![]() The two would later have a threesome with Starr. Then, months later, she and fellow underage groupie Sable Starr ended up in a hotel room with Bowie, and the rock star took Maddox into a bathroom, got in a bath with her, and then had sex with her. (Bowie was in his mid-20s.) According to her, Bowie pursued her, but she initially rejected him. Here are 11 rock stars who have been linked to underage women.Īs we detailed after Bowie's death, David Bowie had strong links to the Baby Groupies of Los Angeles, and famous groupie Lori Maddox (often spelled Mattix) has repeatedly told the story of how she lost her virginity to Bowie when she was just 14. Some of the girls - who are now grown women - linked to the men on this list have steadfastly maintained that their relationships with rock stars were consensual and overall positive experiences in their lives. And for some reason, many of the rich, powerful rock stars, who in their sexual primes could presumably sleep with anyone they chose, gravitated toward girls not old enough to drive. The Beatles' opening track on their debut album, "I Saw Her Standing There," begins with the line, "She was just 17 / You know what I mean?" "Thank Heaven for Little Girls" idealizes future sexual potential ("Those little eyes so helpless and appealing / One day will flash and send you crashing through the ceiling"). Chuck Berry released "Sweet Little Sixteen" in 1958. ![]() Pop culture's fascination with teenagers is nothing new. Often, it seems, those women were underage - girls, not women. He was actually mocking false prophets and going for a Jim Morrison vibe with that cover, for what it’s worth.Browse through the annals of rock history, and you'll find, just right of the spotlight, the women with whom the most famous and sexually appealing men of the era chose to spend time. Which was too bad, as it’s a great album too. That whole album is strong, from the title song to “ Hero” to “Sin for a Season.” “ On the Fritz” from that album is also a sneaky beast of a song, as is “I Just Wanna Know.” His I Predict 1990 album cover got him accused of dabbling in Tarot because that’s the kind of thing we argued about in Baptist churches in 1989. I’ll go with “We Don’t Need No Color Code” from Meltdown (1984) because it tackled a huge issue, racism, from the Christian perspective decades ago and with a moral fire that few can match. “You save the whales, you save the seals, you save whatever’s cute and squeals, but you kill that thing that’s in the womb, would not want no baby boom.” “ Bad Rap” was in fact a bad rap that skillfully skewered the green pro-whale/anti-baby left. “ I Want to Be a Clone” tackled being a maverick in the face of conformist culture. He has put out so many songs across so many decades in so many different sounds - and under different bands, such as Sixpence None the Richer (he wrote and produced their massive hit “ Kiss Me“) and Newsboys, not to mention Chagall Guevara and Steve Taylor and the Perfect Foil - that his best is very hard to pin down (so is his worst, for whatever that’s worth). He had a knack for making words that shouldn’t rhyme live together and pretty soon he was stealing the show at Christian music festivals and being written up in Rolling Stone. Steve Taylor was a youth minister who started writing songs for his church youth group. They’re back to sporting the yellow and black and still flying with the harmonic riffs. Here’s “Do Unto Others,” which they released in 2020. Stryper, for one, broke through in that era and they’re still going strong. Some of them wrote about issues years or decades ahead of their time, some went all the way from Eagles-style country to experimental, some faded away, and some covered Led Zeppelin covering Blind Willie Johnson and are still cranking out good stuff. Some we’ve long forgotten, and nature has reclaimed them like undergrowth on a jungle temple. Some of them were interesting and creative trails that are not yet finished. Even One Bad Pig.įrom the mid-1970s to the mid-1990s, a whole bunch of bands followed after the 60s Jesus Music phenomenon led by the late Larry Norman and blazed some trails. What heavy stuff, you probably didn’t ask? Well, Steve Taylor for one. Actually, for those days I was something of a rebel, a Baptist bad boy, because I eschewed the likes of Steve Green and Sandi Patty for the heavy stuff. But it was Texas just south of Dallas in the 1980s and it was our culture. Whether I was born or born again that way we’ll never know.
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