Register Now!

Sable Starr, RIP

 

The famed '70s rock groupie Sable Starr has died at age 51, it was reported yesterday...on Facebook?

Legs McNeil, author of the punk oral history Please Kill Me, as well as the porn oral history The Other Hollywood, broke the news via status update on Facebook Monday. 

McNeil posted this message from his friend Phillippe Marcade, before the news appeared elsewhere. 

Sweet Sabel (sic) died of cancer, in her sleep, last friday night. I taledk (sic) to her boyfriend Bill this morning. It's so sad, I loved her, she was wonderful. I had last seen her last year as she visted my girlfriend and I in florida. We'll miss her dearly. 

Other accounts online are attributing the cause of death to brain tumors. 

Sable led the post-GTOs (Pamela Des Barres, Cynthia Plaster Caster) generation of groupies in the 1970s with her cohort Lori Lightning. She got an early start at age 13 or 14 and racked up relationships or relations with Keith Richards, Marc Bolan, Mickey Finn, Ron Asheton, Scott Asheton, Iggy Pop, Jimmy Page, David Bowie, Johnny Thunders, Richard Hell, and Stiv Bators. 

Iggy Pop wrote "Look Away" about Sable and Johnny Thunders. 

I slept wlth Sable when she was 13
Her parents were too rich to do anything
She rocked her way around L.A
'Til a New York doll carried her away
Look away Look away


Now he was blond and she was dark
They called him Thunder 'cause he had the spark
The dream he dreamed was straight and pure
But the confusion of life was gonna get him for sure
Look away Look away


They shared their clothes and their cowboy boots
Left them all over the floor while they dyed their roots
They live the dreann and they went non-stop
They did' ok 'til the band broke up
Look away Look away Look away Look away


Unfortunately the needle broke
Their rock and roll love like a bicycle spoke
I found her in a back street with her looks half gone
She was sellin something that I was on
Look away Look away


Now Thunder and me did not part friends
What we did once I wouldn't do again
So he stayed with the pure dream and followed the moon
'Til the drugs in his body made his mind a cartoon
Look away Look away


So a few years later Thunder died broke
Sable had a baby back at her folks
Me I went straight and serious too
There wasn't much else that I could do
Look away Look away


So now that I'm straight I'm settled too
I eat and I slesp and I work like you
I got lots of feelings but I hold them down
That's a way I cope with this shitty town
Look away Look away
Look away Look away

Read Sable's own juicy account of her tryst with David Bowie in this excerpt from Please Kill Me.

Related: 

Mickey Rourke Enjoys the Flasher Groupies in France

Tom Jones' Wife is Rich But Rather Tragic

Groupie Shocked To Find Out Pop Music Douche Used Her For Her Body

Add a Comment