Groupie - Jenny Fabian and Johnny Byrne

Book Details:

Country: England
Language: English
Genre:Memoir
Publisher: New English Library
Publication Date: 1969


Fictional Artist:
Groupie is barely fiction, being basically Fabian's memoir with a bit of editing by Byrne. It doesn't really have a plot. At the time it was well understood who the various bands really were.

Artist	Country	Genre	Real World Analogue
Big Sound Bank	UK	R&B	Zoot Money's Big Roll Band
The Dream Battery	UK	Psychedelic	The Soft Machine
The Elevation	UK	Psychedelic	The Nice
The Jacklin H. Event	US/UK	Psychedelic	The Jimi Hendrix Experience
Jubal Early Blowback	UK	Blues-Rock	Aynsley Dunbar's Retaliation
The New York Sound And Touch	US	Psychedelic rock	The Fugs
Relation	UK	Progressive/ psychedelic rock	Family
-	-	-	-
Satin Odyssey	UK	Psychedelic	Pink Floyd
The Savage	UK	R&B	Eric Burdon & The Animals
The Shadow Cabinet	UK	Psychedelic	Spooky Tooth
The Transfer Project	UK	Psychedelic	Dantalian's Chariot

Satin Odyssey's Ben is clearly Syd Barrett, Davey from The Transfer Project is Andy Summers, Joe from Relation is Ric Grech, while Grant is their manager Tony Gourvish. Andy from the Elevations is David O'List, while Sam from The Jacklin H Event is Mitch Mitchell.


Jacket Blurb:

When Groupie was first published in 1969 it caused a sensation. The Swingin' Sixties capacity to outrage may have been starting to decline, but this novel managed to shock all over again. A thinly fictionalised chronicle of Jenny Fabian's adventures with underground rock heroes of her day, Groupie caused a furore for all kinds of reasons... it had the scent of danger that accompanies an authentic original, it ruffled feathers with its matter of fact descriptions of drug taking and sexual high jinks, it prompted guessing games about teh true identities of its principal characters, most of all, it was highly explicity about a phenomenon that had never before been documented. Almost three decades later, this book is still extraordinarily fresh and playing the celebrity guessing game is still fun. Groupie is also the genuine article - no reconstruction of Sixties underground rock culture has ever captured the Zeitgist as as well as this novel.