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  Established in 1998, Nostalgia Central is your one stop reference guide through five decades of music, movies, television, pop culture and social history


 

Groupies


Once upon a time, there were girls (and occasionally guys) who took pride in the mere act of bedding rock stars. Some of them even became celebrities in their own right and honed this ability to a fine art.

In the late 60s, a collection of Los Angeles-based groupies came together (no pun intended!) under the twisted direction of Frank Zappa to release two albums under the name The GTO's. To call them a band gives them more musical credit than they would ever deserve - more like a blare of strumpets . . .

Some groupies even turned their experiences into art, like the legendary penis-sculpting Plaster Casters, and the groupies answer to Uncle Remus, the infamous Cherry Vanilla and Miss Pamela Des Barres. Now everyone has to hide behind some kind of bogus career motive and the clothes aren't as good . . .