Photo: David Cairns/Express/Getty Images1/28Who: Alice Ormsby-Gore Nationality: English Band Mate: Eric Clapton Vibe: A “posh hippie,” the dark-haired Alice, daughter of the diplomat Lord Harlech, met Eric Clapton, to whom she was briefly engaged, through a society decorator (or so the story goes) when she was just sixteen. Ormsby-Gore, who performed in Hair in New York in 1972, was, in the bloom of youth, alternatively described as a “a glittering aristocrat on the Chelsea circuit,” and a “waif-like girl-child.”
Photo: Andrew MacLear/Getty Images2/28Who: Anita Pallenberg Nationality: Italian Band Mates: Brian Jones. Rumored to have had a dalliance with Mick Jagger during the filming of Performance. Had three children with Keith Richards. Vibe: Lean and slightly androgynous, the multilingual art student turned model and actress who had flirted with the Warhol set prior to meeting Brian Jones in Munich not only had “image and attitude” but a killer wardrobe as well (the first money she earned modeling in Paris she spent on a snakeskin jacket), that the band members were said to borrow. “I feel as though I’m rather like the sixth Rolling Stone,” Pallenberg has declared. “I’m certain that any one of them would break up the band for me. It’s a strange feeling.” Inspired: the Stones’s song “Anita”
Photo: Popperfoto/Getty Images3/28Who: Anna Wohlin Nationality: Swedish Band Mate: As a teenage student Wohlin was introduced to Brian Jones by a fellow Swede at London’s Revolution club. Vibe: Though once described by as being “free-spirited” (and not into drugs), Wohlin, a long-haired blonde, cultivated a put-together style. Oversize sunglasses and floppy hats were both chic and practical, offering some protection from the paparazzi (Wohlin was with Jones on the night he died).
Photo: Popperfoto/Getty Images4/28Who: Astrid Lundström Nationality: Swedish Band Mate: Bill Wyman Vibe: A blonde Swede in London studying English, she met Rolling Stone Bill Wyman out on the town, and was by his side for sixteen years. “Other than them,” she’s said, “I was the only one who was there the whole time.”
Photo: Evening Standard/Getty Images5/28Who: Charlotte “Charly” Martin Nationality: French Band Mates: Eric Clapton, George Harrison, Jimmy Page, with whom she has a daughter, Scarlet Vibe: “She was very beautiful in an austere way, classically French, with long legs,” wrote Eric Clapton of Martin, an oval-faced strawberry blonde model who appeared in British Vogue. The Who’s Roger Daltrey is responsible for introducing her to Clapton, one of several rock stars who fell, coup de foudre, for this good-looking Gael.
Photo: © TopFoto6/28Who: Chrissie Shrimpton Nationality: British Band Mate: Mick Jagger Vibe: The secretary sister of the mega-model Jean, she started dating Mick Jagger when he was enrolled at the London School of Economics. Chrissie was a scenester who “dabbl[ed] in acting, some modeling, going to the ‘right parties.' ” This former convent student favored bangs and headbands and, despite her penchant for sometimes “dressing like a beatnik,” she also had a sort of fragile, little-girl-lost look. Inspired: The Rolling Stones songs “Under My Thumb,” “Stupid Girl,” “Nineteenth Nervous Breakdown,” “Out of Time,” “Yesterday’s Papers”
Photo: Fred W. McDarrah/Getty Images7/28Who: Devon Wilson Nationality: American Band Mate: Jimi Hendrix Vibe: A larger-than life personality, Wilson, who once gave an interview about her fling with Mick Jagger while wearing a plunge-neck floral-print Ossie Clark hostess dress, was also known to sport designs by Jimi Hendrix’s couturier, Colette. Inspired: Hendrix’s songs “Dolly Dagger,” “Freedom,” and “Crash Landing”
Photo: Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images8/28Who: Donyale Luna Nationality: American Band Mate: Rumor has linked Luna to Brian Jones. Vibe: A kilt-wearing Catholic school student, Donyale Luna (born Peggy Anne Freeman), scouted in her hometown of Detroit, caused a stir in New York in 1964, and, a year later became the first African-American model to cover British Vogue. Luna, who liked to wear colored contacts and was frequently photographed for the glossies in Paco Rabanne’s Space Age looks, cultivated an otherworldly vibe—reportedly announcing: “I'm from the moon, darling.” Off-camera, this model and actress who appeared in The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus, as well as in films by Federico Fellini and Andy Warhol, worked a more bohemian look.
