Groupie Girl is a 1970 British drama film

Drama film

A drama film is a film genre that depends mostly on in-depth development of realistic characters dealing with emotional themes. Dramatic themes such as alcoholism, drug addiction, infidelity, moral dilemmas, racial prejudice, religious intolerance, poverty, class divisions, violence against women...

 based around the music scene, directed by Derek Ford

Derek Ford

Derek Ford was an English film director and writer, most famous for sexploitation films such as The Wife Swappers Keep it Up Jack! Sex Express , and What's up Superdoc! .Ford began as a writer in collaboration with his brother Donald Ford , originally...

 and starring Esme Johns, Donald Sumpter

Donald Sumpter

Donald Sumpter is a British actor. He has appeared in film and television since the mid 1960s.-Life and work:One of his early television appearances was the 1968 Doctor Who serial The Wheel in Space with Patrick Troughton as the Doctor. He appeared in Doctor Who again in the 1972 serial The Sea...

 and the band Opal Butterfly

Opal Butterfly

Opal Butterfly were an English, late 1960s band, from London. The band featured Simon King and, for a short time, Lemmy, who met again in Hawkwind. Further members were Robert C...

. The film was written by Ford and former groupie Suzanne Mercer.

Ford later complained to Cinema X

Cinema X

Cinema X was a British film magazine best known for its coverage of sexploitation films. Early issues of the magazine were undated, but it is believed the first issue was published in 1969. The first film to grace the cover of Cinema X was Loving Feeling directed by Norman J. Warren...

magazine "we were shooting in a discotheque one Saturday night and my ears rang right through to Monday morning. I was sick -physically sick- on Sunday from the noise level we suffered".

The film was released in America in December 1970 by American International Pictures

American International Pictures

American International Pictures was a film production company formed in April 1956 from American Releasing Corporation by James H. Nicholson, former Sales Manager of Realart Pictures, and Samuel Z. Arkoff, an entertainment lawyer...

 as I am a Groupie, and in France in 1973- with additional sex scenes- as Les demi-sels de la perversion (The Pimps of Perversion). The film was later re-released in France in 1974 as Les affamees du male (Man-Hungry Women) this time with hardcore inserts credited to ‘Derek Fred’.

Groupie Girl was released on UK DVD in January 2007 on the Slam Dunk Media Label as part of the ‘Saucy Seventies’ series (the earlier US DVD release on the Jeff films label is an unauthorized bootleg.)

Cast

• Billy Boyle
  Billy Boyle
  Billy Boyle is an Irish actor on British film, television and stage. He is a veteran of the West-End stage having played leading roles in over 15 hit shows. In his first West-End musical "Maggie May" he was nominated as best newcomer. Gower Champion then chose him to play Barnaby in "Hello Dolly"...
  
   as Wesley
• Donald Sumpter
  Donald Sumpter
  Donald Sumpter is a British actor. He has appeared in film and television since the mid 1960s.-Life and work:One of his early television appearances was the 1968 Doctor Who serial The Wheel in Space with Patrick Troughton as the Doctor. He appeared in Doctor Who again in the 1972 serial The Sea...
  
   as Steve
• Richard Shaw as Morrie
• Esme Johns as The Groupie - Sally
• James Beck
  James Beck
  Stanley James Carroll Beck was a British actor best remembered for his role as Private Joe Walker, the cockney spiv in the popular BBC sitcom Dad's Army. The cast was mainly composed of older actors, but Beck was one of the younger members.-Early life:Beck was born in Islington, North London and...
  
   as Brian
• Paul Bacon as Alfred
• Neil Hallett as Detective Sergeant
• Flanagan
  Flanagan (model)
  Maureen Flanagan, best known by her stage name Flanagan, was an early tabloid model.She had an acting career in the late sixties/early seventies, mainly in bit parts on The Benny Hill Show, Monty Python and several British sex comedies. She also played the lead role in the Danish film The Loves of...
  
   as Thief
• Eliza Terry as Suzy
• Belinda Caren as Pat

Soundtrack listing

(Original album)

Side 1

1. You’re A Groupie Girl (Opal Butterfly)
2. To Jackie (English Rose)
3. Four Wheel Drive (The Salon Band)
4. Got A Lot Of Life (Virgin Stigma)
5. I Wonder Did You (Billy Boyle)
6. Gigging Song (Opal Butterfly)
7. Disco 2 (The Salon Band)
8. Now Your Gone, I’m A Man (Virgin Stigma)

Side 2

1. Yesterdays Hero (English Rose)
2. Love Me, Give A Little (Virgin Stigma)
3. Looking For Love (Billy Boyle)
4. Sweet Motion (The Salon Band)
5. Love’s a Word Away (English Rose)
6. True Blue (The Salon Band)
7. Groupie Girl, It Doesn’t Matter What You Do (Virgin Stigma)

• English Rose were Lynton Guest, Jimmy Edwards and Paul Wolloff, who also have minor roles in the film. Guest later became a sports journalist and recently authored the book “The Trials of Michael Jackson”.