Take Another Little Piece of My Heart: A Groupie Grows Up is a non-fiction

Non-fiction

Non-fiction is the form of any narrative, account, or other communicative work whose assertions and descriptions are understood to be fact...

 1993 work by former groupie

Groupie

A groupie is a person who seeks emotional and sexual intimacy with a musician or other celebrity. "Groupie" is derived from group in reference to a musical group, but the word is also used in a more general sense, especially in casual conversation....

 Pamela Des Barres

Pamela Des Barres

Pamela Des Barres aka Miss Pamela is a former rock 'n' roll groupie, author, and magazine writer.- Early life :...

. Continuing where I'm with the Band: Confessions of a Groupie

I'm With The Band

I'm with the Band: Confessions of a Groupie is a 1987 memoir by former groupie Pamela Des Barres.The book tells the story of Pamela Ann Miller, a groupie who gets a kind of fame in the 1960s by having wild nights with musicians and actors. Pictures of famous musicians and actors accompany the many...

left off, this book chronicles the ups and downs of her turbulent marriage to actor/singer Michael Des Barres

Michael Des Barres

Lord Michael Philip Des Barres is a British actor and rock singer. He is known for playing the recurring role of Murdoc on the television show MacGyver and for replacing the late Robert Palmer in the band Power Station, fronting the band at the 1985 Live Aid concert...

, including their divorce in 1991. Much of the book is about the effects of the family dysfunction on their son, Nicholas Dean Des Barres.

It also includes brief tales of Pamela's friendships with other celebrities, including Frank Zappa

Frank Zappa

Frank Vincent Zappa was an American composer, singer-songwriter, electric guitarist, record producer and film director. In a career spanning more than 30 years, Zappa wrote rock, jazz, orchestral and musique concrète works. He also directed feature-length films and music videos, and designed...

, Sandra Bernhard

Sandra Bernhard

Sandra Bernhard is an American comedian, singer, actress and author. She first gained attention in the late 1970s with her stand-up comedy in which she often bitterly critiques celebrity culture and political figures. Bernhard is number 97 on Comedy Central's list of the 100 greatest standups of...

, and Jaid Barrymore

Jaid Barrymore

Jaid Barrymore is a German-born Hungarian-American actress, best known as Drew Barrymore's mother.-Early life:She was born Ildikó Jaid Makó to a concert violinist mother and an artist father...

and some jokes called 'If you cried with the book read this and feel better' and 'Guide to a successful divorce'.