The Most Famous Rock Star Groupies Of All Time

Mariel Loveland | April 5, 2018 4:46 pm

Groupies get a bad rap. Though women like Joan Jett and Stevie Nicks paved the way for female talent on stage, these strong-willed ladies supported your favorite rock stars behind the scenes. As Kate Hudson’s Penny Lane famously put it, “We are here because of the music, we inspire the music. We are Band Aids.”

Groupies hold a strange place in history. They’ve inspired some of the most important moments in rock and roll, yet they’re almost always ignored or looked down upon. These infamous groupies changed the history of rock and roll – for better or for worse.

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Penny Lane Was Almost Famous

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Kate Hudson’s infamous character in Almost Famous was partly inspired by a real-life woman named Pamela Des Barres who hung around the likes of Elvis Presley and the Rolling Stones.

Des Barres penned two memoirs about her experience as a groupie called I’m with the Band and Take Another Little Piece of My Heart: A Groupie Grows Up. So, how did Penny Lane become so infamous that she managed to inspire one of the best groupie characters of all time?