Miss Pamela

Pamela Des Barres  (born Pamela Ann Miller on September 9, 1948 in Reseda, California) is a former rock and roll groupie, author, and magazine writer. Des Barres was born in Kentucky. During elementary school, her father moved the family to southern California. Her mother was a housewife and her father worked for Anheuser-Busch and occasionally worked as a gold miner. She idolized The Beatles and Elvis Presley as a child, and fantasized about meeting and dating her favorite Beatle, Paul McCartney.Later, upon discovering the Rolling Stones, she daydreamed of Mick Jagger, while growing up in Los Angeles in the early 1960s.

A high school acquaintance introduced Des Barres to Don Van Vliet, better known as Captain Beefheart, a musician and friend of Frank Zappa. Van Vliet in turn introduced her to Charlie Watts and Bill Wyman of the Rolling Stones, which drew her to the rock music scene on the Sunset Strip in Los Angeles. She started to spend her time with The Byrds and other bands, and when she graduated from high school in 1966, she took various jobs that would allow her to live near the Sunset Strip and pursue relationships with rock musicians. One high school art class assignment was to visualize an object that showed both texture and color. Having fantisized about Mick Jagger's male genitalia, it was the subject of her painting, which earned her an "A" grade for the assignment. After securing a position as the babysitter for Zappa, she at last found herself a few years later finally finding multiple opportunities to compare the drawing with the real object. She famously paired up as a friend Jim Morrison, and future sexual targets Mick Jagger, Jimmy Page, Keith Moon, Nick St. Nicholas, Noel Redding, Chris Hillman, Gram Parsons, and actors Brandon de Wilde, Michael Richards and Don Johnson. She was also a member of The GTOs, an all-girl singing group formed by Zappa. In the 1970s Des Barres decided to pursue a career as an actress, and acted in a few movies, including Zappa's 200 Motels, commercials, and a year acting on the soap opera Search for Tomorrow in 1974. 

Nowadays, Des Barres currently writes articles for online and print publications and teaches in Los Angeles. 

Pamela and Frank Zappa

Pamela and Don Johnson

Pamela and Keith Moon

Pamela and Jim Morrison

Pamela and Robert Plant

Pamela and Jimmy Page

Pamela and Michael Des Barres

Pamela and The GTOs

Des Barres wrote two memoirs about her experience as a groupie, I'm with the Band (1987) and Take Another Little Piece of My Heart: A Groupie Grows Up (1993), as well as two other non-fiction books, Rock Bottom: Dark Moments in Music Babylon and Let's Spend the Night Together: Backstage Secrets of Rock Muses and Supergroupies (Chicago Review Press, 2007). I'm with the Band was re-released as a "updated edition" in 2005.

(Wikipedia, fanpix, imdb, fanpop, pameladesbarres.com, scans from"I´m With The Band, Confessions of a Groupie")