Author: Pamela Des Barres Publisher: Omnibus Press ISBN: 1787590755 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 350
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First published in 1987, New York Times bestseller, I’m With The Band has been reprinted throughout the years, all over the world. This is the stylish, exuberant and sweetly innocent tale of one of the most famous groupies of the 1960s and 70s. Beginning with Pamela Des Barres’ early obsession with Elvis, her own Beatlemania madness, and her fierce determination to meet the musicians who rocked her world, I’m With The Band illuminates the glory days of scintillating encounters with musical gods including Jim Morrison, Jimi Hendrix, Mick Jagger and Keith Moon. A girl just wanting to have fun, Des Barres immersed herself in the drugs, danger and ecstasy of the freewheeling 1960s. As a member of The GTOs (Girls Together Outrageously), an all-female group masterminded by Frank Zappa, Des Barres was in the thick of the most revolutionary renaissance in the history of modern popular music. She travelled with Led Zeppelin; lived in sin with Don Johnson; turned down a date with Elvis Presley; and was close friends with Robert Plant, Gram Parsons and Ray Davies. She had affairs with Mick Jagger, Jimmy Page, Keith Moon, Waylon Jennings, Chris Hillman, Noel Redding, and Jim Morrison, among others. A woman in possession of her own destiny, Des Barres blazed a trail for women’s life-writing, standing up for female voices and experience everywhere. From original diaries, told with great warmth, chutzpah and joie de vivre, this is a frank memoir that wears its heart on its sleeve, and recalls one of rock ’n’ roll’s most thrilling eras. This edition contains new material from the author, including her response to the vitriolic shaming of groupies, and a foreword by Roisin O’Connor, rock journalist and music correspondent for the Independent.
Author: Pamela Des Barres Publisher: ISBN: 9781785585760 Category : Languages : en Pages : 300
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Pamela Des Barres was a regular on the Sunset Strip, where she knocked on rock stars' backstage doors and immersed herself in the drugs, danger, and ecstasy of the freewheeling 1960s. Over the next 10 years she had affairs with Mick Jagger, Jimmy Page, Keith Moon and Jim Morrison, among others. As a member of the GTO's, a girl group masterminded ......
Author: Pamela Des Barres Publisher: Chicago Review Press ISBN: 1569766800 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 318
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Pamela Des Barres spent the sexual revolution on the ramparts as the celebrated "queen of the groupies" and chronicled her adventures with the high priests of rock in her best seller I'm With the Band. Affectionate, subversive, and funny, it was hailed by The New York Times as representing "something honorable and loving ... about the sexual honesty of modern women." It became an underground classic, an emblematic memoir of the 1960s generation.
Author: Pamela DES BARRES Publisher: Le Mot et le reste ISBN: 2360542567 Category : Art Languages : fr Pages : 280
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Intégrée dans le milieu rock de Los Angeles par Captain Beefheart qu’elle rencontre alors qu’elle est encore au lycée, Pamela va très vite se faire une place dans ce petit monde. D’abord en tant que fan prête à tout pour attirer le regards des rockstars puis en montant elle aussi sur scène aux côtés des GTO’s - groupe de rock composé uniquement de groupies et chaperonné par Frank Zappa - et finalement en devenant l’amante et la muse de rockers aussi dépravés qu’égoïstes. Sans mélancolie mais plutôt avec humour et autodérision, Pamela Des Barres partage ses souvenirs, ses amitiés, ses joies et ses désillusions, ses parties de jambes en l’air, ses défonces avec en fond sonore les chefs-d’oeuvre du rock des années soixante. Dans cette autobiographie, se côtoient l’insouciante jeune fille assoiffée de nouvelles expériences et la femme qui s’est construite par l’affirmation de ses libertés ; deux facettes qui font d’elle aujourd’hui une pionnière de la libération sexuelle et du féminisme décomplexé.
Author: Pamela Des Barres Publisher: Chicago Review Press ISBN: 1556529791 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 499
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Presents biographies of twenty-four rock groupies in their own words, including Tura Satana, Miss Mercy, Cynthia Plaster Caster, and Miss B.
