Memoirs of a rock 'n roll muse

Rock stars were bigger in the past – and so were their groupies, as Patrick Sawer hears

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The news that Led Zeppelin are to reform for a one-off concert this autumn has added a certain frisson to the publication of Pamela Des Barres's already hot memoirs.

Pamela was a groupie. Not just any groupie, but one of an elite band of supergroupies who, in the days before AIDS, enjoyed affairs with some of the biggest stadium stars of the Sixties and Seventies. The notches on her bedpost include Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin, Keith Moon of The Who, Mick Jagger and Noel Redding of the Jimi Hendrix Experience.

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