I drink and I take drugs, I love sex and I move around a lot.

Different from teenyboppers or the queues of chicks waiting for tea with Bill Wyman were the groupies. I’d like to vindicate them as the fine young ladies they were, who knew what they wanted and knew what to provide.

Unfortunately the term “groupie” has been maligned, distorted and completely misunderstood. Originally coined by a Brit journalist meaning ‘a follower of groups,’ it quickly became a negative jeer by envious people who couldn’t get backstage. By those NOT in the know, groupies are perceived as loose women, star fuckers, and to use an old-fashioned term, gold diggers. Wrong. A true blue groupie is someone who loves the music so damn much that they feel the need to get close to the person who makes it.