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Originally Posted by MandoMan
Rita Coolidge came up with the idea for the song, which was originally called “Groupies (Superstar).” People tended to make fun of the groupies that would hang around music stars and hope to have sex with them. Coolidge got to thinking about how they felt, compared to our perceptions of them. She told Bonnie Bramlett and Leon Russell about it, and they wrote the song. Bonnie and her then husband Delaney, as Delaney and Bonnie, released it as the B side of a 45 in 1969, with Eric Clapton on guitar. The next year Leon Russell had Rita Coolidge sing it at the Fillmore East during Joe Cocker’s Mad Dogs and Englishmen tour (organized and run by Russell). https://youtu.be/qpZ7BOSmO64?si=7X5_YL7I9Z03Xl00 |
Thank you for that history, very interesting. A while back I read a book, written by a groupie, it was a fascinating history of the 70s and 80s. It's called Rebel Heart and it was written by BeBe Buell.