5: The Oral History of Star Magazine: Bad But Not Evil

Lost Notes: Groupies

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Music History, Documentary, Society & Culture, Music

4.7 • 721 Ratings

🗓️ 6 November 2024

⏱️ 39 minutes

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A teen magazine so daring, so outrageous, so scandalizing and sexually suggestive that it only lasted…five issues. Star Magazine: from the publishing empire that brought you Hot Rod, Motor Trend, Guns & Ammo, and later in the 90s, Sassy, there was, in 1973, a red-hot new music rag that glamorized the teenage groupie lifestyle rampant on the Sunset Strip. Or did it? We asked the original staff who made the magazine: who, exactly, was a Star girl?

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0:00.0	The following lore included in Lost Nodes Groupies is based on personal histories of sex,
0:05.5	drugs, and rock and roll from the previous century.
0:08.8	Any stories, as told to us, belong solely to the speakers and their memories.
0:15.0	Previously, on Groupies.
0:17.8	The whiskey wasn't considered a real job to my family.
0:21.6	It was a hobby.
0:22.6	And they just let me go thinking she's going to crash and burn, it's coming.
0:26.6	Those kind of guys are always looking for someone new.
0:29.6	Like, hey, do you have any cute girlfriends?
0:31.6	You want to bring up to, you know, I wanted to meet these guys.
0:36.6	I wanted to be in those circles.
0:38.7	I wanted to go to the parties.
0:41.5	Going to Hollywood meant getting away from all the realities
0:45.7	and just having whatever adventure lay in front of me for that evening.
0:51.6	I never knew. It was exciting.
1:09.2	Okay, this is the archive of Star Magazine from 1973, and we are looking at a PDF because all of those dudes who fetishize glam rock teens and 70s culture have bought all of the physical copies on eBay for hundreds of dollars because they are collectors.
1:22.6	We know this type of person.
1:26.6	Freaks. Total freaks.
1:28.4	Yeah, Joe has never dated anyone like that.
1:33.1	It was...
1:34.3	I was hanging out with my two best friends a little while ago.
1:37.4	They're named Olivia and Joe.
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