clapton, and Me, Patti Boyd with Penny Junor (2007)
New York Dolls Photographs by Bob Gruen, 2008
Let’s Spend the Night Together: Backstage Secrets of Rock Muses and Supergroupies, Pamela Des Barres (2007)
We Gotta Get Out of This Place: The True, Tough Story of Women in Rock, Gerri Hershey (2001)
Dandelion: Memoir of a Free Spirit, Catherine James (2007)
Women Who Rock: Bessie to Beyoncé, Girl Groups to Riot Grrrl, Evelyn McDonnell (2018)
Baby Let’s Play House: Elvis Presley and the Women Who Loved Him, Alanna Nash (2010)
Miss O’Dell: Hard Days and Long Nights with The Beatles, The Stones, Bob Dylan, and Eric Clapton, Chris O’Dell with Katherine Ketcham (2009)
Queens of Noise: The Real Story of the Runaways, Evelyn McDonnell (2013)
Glam! When Superstars Rocked the World, 1970-1974, Mark Paytress (2022)
Good Booty: Love and Sex, Black and White, Body and Soul in American Music, Ann Powers (2017)
Trips: Rock Life in the Sixties, Ellen Sander (1973)
Shine Bright: A Very Personal History of Black Women in Pop, Danyel Smith (2022)
What You Want is in the Limo: On the Road with Led Zeppelin, Alice Cooper, and The Who in 1973, the Year the Sixties Died and the Modern Rock Star was Born, Michael Walker (2013)
Lick Me: How I Became Cherry Vanilla (by way of the Copacabana, Madison Avenue, the Fillmore East, Andy Warhol, David Bowie, and the Police), Cherry Vanilla (2010)
Hollywood Diaries, Morgana Welch (2007)
Parachute Women: Marianne Faithfull, Marsha Hunt, Bianca Jagger, Anita Pallenberg and the Women Behind The Rolling Stones, Elizabeth Winder (2023)
Trade and Oversized Paperback Books
Marilyn: The Passion and the Paradox, Lois Banner (2012)
Rebel Heart: An American Rock ‘n’ Roll Journey, BebeBuell with Victor Bockris (2001)
Women of the Underground: Music - Cultural Innovators Speak for Themselves, interviews by Zora von Burden (2010)
Freak Out! My Life with Frank Zappa, Pauline Butcher (2011)
Weren’t Born a Man, Dana Gillespie (2020)
Bill Graham Presents: My Life Inside Rock and Out, Bill Graham and Robert Greenfield (1992)
In the Houses of the Holy: Led Zeppelin and the Power of Rock Music, Susan Fast (2001)
Angry Women in Rock, Volume One, Andrea Juno, ed. (1996)
Bowie: The Biography, Wendy Leigh (2014)
Black Diamond Queens: African American Women and Rock and Roll, Maureen Mahon (2020)
Please Kill Me: the Uncensored Oral History of Punk, Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain (1996)
Rock She Wrote: Women Write About Rock, Pop, and Rap, Ann Powers and Evelyn McDonnell, eds. (1995)
In the Wings: My Life with Roger McGuinn and The Byrds, Ianthe McGuinn (2017)
Goa Freaks: My Hippie Years in India, Cleo Odzer (1995)
Virtual Spaces: Sex and the Cyber Citizen, Cleo Odzer(1997)
Becoming Jimi Hendrix: From Southern Crossroads to Psychedelic London, the Untold Story of a Musical Genius, Steven Roby and Brad Schreiber (2010)
The Lives of the Muses: Nine Women and the Artists They Inspired, Francine Prose (2002)
Lillian Roxon’s Rock Encyclopedia, Lillian Roxon (1969, 1971)
Led Zeppelin:The Biography, Bob Spitz (2021)
Groupies and Other Electric Ladies, Baron Wolman with an introduction by Holly George-Warren (2015, 2016)
Songbooks: The Literature of American Popular Music, Eric Weisbard (2021)
Shout out to Wayne Pemberton, Jr for helping me with how best to display the colors of the 45s!
Shout out to Jeff Jobson for suggesting I more thoughtfully choose the album on the turntable! Which made me do so. I chose Lana Del Rey’s 2017 Lust for Life.