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Pennie Ann Trumbull (born July 3, 1954), also known as Pennie Lane, is an American socialite, philanthropist, businesswoman, and entrepreneur. During the 1970s, she formed The Flying Garter Girls , a group that traveled around the country as groupies for famous rock bands.
Des Barres wrote two memoirs about her experience as a groupie, I'm with the Band: Confessions of a Groupie (1987) and Take Another Little Piece of My Heart: A Groupie Grows Up (1993). It is widely believed that Cameron Crowe drew from these memoirs to create the groupie character Penny Lane for his film Almost Famous.
William is barred from backstage until the opening band Stillwater arrives and William flatters his way in. Lead guitarist Russell Hammond takes a liking to him and his new acquaintance, veteran groupie Penny Lane, who has taken him under her wing. Despite behaving as stereotypical groupies, Penny insists she and her friends are "band aids", a ...
Des Barres points out that “‘groupie’ was an innocent word at first, meaning literally ‘someone who spends time with groups,’” but it “became a misunderstood term, synonymous with ...
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One girl who went by the nickname Penny Lane is real-life Pennie Lane Trumbull, born in Portland, Oregon, in 1954. [19] Though they were not in the Flying Garter Girls group, various other women have been described as Crowe's inspiration, for instance Pamela Des Barres [20] and Buell. Buell partially inspired Crowe; he named a lead singer ...
Penny Lane, to quote Paul McCartney's famous line, is always in Liverpool artist Susannah-Rachel Gorman's ears... and in her eyes. She can see the famous road sign - and hordes of Beatles fans ...
Penny Lane is a road in the south Liverpool suburb of Mossley Hill.The name also applies to the area surrounding its junction with Smithdown Road and Allerton Road, and to the roundabout at Smithdown Place that was the location for a major bus terminus, originally an important tram junction of Liverpool Corporation Tramways. [7]