Author: Pamela Des Barres Publisher: ISBN: 9788598490106 Category : Languages : pt Pages : 272
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As ousadas memórias da 'groupie' mais famosa da história do rock começam em 1960, quando, ainda menina, acompanhada pelos pais, ela suspirava por Elvis em sessões de cinema. Poucos anos mais tarde, Pamela Miller, de Reseda, Califórnia, tornou-se uma beatlemaníaca perdidamente apaixonada por Paul McCartney. Enquanto adaptava seu sotaque americano ao britânico de Liverpool, ela escrevia poemas românticos para seu ídolo, disfarçava a ausência de seios com enchimentos de tecido costurados ao soutien e domava os cachos em penteados que deveriam torná-la mais atraente aos olhos dos colegas do colégio. Não demorou muito para que ela aderisse ao estilo mais natural - e extravagante - dos 'hippies', descobrisse, na voz de Bob Dylan, que a resposta estava sendo soprada pelo vento e que seus hormônios adolescentes começassem a pulsar com Mick Jagger cantando "I'm a king bee, baby, let me come inside". Foi quando ela se afastou dos garotos da escola e passou a se concentrar na conquista de seus músicos preferidos. Sunset Strip, onde tudo acontecia, ficava logo ali, à distância de uma carona. Contando, ninguém acredita, mas Pamela desfilou com Jim Morrison a tiracolo, foi namorada de Jimmy Page e, depois de resistir a muitas cantadas, acabou cedendo ao ardente desejo de Mick Jagger - para citar apenas três dos mais famosos -; cuidou dos filhos de Gail e Frank Zappa; formou o grupo GTO, Girls Together Only; e se tornou grande amiga de Robert Plant. E ela sabe contar como ninguém uma história muito peculiar da cena 'rock and roll' numa época em que até o showbiz era ingênuo, mas nem por isso menos alucinante. Misturando sua narrativa com trechos dos diários que mantinha com afinco, letras de canções e transcrições de bilhetes, Pamela conduz os leitores com leveza e autenticidade pelos bastidores dos palcos onde se criaram grandes fenômenos do rock. E, ao mesmo tempo, abre o coração da garota que acreditou e viveu o amor livre acima de todas as coisas.A história de Pamela Des Barres inspirou Kate Hudson e Goldie Hawn em seus papéis de 'groupies' nos filmes 'Quase Famosos' (Almost Famous) e 'Doidas Demais' (The Banger Sisters).
Author: Pamela Des Barres Publisher: Jove Publications ISBN: 9780515097122 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 280
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The author recounts her experiences at the center of the rock world, with stars such as Keith Moon, Mick Jagger, Jimmy Page, Waylon Jennings, and Jim Morrison
Author: Pamela Des Barres Publisher: St. Martin's Press ISBN: 125001798X Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 571
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The dark moments of rock history fascinate and tantalize like the pathos of Greek tragedy. The bottom sinks lower, the air seems colder, the bad endings--when they are bad--seem beyond bad. The unlucky practitioners of our most thriving form of communal experience seem to hit rock bottom in ways only the most glamorous among us can--publicly. The stories remain obscure, half-seen in the shadowlands. In her familiar style, Pamela Des Barres shines light on the people whose art remains the background music to our popular culture. Des Barres asks, "What comes first, the addiction or the rock and roll?" The first apparent rock-and-roll death occured on Christmas Eve in 1959, when Johnny Ace blew his head off in a game of Russian Roulette between shows. Buddy Holly's four-seater plane crashes. Marvin Gaye's father shoots his son. Kurt Cobain puts a gun to his head. The headlines tell it all: ROCK SINGER FACES MANSLAUGHTER CHARGE, JAMES BROWN ADDICTED TO PCP, BASSIST FOR BAND HOLE FOUND DEAD. The messed-up lives, the burned-out golden boys and girls, the violence, the route toward rock bottom--Des Barres has a line on the souls of the public figures who lived desperate private lives to entertain us all.
Author: Jon Bream Publisher: Quarto Publishing Group USA ISBN: 1627888020 Category : Music Languages : en Pages : 307
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This second edition of the history of rock's heaviest band gives you even more reasons to rock!This all-star tribute features many of today's top rock journalists from Rolling Stone, CREEM, Billboard, and more, as well as reflections on the band from some of rock's greatest performers, including members of the Kinks, Aerosmith, Heart, Mott the Hoople, the Minutemen, the Hold Steady, and many more.Glorious concert and behind-the-scenes photography cover the band from the first shows in 1968 as the New Yardbirds through today. More than 450 rare concert posters, backstage passes, tickets, LPs and singles, t-shirts, buttons, and more illustrate the book. A discography and tour itinerary complete the package, making a book as epic as the band it documents.Created from the ashes of the Yardbirds by guitarist and session wizard Jimmy Page, Led Zeppelin featured virtuoso bass player John Paul Jones, gonzo drummer John Bonham, and Robert Plant, a vocalist like no other before him. The band single-handedly defined what rock 'n' roll could be, leaving in their wake tales as tall or as real as we wanted them to be.All of that, plus exclusive commentary from Ray Davies of the Kinks, Steve Earle, Kid Rock, Ace Frehley of Kiss, Rob Thomas of Matchbox Twenty, Chris Robinson of the Black Crowes, Jon Bon Jovi and Richie Sambora, Lenny Kravitz, Dolly Parton, and many more make this book one that no fan of Led Zeppelin will want to miss!
Author: Pamela Des Barres
Author: Pamela Des Barres
Author: Pamela Des Barres
Author: Pamela DES BARRES
Author: Pamela Des Barres
Author: Pamela Des Barres
Author: Pamela Des Barres
Author: Pamela Des Barres
Author: Pamela Des Barres
Author: Jon Bream