Margaret Moser and the Texas Blondes
Margaret Moser
At the age of fifteen Margaret broke up with her boyfriend
and slept with one of the members of Blue Cheer (1970).
Margaret Moser and The Romantics,
grabbing Jimmy the drummer in the crotch.
Margaret and her girlfriends were named The Texas Blondes
by John Cale. Margaret fell deeply in love with John.
E.A. Srere, Margaret, Jessica and Martha.
Margaret with another Texas Blonde, Dayna Blackwell-Howse.
Kim Fowley had written a song about Iggy Pop, Dayna, John Cale and Margaret.
Margaret and Cindy Wilson of the B-52′s.
From her article Lust for Life in the Austin Chronicle:
It was the dawn of the Eighties. We were stardust and we were golden. We ran around with U2, the Clash, the B-52′s, Talking Heads, the Ramones, the Police, the Plasmatics, Echo & the Bunnymen, R.E.M., the Pretenders, Devo, the Go-Go’s, Psychedelic Furs, Blondie, the Blasters, the Romantics, Rockpile, the Eurythmics, Oingo Boingo …
We loved the boys, and we loved the girls too. Alice took The Edge to church, but I offered to teach Marianne Faithfull to play poker. We bought bandannas at Chrissie Hynde’s request, drove Annie Lennox around, and shopped with Cindy and Kate from the B-52′s.
First honorary Texas Blonde, Deerfrance, background singer with the John Cale Band, who later married Dee Pop, the drummer of the Bush Tetras. Deerfrance says in an interview: That band changed the backstage groupie scene, being an almost all-girl lesbian band
Margaret Moser, Candye Kane and Pamela des Barres.
Margaret Moser works for the Austin Chronicle an SXSW (South by Southwest festival)
Margaret Moser, ex husband Ken Hoge,
Margarets little brother Stephen MacMillan Moser,
Dayna Louise Blackwell and daughter Madeline Claire Blackwell-Howes
and E.A. Srere in the background.
Bianca Jagger
Born Bianca Pérez-Mora Macias, May 2, 1945 in Managua, Nicaragua.
Bianca studied political studies in France
and became involved with actor Michael Caine.
Also in France she met Mick Jagger at a party
after a Rolling Stones concert, and four months
pregnant she married him in 1971 in Saint-Tropez.
Bianca and daughter Jade Jagger.
After her divorce from Mick Jagger, Bianca spent most of her time
in Manhattan, where Andy Warhol sometimes was Jade’s baby-sit.
Roy Halston, Bianca Jagger, Jack Haley Jr. Liza Minelli, Michael Jackson.
Besides political activism and charity activities,
Bianca was also a jet-set party goer.
Famous was her birthday party at Studio 54.
John Lennon, Bianca Jagger and May Pang.
Bianca Jagger and David Bowie.
Bianca Jagger Pictures
Bianca Jagger and Björn Borg.
Bob Colacello and Bianca Jagger.
Iggy Pop and Bianca Jagger.
Bianca Jagger, Mikhail Barysnikov, Mick Jagger, Alana Hamilton.
Bianca Jagger, political more active then ever.
Nurit Wilde
In an interview July 2007 with Geoff Edgers in the Boston Globe,
Nurit Wilde says: “I was born in Israel and left for Czechoslovakia
in 1950 when I was five years old.” The State of Israel, however was
declared in 1948. So she was probably born in Palestine (British Mandate).
Later Nurit moved to Canada and went to college.
In Toronto she met Denny Doherty and Cass Elliot
(later the Mamas and the Papas) trough Zal Yanofsky
of the Lovin’ Spoonful. But he was like a brother to her.
He was in her bed, but didn’t sleep with her.
This information comes from the book: Canyon of Dreams:
The Magic and the Music of Laurel Canyon.
Written by: Harvey Kubernik.
Somewhere in the sixties Nurit moved to Los Angeles.
Took up photography and worked in the lighting booth
at the Wiskey a Go Go. The place to meet a lot of rock stars.
She was with David Crosby, got pregnant, had an abortion.
And was with John Philips and the scene around the Mamas and the Papas.