Photo: Ed Caraeff/Getty Images9/28Who: Pamela (Miller) Des Barres; Linda Sue Parker; Lucy Offerall, Christine Frka, Sandra Lynn Rowe Leano, Mercy Fontenot, aka Judith Edra Peters, Miss Cynderella aka Cynthia Plaster Caster (Cynthia Wells, later Cynthia Cale-Binion) Nationalities: American Vibe: The GTOs or Girls Together Outrageously (as they finally became known) was a band/art happening formed by musician/impresario Frank Zappa. Its members (two of whom had worked for Zappa as nannies), were SoCal groupies whose stage names were adopted from ukulele player Tiny Tim’s custom of addressing all women as Miss. Dressed in thirties lingerie, or getups from a Laurel Canyon denizen named Szou—“the first person in town,” says GTO member Pamela Des Barres (author of I’m With the Band), “to sell vintage clothes, to put them in a hip, boutiquey situation, and combine them. She would take them apart and create other pieces of finery”—they were certainly head-turners. As Rolling Stone noted in 1969: “The GTOs in all their freaky splendor are . . . outta sight. The visceral reaction is full freak.”
Photo: Keystone/Getty Images10/28Who: Jane Asher Nationality: British Band Mate: Paul McCartney, who the child actor turned TV presenter met in 1963 when she was in a Radio Times shoot with the Beatles. Vibe: Blue-eyed, freckled, stunningly fringed redhead Jane Asher, described by Beatles chroniclers Peter Brown and Steven Gaines as “a girl of breeding and innocence.” Asher (distantly related to the poet T.S. Eliot through her aristocratic mother), once told a reporter that she didn’t wear “very short skirts.” That didn’t stop her from being half of “the glamorous young couple in Swinging London.” Inspired: Among the songs McCartney wrote about Asher are “And I Love Her,” and “We Can Work It Out.”
Photo: Ted West/Central Press/Getty Images11/28Who: Jenny Boyd Nationality: British Band Mates: Donovan, Mick Fleetwood (with whom she has two daughters) Vibe: Born Helen, the oval-faced Jenny took her nickname from her sister’s doll. A besmitten Donovan would describe the model, who worked closely with the Brit label Foale and Tuffin, as a “fair-haired English rose.” She and sister Patti later opened an antique shop called Juniper, after the song he wrote for her. Inspired: Donovan’s “Jennifer Juniper”
Photo: Jeremy Fletcher/Getty Images12/28Who: Jenny Fabian Nationality: British Band Mate: Pink Floyd’s Syd Barrett Vibe: Dark-haired, petite, modish, Fabian’s style morphed from Beat to boho as her interest turned from poetry to pop. “It goes back to being difficult at school and being an automatic rebel,” she said in an interview. “Initially this meant being a beatnik as this seemed to me to be the best alternative to someone who worked nine to five.” Known for: Writing Groupie in in 1969 with poet Johnny Byrne, a thinly veiled account of her life as a “band aid.” Inspired: A photo portrait by photographer Michael Ward that is in the collectsion of the National Portrait Gallery, London
Photo: Iconic Images / Baron Wolman13/28Who: Lacy Nationality: American Band Mate: The Yardbirds Vibe: A San Franciscan hippie who looked like a Burne-Jones subject, Lacy was snapped by Baron Wolman for _Rolling Stone’_s special issue "The Groupies and Other Girls," released in February 1969, inspired by the photojournalist’s fascination with what he called a “subculture of chic.” “I was on this thing where I was interested in outrageous people,” Lacy said in an interview after she’d settled down. “Musicians were the only cats who were groovy enough.”
Photo: Mirrorpix/Courtesy of Everett Collection14/28Who: Linda Keith Nationality: British Band mates: Keith Richards, Brian Jones, Jimi Hendrix Vibe: Keith, one of sixties London’s “great free-floating spirits” according to Eric Burdon of the Animals, was also described as having the “the dramatic looks of a rock ’n’ roll Elizabeth Taylor.” This well-heeled model, who is said to have been discovered while delivering mail at Vogue House, is credited with discovering Jimi Hendrix (then a member of Jimmy James and the Blue Flames) in New York City. Inspired: The Rolling Stones’ “Ruby Tuesday” was written for her, as was Hendrix’s “Send My Love to Linda.” Imogen Poots plays Keith in the rock doc Jimi: All Is by My Side.
