Books by Pamela Des Barres and Complete Book Reviews
Pamela Des Barres, Author . Chicago Review/A Cappella $24.95 (384p) ISBN 978-1-55652-668-8
A groupie is to a rock band as Mary Magdalene was to Jesus, asserts L.A. rock author Des Barres (I'm with the Band) in this eager, self-congratulatory attempt to rehabilitate the term groupie through two dozen fun and well-documented examples...
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Pamela Des Barres, Author Beech Tree Paperback Book $17.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-688-06602-4
Fortunately, Des Barres injects humor into these accounts of degradation, which exemplify the subculture of rock music. As a California teenager during the wild 1960s, she attached herself to members of various rock bands and other celebrities. More
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Pamela Des Barres, Author William Morrow & Company $20 (304p) ISBN 978-0-688-09149-1
In I'm with the Band, Southern California-based Des Barres chronicled her lustful liaisons with such rock legends as Mick Jagger, Jimmy Page and Keith Moon. This candid sequel, tracing her life since the 1970s, cannot surpass the first book's...
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Pamela Des Barres, Author St. Martin's Press $24.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-312-14853-9
Having parlayed several heady years of rock groupiedom into her two dippy yet heartfelt memoirs (I'm with the Band and Take Another Little Piece of My Heart), Des Barres now offers a lightweight and largely predictable collection of rock's sorriest...
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Pamela Des Barres. TarcherPerigee, $18 trade paper (304p) ISBN 978-0-399-17420-9
Devotees of 1970s rock ’n’ roll are the most likely to be familiar with Des Barres (One Night Band), the so-called “Queen of the Groupies,” but even the uninitiated should find her latest book an energetic, surefire way to flex one’s writing muscles.
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