The Women of Rock 101

I love rock music and I love hearing the stories of the women who know its history best. The scandal, the drugs, the music! I could nerd all day over their stories of backstage adventures, run ins with the law, groupie outtings and Mick Jagger's weird face. Check out these super groovy books from and about the women who lived, loved and made rock and roll history.

1. Linda McCartney: A Portrait

by Danny Fields

Former journalist and music manager Danny Fields pens this

biography on the late Linda McCartney and her life growing up in 60’s London.

The book follows the friendship between Fields and McCartney as she becomes a

noted photographer and later marries super-Beatle, Paul McCartney.

2. Marianne Faithfull: Memories, Dreams and Reflections

by Marianne Faithfull

The words from this 1960's rock icon's mouth burn deep when retelling her story about being a young, beautiful starlet with a drug abuse problem. Marianne Faitfull 's rocky and revealing story takes you through her love affair with drugs, stardom and Mick Jagger, and beyond what happens when all of it fades.

3. I'm With the Band: Confessions of a Groupie

by Pamela DeBarres

Whether you consider yourself a groupie or a fan, this journey of a girl becoming a woman under the seductive eyes of rock legends hits home with anyone who's loved a band more than just being a fan. Pamela DeBarres, may have not been on the ticket but she was on the bus (doing all sorts of things when wouldn't tell your mother about) living the 60's in full swing. Her eye-opening story of drug abuse, love and celebrity by associate dates back to an era that has, sadly, long passed.

4. Miss O'Dell: Hard Days and Long Nights with The Beatles, The Stones, Bob Dylan and Eric Clapton

by Chris O'Dell

From the woman who saw and lived the life of rock history dreams, Chris O'Dell lets us live vicariously through her recording sessions with The Beatles, her run ins with the Rolling Stones and glimpses inside the inner circles from which only myths

spun from, til now.

5. Wonderful Tonight: George Harrison, Eric Clapton,

and Me

by Pattie Boyd

Former model and photographer Pattie Boyd spills all the details of her marriages to the Eric Clapton and (my favorite Beatle) George Harrison, in this memoir

of model turned muse.