Photo: © 1999 Topham Picturepoint/ TopFoto15/28Who: Linda Lawrence Nationality: British Band Mates: Brian Jones, with whom she had a son, Julian; Donovan, with whom she had two daughters Vibe: “My muse, my sunshine supergirl,” is how Scottish folksinger Donovan describes the lanky, long-haired Lawrence, a country girl turned “beatnik model” who eventually became his wife. Her first love was the Rolling Stones’ Brian Jones, who she met when she was fifteen and an aspiring hairdresser, and with whom she had a son, Julian. (It’s even been suggested that she created Jones’s signature haircut.) Inspired: Donovan’s songs “Legend of a Girl Child Linda” and “The Trip”
Photo: © Alain Dejean/Sygma/Corbis16/28Who: Linda Eastman McCartney Nationality: American Band Mate: Paul McCartney Vibe: When single mother Linda Eastman, a talented photographer who published Rock and Other Four Letter Words in 1968, met the only unmarried Beatle, Paul McCartney, she was, observes biographer Philip Norman, “a striking combination of preppy penny loafers and seductive star-snarer.” Vogue, who profiled the newlywed in 1969, had another prescient take on this rock-loving chick who would become an ardent animal rights activist and an award-winning member of Wings, and mother of three more children (including designer Stella); describings McCartney as “a salt-of-America girl who likes horses and tennis and living in the country.” Inspired: “Every love song I write,” said Paul McCartney, “is for Linda.”
Photo: Evening Standard/Hulton Archive/Getty Images17/28Who: Louise Ferrier Nationality: Australian Vibe: "I was a very silent person, a very naive person,” the wide-eyed Ferrier has said of her younger self. She was also adventurous, becoming an icon of the late sixties London underground when she was famously photographed with Oz editor and boyfriend Richard Neville on a chaise longue in a miniskirt. She also appeared long-haired and naked, with designer Jenny Kee on the cover of Oz, the satirical magazine with which she was involved and that became embroiled in a famous obscenity trial. Inspired: Neville’s memoir Hippie Hippie Shake, was made into a movie starring boho babe Sienna Miller as Ferrier.
Photo: © Betmmann/Corbis18/28Who: Marianne Faithfull Nationality: British Band Mate: Mick Jagger Vibe: “For the world in general she is the flowing-haired, miniskirted, convention-knocking epitome of the drug generation it cannot understand,” a British journalist wrote of Faithfull in 1967, observing that the Catholic schoolgirl and budding singer was becoming a teen icon. Angelic was the adjective frequently used to describe the young Marianne Faithfull, daughter of a Austro-Hungarian baroness, before she fell in with the Stones, into a habit, and, miraculously, out the other side, meanwhile establishing herself as a remarkably talented musician and songwriter. Inspired: The Hollies’s “Carrie Anne;” “And Your Bird Can Sing” by the Beatles; and Rolling Stones classics like “Let’s Spend the Night Together” and “Wild Horses.”
Photo: Larry Ellis/Express/Getty Images19/28Who: Marsha Hunt Nationality: American Band Mate: Mike Ratledge of Soft Machine; Mick Jagger Vibe: “She’s the new kind of Natural who does her own thing—deliciously. She is she. And she is free. Real girl, all girl. Mover out from Philadelphia, dropper out from Berkeley,” is how Vogue celebrated Marsha Hunt, the Afro-ed musician and Hair actress, in its 1969 issue. While living in London she had an affair with Mick Jagger, who was still involved with Marianne Faithfull, and became the mother of his first child, Karis. “There was Marsha bursting out of her white buckskins. She was stunning,” Faithfull later recalled. “If I’d been Mick in that situation I might have done exactly the same thing.” Inspired: Hunt allegedly inspired the Stones’s song “Brown Sugar.”
Photo: © Bettmann/Corbis20/28Who: Mary “Maureen” Cox Starkey Nationality: British Band Mates: Ringo Starr, George Harrison Vibe: A Liverpudlian hairdresser, Maureen was a teenager when she met Ringo Starr (née Starkey), with whom she’d have three children. She called him Ritchie, he called his “street-smart working-class lady,” who liked “heavy Cleopatra eye makeup” Mitch. Inspired: McCartney wrote a tribute, "Little Willow," for Starkey.
Photo: AGIP/AD/Everett Collection21/28Who: May Pang Nationality: American Band Mate: John Lennon Vibe: When John Lennon and Yoko One took a “sabbatical” from one another in 1973, Ono suggested that Lennon take up with her lithe assistant, May Pang. Lennon described their time together, spent in part in sunny Los Angeles, as his “Lost Weekend.”
