The golden days of the groupie might be over by now, but in its heyday fans went as far as hiding in bathrooms just to score some time with their favourite stars.
Rod Stewart was forced to dress as the ‘Sex Police’ while on tour, and would regularly catch his pals in the act and aim to stop them romping with members of the public.
His guitarist Jim Cregan revealed that they would don white boiler suits to get in the role, and “seven or eight” band members would try to stop the others having sex.
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He explained: “”The ‘Sex Police’ had a job to stamp out sex on the road. Not if it was you, but if it was somebody else having sex you had to stop them.
“The details of how this worked – first of all we had uniforms. I remember we turned up in Germany one day.
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“The uniforms were white boiler suits with the insignia of something rather naughty on the pocket and the motto ‘cruella sed justi’, which in Latin means ‘cruel but fair’.”
The band members would ask for all the spare keys to their hotel rooms to storm the bedrooms of anyone romping – and sing: “Sex police, we’re the sex police!” before trashing the room and throwing the groupie out.
But not all those wild encounters were so easy to stop.
From the Beatles’ wild orgies to Gene Simmons setting a romping record, Daily Star takes a look into the wild world of groupies.
Bizarre fish rumour
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According to various members of Led Zeppelin, they once took things a tad too far with one groupie who loved to be tied up.
The band allegedly took a live mud shark close to her private parts for a bit of spice in the bedroom.
One report said that while staying at the Edgewater Inn in Seattle – where guests could fish from their hotel rooms – they hauled in a 17-year-old fan called Jackie, who “really liked being tied up”.
According to the book Rock Stars Do The Dumbest Things: “The obliging Englishmen ordered a rope from room service. Next, Jackie removed her clothes and the boys tied her to the bed.
“Then the road manager entertained the band by taking a red snapper and introducing it to the girl’s private parts.”
Other reports claimed that once disrobed, the band instead “proceeded to stuff pieces of shark into her vagina and rectum.”
The reports were never confirmed, with Snopes confessing that they are likely a “mixture” of true facts and falsehoods.
Romping record
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Kiss hell-raiser Gene Simmons set an epic sex record of his own – and confessed to sleeping with 4,800 groupies in his lifetime.
But when he married wife Shannon Tweed, she made him burn all the polaroids he’d taken from his encounters in a bizarre ritual.
Coming in close on the sex scale was rock drummer Carmine Appice, who claims to have slept with 4,500 groupies in his day.
Beatles orgies
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At the height of Beatlemania, John Lennon worried that the band’s public image was way too sanitised – when in real life they were busy getting down with their fans in wild orgies.
He said at the time: “There was nothing about orgies and the s**t that happened on tour.… The Beatles tours were like the Fellini film Satyricon.”
Paul McCartney denied taking part in these orgies and said they were more John’s realm, but he did confess to “celestial” sexual encounters with groupies of his own.
The band would even pleasure themselves in front of each other, with Paul telling GQ: “We were all just in these chairs, and the lights were out, and somebody started masturbating, so we all did.”
Age of consent warning
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While touring the US in 1981, members of the band Duran Duran were handed a list with the age of consent in every state – so that they didn’t end up in any trouble.
Organisers of the tour were worried that Simon Le Bon, John and Roger Taylor and Nick Rhodes were sleeping with so many fans they’d get arrested for underage sex.
John Taylor explained in his autobiography In the Pleasure Groove: “Of absolute necessity for any touring musician is the itinerary.
“In the left-hand corner of each page of the US itinerary, there was a number, usually 18, 21, or 20. It was months before I was let in on the secret. The numbers referred to the legal age for sexual intercourse in that particular state.”
Groupies in bathroom
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Former heavyweight champion Mike Tyson used his own groupies as a way to ease his adrenaline before a boxing match – because he was afraid that if he didn’t, he would accidentally kill his opponents.
His ex bodyguard Rudy Gonzales told The Sun: “One of the greatest secrets with Mike was that he needed to have sex in the dressing room before fights.
“I would have to find a groupie, it did not matter who it was. He’d say ‘if I do not get laid I will kill this guy right now.’”
He added: “Sometimes he’d go in with them for a minute, bang the s*** out of them, snap his neck and say: ‘Okay this guy is going to live tonight.’”
Mötley Crüe sex worker orgy
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If Tommy Lee sharing explicit nude snaps to social media wasn’t wild enough, when he was touring with his band Mötley Crüe the lads got up to much worse.
From having wild orgies with sex workers to mud-wrestling strippers, the touring life was not a quiet one.
At one point, Ozzy Osbourne even snorted red ants – and his own urine – beside a swimming pool.
Nikki Sixx explained of a night out in London: “We went to this Russian place, until 4am. All of a sudden eight waiters come out with silver platters, take the lids off and there’s lines of cocaine with silver straws for us for dessert.”
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