Now reissued in a B-format edition, Jenny Fabien and Johnny Byrne's story of 19-year-old Katie and her unswerving commitment to sex, drugs and rock n roll now takes it's rightful place as a key novel of the sixties.
When 'Groupie' was first published in 1969 it caused a sensation. The Swinging 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 the real life identities of its principal characters. Most of all, it was highly explicit about a phenomenon that had never before been documented . . .
