In Memoriam
R.I.P. Sweet Sweet Connie
A farewell and tribute to one of the greatest groupies who ever lived
If you’ve listened to classic rock radio in the last couple of decades (or regular rock radio prior to that) you’ve heard of Connie Hamzy. She was immortalized in Grand Funk Railroad’s song “We’re an American Band” when they sing about “Out on the road for forty days/Last night in Little Rock put me in a haze/Sweet, sweet Connie, doin’ her act/She had the whole show and that’s a natural fact.”
This woman was known for offering her favors to not just the main act, but also the crew and any other willing fans and musicians alike. She got a feature in Cosmopolitan at the age of 19 she was so well-known for her antics, and claimed to have already “tak[en] care of two to three hundred people in the industry” at her relatively young age. And to make her story even better, she claims to have been propositioned by Bill Clinton at a hotel in what some consider to be his first sex scandal when Clinton denied it ever happened. Connie took three lie detector tests and passed each one.
“[…] he opened the doors to the laundry room and we go in there and proceed to start groping and fondling. I stroked his cock — he’s very well endowed — and right when we were about to get to it, he moaned and somebody…