Took acid with Mama Cass, but didn’t like grass and found a lot
of Laurel Canyon people too apolitical.
Through Peter Tork, whom she knew from his earlier
folk music days in New York, she met Michael Nesmith.
And got pregnant of him.
Nurit with son Jason Nesmith (mid seventies).
Nurit, Michael and Jason (1995).
Nurit Wilde as herself the photographer
in the episode “The Monkees in Texas”.
(YouTube Video) The song is “Words”
Nowadays Nurit Wilde is still a photographer.
Her photo site and Flickr page
A photo of Jason by Nurit.
Barbara Valentin and Freddie Mercury
Barbara Valentin, born 1940 in Vienna as Ursula Ledersteger.
Known as the German Jayne Mansfield.
Appeared as sex bomb in numerous movies and on TV.
Also seen as the German answer to Brigitte Bardot.
Got character roles in Rainer Werner Fassbinder movies.
Angst essen Seelen auf, Lili Marleen,
Faustrecht der Freiheit, Effie Briest,
Martha, Welt am Draht and Berlin Alexanderplatz.
In the eighties, Freddie Mercury, after a wild time
in New York, moved to Munich, Germany. To everybody’s
surprise he started a relationship with Barbara Valentin.
Fragment from Channel 5 documentary Freddie’s Love’s.
Barbara had a wild live herself.
Three husbands, two kids,
and a history of drug problems.
Barbara Valentin died february 2002 in Munich, Germany.
Mary Austin and Freddie Mercury
Mary Austin, born 1951 in London.
Mary worked in the Biba fashion shop in Kensington,
and was dating Brian May, then bassist in the band Smile.
Farrokh Bulsara was a Smile fan,
joined the band, changed the name to Queen,
his name to Freddie Mercury and
took over Brian’s girlfriend Mary.
(video Smile/Queen BBC documentary)
She moved in with him in 1973,
but left some years later saying:
you’re not bisexual, you’re gay.
She got married and had a son,
but remained good friends with Freddie.
Fragments from Channel 5 documentary Freddie’s Loves.
Playlist complete documentary
As in this documentary is stated,
the song Bohemian Rhapsody is about her,
but the song is of course:
Love Of My Live
When Freddie Mercury died in 1991
Mary was pregnant of her second child.
She inherited the majority of his vast fortune.
Divorced and married again in 1998.
May Pang and John Lennon
May Fung Yee Pang born October 24, 1950 in New York.
She was a song-plugger before she worked as
a receptionist for Allen Klein’s ABKCO.
Klein asked Pang to recruit 365 pairs of bare legs
for Lennon’s and Ono’s film Up Your Legs Forever in 1970.
Subsequently she became John and Yoko’s personal secretary annex gofer.
Summer 1973 Ono saw Lennon dating other women,
she suggested to Pang to be the other woman.
Hesitating, Pang eventually went with Lennon to L.A.
After an aborted collaboration with Phil Spector,
they rented a place in Santa Monica, to live with
Harry Nilsson, Hillary Gerard, Klaus Voorman,
Cynthia Webb, Ringo Starr and Keith Moon.
Working on Harry Nilsson album Pussy Cats.
May brought Julian and his father together again.
Surprise, Surprise (Sweet Bird Of Paradox)
is about May Pang.
“She makes me sweat and forget who I am
I need, need, need, need her “.
The 18-month relationship became known as
“The Lost Weekend” a reference to the film and book.
In August 1974 they lived in London and John, naked
on the terrace called May to join him cause he was seeing a UFO.
In February 1975 Lennon reconciled with Ono.
May Pang wrote two books:
Loving John: The Untold Story
Instamatic Karma.
Nowadays May Pang is living in upstate New York
with her two children from Tony Visconti and
has a line of Feng Shui jewelry.
Yoko Ono
Yoko Ono was born in Tokio, 1933.
After the second world war she moved to Scarsdale (N.Y.)
Married and divorced twice, a suicide attempt.
Had a daughter named Kyoko. Moved to Manhattan
and started performances in her Tribeca apartment
(setting things on fire).
