Q&A: Michele Overman, Portland's Other World Famous Groupie

Michele Overman and Pamela Des Barres
Pennie Lane
Portland
"Let's Spend the Night Together: Confessions of Rock's Greatest Groupies,"
Michele Overman
Steven Tyler,
Robert Plant
David Gilmour.
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WW: Do you agree the word "groupie" is now a bit of a dirty word?
WW: You were only 16 when you dated Aerosmith's Steven Tyler, who went to the same high school you did. How old was he?
WW: So what was the future American Idol judge like at 18?
WW: But he wasn't in Aerosmith then, right?
WW: Just two years later you were with Robert Plant? How did you meet him?
WW: And that was that. How long were you together?
WW: I hear you were one of the flower children to inspire the lyrics for "Going to California:" Goin' to California with an achin' in my heart/ Someone told me there's a girl out there/ With love in her eyes and flowers in her hair.
WW: But he was married and eventually you did break up. Is it more painful to break up with a celebrity?
WW: There's another famous groupie named "Sweet Connie" featured in the VH1 show. She says at one point in the show, while standing in front of an Arkansas venue, "How I fought to give blow jobs in this building!" What do you make of her brand of super-groupiedom?
WW: Now girls don't have to be groupies. If they love music, they can start their own band, right?
WW: Out of the three famous men you dated who was the better boyfriend?
"Let's Spend the Night Together: Confessions of Rock's Greatest Groupies" airs Wednesday, Dec. 15 on VH1 at 8:30 pm. The show is based on Pamela Des Barres book by the same name.

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