Pamela Des Barres had the rock ‘n’ roll gods in the palm of her hand, as she proudly noted in her memoir I’m With the Band: Confessions of a Groupie. It’s also widely believed that she was the inspiration for the character Penny Lane in Cameron Crowe’s film Almost Famous. He apparently used her memoirs to create the fictional groupie.
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It’s really no wonder that the director zeroed in on Pamela’s stories, considering she’s one of – if not THE – most famous rock ‘n’ roll groupie ever. Her confessional details all of her escapades with loads of rock stars (Led Zeppelin, the Stones, Hendrix, Buffalo Springfield, the Byrds, Zappa, the Who, etc.) as she was living the life on L.A.’s Sunset Strip in the late-‘60s and early-‘70s. If you’re looking for a time capsule into that era, this is it…