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Mattix says that when she was 14 years old, she was introduced to David Bowie while he was in Los Angeles on his Ziggy Stardust Tour in October 1972. When Bowie's tour returned to Los Angeles five months later, on the night before Bowie performed at the Long Beach Arena in March 1973, Mattix claimed, Bowie's bodyguard was sent to pick up her and Starr for a sexual encounter.
Starr also claimed to have had relationships with David Bowie, Robert Plant, Jimmy Page, and Johnny Thunders. [4] Starr became one of the first "baby groupies" who in the early 1970s frequented the Rainbow Bar and Grill, the Whisky a Go Go, and Rodney Bingenheimer's English Disco; these were trendy nightclubs on West Hollywood's Sunset Strip ...
Remembering the end of the LA glitter groupie scene Pamela Des Barres wrote, "You couldn’t trust the new LA groupies, who were desperate, discouraged, groveling ego seekers. The love of music had become secondary to preening in Star magazine, standing next to Anybody In A Band. It was scary out there. It was fictitious and haunted."
The 2021 BBC documentary “Look Away” chronicled the evolution of that toxicity into the 1970s and 1980s, a time when sexual abuse of often-underage “groupies” was rampant, as was the abuse ...
The world lost a music legend when David Bowie died on Jan. 10, 2016.. The British-born Bowie burst onto the music scene in 1969 with his song “Space Oddity” and spent the next 40 years as one ...
In late 2015, the former groupie Lori Mattix claimed she lost her virginity to Bowie in 1972 when she was 15 and he was 25. While the claim was questioned for its factuality, the accusation proved controversial, with several articles questioning if it would damage or impact Bowie's legacy following his death in early 2016.
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David Robert Jones (8 January 1947 – 10 January 2016), known professionally as David Bowie (/ ˈ b oʊ i / BOH-ee), [1] was an English singer, songwriter, musician and actor. . Regarded as one of the most influential musicians of the 20th century, Bowie was acclaimed by critics and musicians, particularly for his innovative work during the 1