Almost Famous - The Real Lives of Groupies

Almost Famous (well, Untitled - the director's cut of it) is my fav movie. But that doesn't mean I don't want to peel back the curtain of 70's teenager nostalgia on an infamous time in Rock and Roll and talk about the behind the scenes. Penny Lane, well, Kate Hudson's portrayal, captured everyone at the time and was and still is many people's wardrobe inspirations but she's actually based on real people. Everyone in the movie is honestly, though it is a sanitized version of the truth. As you know, here we like to uncover the reality, and we're doing just that with groupies, talking about some of their lives, the attitudes of rockstars, and how this way of life got corrupted not only by business but by exploitative super stars.

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Timestamps:
00:00 it's all happening
00:48 intro, triggers and setting the scene
04:40 who were the groupies of the time?
06:20 Penny Lane Trumbull
10:57 Sweet, Sweet Connie (Connie Hamzy)
14:52 Cleo Odzer
16:16 Lori Mattix
20:58 Sable Starr
22:52 Bebe Buell
25:31 Cynthia Plaster Caster
27:03 Pamela Des Barres
32:23 Rose Tinted Glasses
38:59 A woman's worth
43:49 Pushing the limit
46:22 Final thoughts

Sources:
Groupies - the 1970's documentary:    • Видео  
Groupies - the 1985 documentary:    • GROUPIES - 80s rock stars talk about ...  
https://www.rollingstone.com/tv-movie...
https://www.vox.com/2016/1/28/1081549...
https://www.nydailynews.com/entertain....
https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-w...
https://www.nytimes.com/1970/11/09/ar...
https://www.vulture.com/2020/06/patri...
https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/...
https://vocal.media/beat/most-famous-...
https://globalnews.ca/news/4014316/mu...

The Groupies:
Penny Lane Trumbull:
https://www.oregonmusicnews.com/2012-...
Connie Hamzy (sweet, sweet Connie):
   • Joan Rivers   Sweet Sweet Connie  
   • GROUPIES - 80s rock stars talk about ...  
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/mu...
Cleo Odzer:
   • Cleo Odzer Groupies Part 1  
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cleo_Odzer
Lori Mattix (or Maddox, or Lightning)
https://www.thrillist.com/entertainme...
   • some women of Zeppelin  
https://www.theguardian.com/music/201...
   • JIMMY PAGE & LORI MATTIX  
   • Jimmy Page, the truth behind this pho...  
https://lorimaddoxdebunked.tumblr.com...
Sable Starr:
https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/sable-st...
https://www.grunge.com/354726/the-tra...
Bebe Buell:
https://www.salon.com/2011/05/24/stev...
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/mu... https://groovyhistory.com/bebe-buell-...
https://www.staythirstymedia.com/2009... https://www.rollingstone.com/music/mu...
Cynthia Plaster Caster:
   • VH1's Let's Spend the Night Together....  
   • Cynthia Plaster Caster talks about he...  
Pamela des Barres:
https://www.myspiltmilk.com/articles/...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_GTO....
https://www.nylon.com/articles/pamela...
https://www.vulture.com/2020/09/the-r...
https://www.pameladesbarresofficial.c...