Sable Starr

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Sable Starr (* 15 August 1957 in Palos Verdes , Los Angeles County , California as Sabel Hay Shields ; † 18th April 2009 in Reno (Nevada) ) was an American groupie early 1970s. "Scene groupie queen of" (sometimes referred to as the queen of the groupie scene ) in Los Angeles called, she had relationships with, among others, Iggy Pop , Mick Jagger , Rod Stewart , Alice Cooper , David Bowie and Marc Bolan .

biography

Starr first attended concerts in the Los Angeles area with older friends in 1968. According to her own account, she lost her innocence at the age of 12 to Randy California , the guitarist of the band Spirit . Her younger sister Corel Shields (* 1959) had a relationship with Iggy Pop in the fall of 1973. Pop himself described his relationship with Sable Starr 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 LA
ʼTil a New York Doll carried her away ...

Starr was one of the first "baby groupies" to appear in the hip nightclubs on the Sunset Strip in the early 1970s , including the Rainbow Bar and Grill , Whiskey a Go Go and Rodney Bingenheimer's English Disco . During her time as a groupie, she continued to live with her parents and attended high school .

In 1973 she gave an interview to the short-lived "Star Magazine" in Los Angeles in which she reported on her relationships with Jeff Beck , David Bowie , Mick Jagger , Rod Stewart , Marc Bolan and Alice Cooper . Her favorite, however, was the singer of the Led Zeppelin group , Robert Plant .

There was also rivalry with other groupies. Lori Mattix (also Lori Maddox), another “baby groupie”, said that Sable Starr threatened to shoot her if she didn't keep her hands off Jimmy Page . Bianca Jagger , then married to Mick Jagger , brutally denied Starr access to Jagger's hotel room. Model Bebe Buell described Starr as one of the top two groupies in Los Angeles; every rock star who came to town wanted to meet her.

At 16, she ran off to New York with Johnny Thunders , the guitarist for the New York Dolls . The relationship soon fell apart due to Thunders' maddening jealousy and drug problems. After Starr became pregnant, Thunders wanted to marry her, but she refused and underwent an abortion. She moved back to Los Angeles, but kept coming back to New York where she was part of the emerging punk scene.

Starr later moved to Lake Tahoe , Nevada . Until shortly before her death, she worked as a card dealer in a club. She died of a brain tumor at the age of 51 .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Sable Hay Shields Starr on findagrave.com
  2. ↑ a b c d "Star" - all 5 issues from 1973 for download (English)
  3. ↑ Dear Penis Mick . Der Spiegel , September 11, 1989
  4. ↑ Obituary for Sabel Shields in the Reno Gazette-Journal, April 25, 2009 (English)
personal data
SURNAME Rigid, Sable
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Shields, Sabel Hay (maiden name); Scene, queen of the groupie
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American groupie
DATE OF BIRTH August 15, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Palos Verdes , Los Angeles County , California
DATE OF DEATH April 18, 2009
Place of death Reno (Nevada)