1/28/2024 0 Comments Sable starr iggy popRead Nothing Happened During the First Night After all, this was the reason she was hanging around these joints. ![]() Lori did not know what to expect and probably was just going with the flow when she accompanied the legendary singer. Photo by Express/Getty Imagesīowie asked Lori to come to his hotel room. Bowie was in Los Angeles for the Spiders from Mars tour. The bright orange hair, face without eyebrows, and white skin was audacious to the point of being magnetic. Like all girls of her age, Lori was awestruck by Bowie’s appearance. Lori soon caught the attention of David Bowie and blurted out that she was with the club owner, Rodney Bingenheimer. It was not difficult for these bold and beautiful girls to turn heads, even with the competition around them. Photo by Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images This was the best place for a groupie to catch the attention of rock stars, who were not averse to meaningless flings. Lori’s mother would be working so it would be easy for the teenager to slip out. Lori, Sable, and their friend Queenie would frequent the clubs on Sunset Strip during weekends. In her infamous interview with Thrillist, Lori described her mentor as “… glamorous, totally one-of-a-kind, wearing scarves for shirts and going topless without hesitation.” Lori lost her virginity to David Bowie, who was then in his twenties, and there was no looking back for the baby groupie. The brunette beauty went by several other names, some of which were Lori Maddox and Lori Lightning. Lori was initiated as a groupie by Sable Starr, who was already known as the queen of the groupie scene. These flings with an underage fan were kept under wraps for decades, until Lori went public a few years ago. Who would have thought that the teenage years of Lori were wilder in the 1970s than anything that can be imagined now? Photo by Michael Ochs Archives/Getty ImagesĪs a “baby groupie,” Lori had relationships with music icons of those times, including David Bowie, Jimmy Page, Mick Jagger, and Iggy Pop. Am I going to regret this? No.At an age of 60 plus today, Lori Mattix is a partner at Glam Boutique in West Hollywood, a position as uninteresting as can be. I went to concerts in limos with police escorts. “I got to hang out with some of the most amazing, most beautiful, most charismatic men in the world. As of 2015, Maddox works in the fashion business and often revisits her memories of those carefree, intoxicating times. Starr died of brain cancer at age 51 in Nevada. I fell in love instantly.”īoth of their supervision-free sexcapades are well documented in photos strewn across rock’n’roll’s history, as well as immortalized in Cameron Crowe’s 2000 film Almost Famous. However, as rock was later replaced by hip-hop at the top of the charts, so too were its groupies. I told you I would be with you.’ It was him on the phone! I couldn’t believe it … He mesmerized me. Page got her number, dialed up Maddox-who thought it was a prank phone call-and when the pair finally met at the Hyatt House weeks later, Maddox was floored to find out it was the real Page on the other end of the phone weeks prior. Lori Maddox, best frenemy to Starr, was deflowered by David Bowie before dating Led Zeppelin’s Jimmy Page. “You did not fuck with Sable Starr.” If you did, you were socially iced. ![]() Though there were others on the groupie circuit, Starr was dubbed “queen of the groupies,” longtime pal Lori Maddox told Thrillist. ![]() ‘Til a New York Doll carried her away…” he sang. For a time, she was involved with Iggy Pop, who glorified their relationship in his 1996 song “ Look Away.” “I slept with Sable when she was 13 / Her parents were too rich to do anything / She rocked her way around L.A. Starr infamously lost her virginity at age 12 to Spirit guitarist Randy California. As regulars, they would frequently rub elbows (among other things) with rock’s major players, like Mick Jagger, Rod Stewart and Alice Cooper. Growing up in L.A., the “baby groupies”-as they were known-would button down West Hollywood’s Sunset Strip, flexing their fake I.D.s at hot spots like the Rainbow Bar and Grill, the Whiskey A Go Go, and Rodney Bingenheimer’s English Disco. Sable Starr and Lori Lightning (real name Lori Maddox) slept with almost every big name rocker starting in the early ’70s. In collaboration with Obvious History is a weekly series which unearths forgotten moments in pop culture’s past, where the famous and the fascinating collided.
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