Photo: © Bettmann/Corbis22/28Who: Nico (nee Christa Päffgen) Nationality: German Band Mate: Brian Jones, Jim Morrison Vibe: This cool blonde femme fatale and fashion icon who transitioned fluidly from modeling to acting (for the likes of Fellini and Warhol) and singing, eventually, with the Velvet Undergound, was characterized by music journalist Tom Nolan as “the most awe-inspiring, lonely, ghostly-death’s-head-of-a-god-awful-gorgeous-girl in the whole round world.” Inspired: Those who can credit her as muse include Leonard Cohen, Bob Dylan, and Lou Reed who wrote the Velvets’ “I’ll Be Your Mirror” for Nico to sing.
Photo: Estate of Edmund Teske/Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images23/28Who: Pamela Courson Nationality: American Band Mate: Jim Morrison Vibe: Jim Morrison’s “cosmic mate” Pamela Courson was a fine-boned, freckled, redhead hippie chick from NorCal who ran away to West Hollywood, where she met Doors frontman Morrison, and where she would open her short-lived boutique, Themis. Inspired: Courson inspired Doors songs like “Queen of the Highway,” and “Blue Sunday,” and was played by Meg Ryan in Oliver Stone’s 1991 biopic, The Doors, alongside Val Kilmer.
Photo: © Bettmann/Corbis24/28Who: Pattie Boyd Nationality: British Band Mates: George Harrison, Eric Clapton Vibe: Blue-eyed, doll-faced Boyd, might once have described herself as “a spinster and a model,” but the rest of the world knows her as “the A-list musicians’ muse” who prompted songs like “Wonderful Tonight” and “Layla.” A former convent girl, she was once photographed by Vogue in a Tommy Nutter suit and described by the magazine as “a long-legged yellow-haired duck of a girl who looks as though she’d sprung full-blown from Mary Quant’s drawing board”. Her life as a muse started with an audition for the Beatle’s A Hard Day’s Night. She has been married to George Harrison and Eric Clapton, whom she describes, respectively, as her soul- and playmate. Inspired: The Beatles’ “Something,” Clapton’s “Layla” and “Wonderful Tonight”
Photo: Keystone Features/Getty Images25/28Who: Suki Potier Nationality: British Band Mate: Brian Jones Vibe: A fashion model who survived the car crash that killed Tara Browne (who is referenced in the Beatles song “A Day in the Life”), she took up with the aristo’s friend and Rolling Stone Brian Jones, who became “her shoulder to cry on.” While the slender blonde, who, like many of Jones’s girlfriends, was considered to be an Anita lookalike, Marianne Faithfull described her as “very beautiful but perfectly silly.”
Photo: Everett Collection26/28Who: Shelley Duvall Nationality: American Band Mate: Paul SimonVibe: Though she dated folk singer Paul Simon and modeled some bohemian get-ups for Vogue in 1971, and this “Texas Twiggy” was more naïve than naughty. When director Robert Altman discovered her, she declined the audition. He finally won her over, and among the roles he gave this actress, Vogue once described as an “Orphan Annie-eyed movie natural,” was L. A. Joan, a groupie, in Nashville. A role she researched: “I went to night clubs where rock stars hung out for about a month,” she told the New York Times, “and I talked to girls who were groupies, and I learned.”
Photo: © 2006 Alinari/TopFoto27/28Who: Tina Aumont Nationality: American Vibe: Vogue introduced Aumont as “the melty-eyed actress-daughter of Jean-Pierre Aumont and Maria Montez.” When she was just seventeen, this dark-eyed, dark-haired beauty married actor Christian Marquand, nineteen years her senior, who was tight with the Rolling Stones. They lived in London in the late sixties when Aumont was filming Modesty Blaise, and she spent her nights out with the likes of Anita Pallenberg who starred in Marquand’s movie Candy.
Photo: Keystone/Getty Images28/28Who: Uschi Obermaier Nationality: German Band Mates: Mick Jagger, Jimi Hendrix, Keith Richards Vibe: “I just wanted to be free. I didn’t think I wanted to be a rebel; I just wanted to be free and do the things I wanted to do, without anyone hindering me.” This dark-haired habitué of backstages and German communes, who started as a teen model (and appeared in a 1973 Vogue shoot by Richard Avedon), became both a sex symbol and poster girl of the counterculture. Inspired: A biopic, Eight Miles High.