An other performance was Cut Piece,
where people were asked to come on stage to cut
pieces from her clothing (video 1965)
John Lennon visited a preview of an exhibition of Ono’s
at the Indica Gallery in London in 1966
According to Pamela Des Barres in an interview with Gary James,
“Yoko Ono was a groupie. She waited outside John Lennon’s gate for weeks
before he finally went to one of her art shows.”
They worked together on Revolution 9
on the White Album in 1968.
Yoko and John married in 1969 in Gibraltar.
Around the marriage they organized a publicity
campaign to promote world peace.
From Paris to the Amsterdam Hilton.
Where to first Bed-in took place.
A trip to Vienna.
Caught the early plane back to London.
Second Bed-in Montreal.
Although George and Ringo are to be seen
on the video, the song was recorded
without George and Ringo. The beginning
of the end of the Beatles.
The next project of John and Yoko
was The Plastic Ono Band, with
Eric Clapton, Klaus Voorman and Alan White.
Their son Sean, born in 1975
After John’s death in 1980,
Yoko dedicated her life to John’s memorial
but also continued her art activities.
Faking orgasm in MoMA New York 2010.
Chris O’Dell
American Chris O’Dell met Apple Records Derek Taylor in L.A.
and went with him to work for the company in London in 1968.
She became good friends with George and Patty.
George wrote this song about Chris.
But she slept only with one Beatle, Ringo.
An affair with Leon Russell led to the song Pisces Apple Lady.
In 1972 she started working for the Rolling Stones.
Keith Richards said that she could take drugs like a man.
And of course ended in bed with Mick Jagger.
Chris O’Dell is the “woman down the hall”
in the Joni Mitchell song Coyote, about a
love triangle with Sam Sheppard.
In 1975/76 she worked with Bob Dylan
on his Rolling Thunder Revue Tour,
and had an affair with him.
She continued working as a tour manager for:
Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young; Fleetwood Mac,
Earth, Wind and Fire, Queen, Linda Ronstadt,
Santana, Phil Collins, ELO, Echo and the Bunnymen.
Chris wrote a book about her life:
My Hard Days and Long Nights with The Beatles,
The Stones, Bob Dylan, Eric Clapton, and the Women They Loved.
She has been married, has a son, divorced,
married again, and has a private practice
as a hypnotherapist in Tuscon.
Linda Eastman
Photographer Linda Eastman, not related to the Kodak Eastman,
single mother of Heather, worked for the Town & Country magazine.
In 1966 Linda got the chance to take pictures of the Rolling Stones
aboard of the SS Sea Panther in New York.
The start of a career in photographing rock stars.
And dating rock stars. Mick Jagger asked her to join him
to a party given by photographer Jerry Schatzberg
in honour of Baby Jane Holzer (a Jagger ex-flame).
She was later asked to be the house photographer at the
Fillmore East concert hall, and worked for Rolling Stone magazine.
Linda is said to have had many amorous relationships with the musicians
she photographed. Most notorious, was her relationship with Jimi Hendrix.
Linda photographed Eric Clapton for the Rolling Stone magazine cover,
but also landed on the cover with Paul McCartney.
In 1969 they married because she was pregnant of her daughter Mary.
Paul adopted her daughter Heather. They had another daughter: Stella.
And a son: James.
Paul taught Linda to play keyboards.
They worked together on Paul’s first solo album: Ram.
She was a member of Paul’s next band: Wings.
The McCartney’s became outspoken vegetarians.
Linda has several cookbooks on her name, and a
product line of frozen vegetarian meals: Linda McCartney Foods.
They agreed to “appear” on the Simpsons
only if the writers agreed to keep Lisa vegetarian.
Linda McCartney died, after battling breast cancer in 1998, aged 56.
A biography by Danny Fields is also online
Stephanie La Motta
Stephanie La Motta, Jake La Motta’s
daughter with his fourth wife Dimitria.
She didn’t have two Beatles,
but a Beatle (Ringo Starr)
and a Beatles son (Julian Lennon).
Rod Stewart and Donny Osmond are also on her list.
Nowadays she’s in wheelchair because of multiple sclerosis.
