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VH1 Rock Docs: Let’s Spend the Night Together

Meet Pamela Des Barres, writer, journalist, rock `n roll historian and Queen of the Supergroupies. She is most famous for her 1987 tell-all I’m With The Band, an intimate portrait of her sexual exploits and longtime escapades with such notorious rockers as Mick Jagger, Jim Morrison and Jimmy Page. “Miss Pamela” as she was christened during her ’60s heyday as a member of all-girl band the GTOs, has spent the last few decades extolling the merits of the rock concubine lifestyle. She has given light to some of the most personal details of rock `n roll’s greatest. In her latest book, Let’s Spend the Night Together: Backstage Secrets of Rock Muses and Supergroupies, Pamela focuses on her successors and some of her contemporaries. The book provides the perfect framework for “Lets Spend the Night Together,” which follows Pamela on a road trip as she visits many of these legendary women. (Premiered Dec 15, 2010) Episode details…

Rolling Stone Exclusive:

Former Stones, Dylan Superfan Pamela Des Barres on ‘Greatest Groupies’

Des Barres says, ‘Renee Zellweger, Nicole Kidman, Gwyneth Paltrow, especially Winona Ryder — they’re all groupies because they love musicians’ Read more …

LA Times Pop & Hiss:

I’m with the band: Rock’s most famous groupies tell all for VH1 documentary ‘Let’s Spend the Night Together’

During the 1960s and early ’70s, as such rock royalty as Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin and the Rolling Stones burned up the charts, a prominent set of women played a key, but quiet, role in the proceedings.

They were the dedicated fans, the ones who took their love of rock ‘n’ roll a step further by assuming the role of groupies. They proudly served as treasured paramours — and oftentimes muses — to some of rock’s most iconic statesmen. Read more…

Pamela Des Barres: She Had Your Fun

The R&R gallery in downtown L.A. is teeming with young rockers and well-dressed boomers one recent evening. The photographs on display show beautiful young ladies in various degrees of undress, hanging out with heavyweight rock luminaries of the 1960s and ’70s. Read more…

Pamela Des Barres & Friends – Tura Satana and Elvis

Patti D’Arbanville reads about Tura Satana from Pamela Des Barres’ new book ‘Let’s Spend the Night Together: Backstage Secrets of Rock Muses and Supergroupies’ at Soho McNally Robinson on July 9 2007. Tura, a beauty queen/stripper, taught Elvis some of her moves, both onstage and off.