I don't know if it was because it was dated, immature, or just your typical girl drooling over rock stars, but I couldn't get into this. I found myself rolling my eyes quite a bit, and flipping ahead to find more lurid details. Nonetheless, I put it down. Not fun or a quick read as I had hoped; boring and juvenile is more like it.

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This book is wonderfully written, surprising, touching, heartbreaking and vulnerable. I'm very glad she wrote this book. I know that the character penny lane played in the movie Almost famous was loosely based on this author. She must have been very charismatic aside from beautiful. It was very refreshing to hear the woman's perspective It made me want to read more of her books. You just can't help wishing good things for such a kind and warm spirit. We are all vulnerable human beings, with both flaws and gifts. How wonderful to go dancing through life as she did, living life to it's fullest. I tried explaining this book to some friends, for the most part they didn't understand, I suspect that is the general misconception, however they are wrong, and I will wait for them to read the book to talk to them about it.

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Great chewing gum for the mind, and interesting cultural history. If you're a boomer who really wanted to run free with rock-n-rollers, this will be a treat for you. Pamela is a happy and spiritual being, and always has been, and no doubt this was part of her appeal to so many musicians. Carry on, Miss Pamela!

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Great book. Keeps your interest from the start

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tell all book on Mick Jagger, Don Johnson, Jimmy Page, Jim Morrison and on and on...

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wow this girl was wild loved the book brought back alot of memories from the 60s anf the 70s I wasnt a groupie but saw alot of concerts

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I read this book as a teenager and I really liked it! I remember I loved duran duran, and then there was a band called the powerstation or something like that and a few of the members of duran duran were in it, so I got the book because Micheal Des Barres wife wrote it. Good book of a tell all groupie who ends up marrying someone famous. Pretty juicy!

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I gave this book 4 stars because I really did like it but then again...... I really didn't. I'm so conflicted on how to review this book. I'm not sure how to describe the way Pamela writes, poetic at times, self fullfilling at others, plain out not understandable throughout most of it...she rambles a lot.

Still I have to say that I enjoyed this book because of the era.....the history of a place in time that will never be again. Rock n roll, hippies, free love, groupies, drugs, sex and all that wild stuff. Exactly why I picked this book up to read! I wanted to be scandalized...but. Big BUT!

What bothered me most about this book was that she never figured herself out. I saw over and over again an insecure, low-self esteem teenager reaching out to anyone that would love her, and her allowing herself to be used over and over in ways that a normal person would never allow. She would fall in love with a rock n roller one day, sleep with him and the very next day be with another rock star, in love with him, sleeping with him, then a week later after being used and dumped she would immediately jump on the band wagon and be with another rock star having sex with him, doing drugs, then the next day be off with another rock star, having sex with him, in love with him, then when dumped, she never loved him, etc, etc...I mean this girl was just all over the place. A BIG rubber ball. I started to feel so damn sorry for her! I gave up counting how many men she was having sex with at one time because I ran out of fingers and toes!!

I'm not trying to judge her but hard not to when throughout the book she judges other girls who are doing the same thing she is. She was not above judging them, calling them names, making fun of them, and the older she got the more judgemental she became of the younger groupies trying to step in to take her place. That kind of got under my skin pretty quickly.

Still, this is a fascinating read about a place in time that is gone and will never be again. I loved the history of rock bands that I grew up with and the names she threw around. This is her first book, she has written 4 more after this one that I know of and she throws a LOT of names around. If you are interested in rock n roll, sex, rock stars, movie stars, groupies, drugs, and just plain crazyiness this is the book to read. I did like it, just didn't like seeing a beautiful young woman debase herself in this manner. I think that sums it up for me!
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