“So many little girl songs,” notes Kari Krome, songwriter and co-founder of the Runaways. “I slept with Sable when she was 13 / Her parents were too rich to do anything / She rocked her way around LA / ’Til a New York Doll carried her away.” Words are not deeds, of course, though Starr did run away from home to live with a member of the Dolls in NYC at 16, and knew Iggy Pop at that time. The film’s title comes from a track of the same name on Iggy Pop’s 1996 album Naughty Little Doggie, which is a “tribute” to one of the most famous “baby groupies” on Sunset Strip in the 70s, Sable Starr. By the early 1980s, she was no longer part of the groupie milieu.L ook Away (Sky Documentaries) is a documentary that looks directly at the music industry’s attitudes to and abuse of the young girls who were – and we can assume still are – pushed or pulled into musicians’ orbits. She made frequent visits to New York where she had an affair with Richard Hell, befriended Nancy Spungen, and participated in the local burgeoning punk rock scene. He really destroyed the Sable Starr thing'. After I was with him, I just wasn't Sable Starr anymore. She claimed that 'He tried to destroy my personality. Tired of the physical abuse Thunders often inflicted upon her, and unable to adjust to the New York lifestyle, Starr moved back to Los Angeles. He had wanted to marry her after she became pregnant with his child, but she refused and instead had an abortion. Their relationship didn't last, mainly due to his violent jealousy and drug addiction. She went to live with him in New York City. She ran away from home when she was 16 after meeting Johnny Thunders, guitarist in the glam rock band the New York Dolls. Model Bebe Buell described Starr as having been one of the two top Los Angeles groupies of the era, adding that 'every rock star who came to Los Angeles wanted to meet her'. He’s mine.” Her closest friends in Los Angeles were fellow groupies Shray Mecham and 'Queenie'. Lori Mattix, a fellow baby groupie, claimed that Starr once told her to 'keep her hands' off of Jimmy Page, saying 'if you touch him, I will shoot you. According to Starr, she knocked on Bianca's hotel room and when the latter opened the door she was told 'in a few four-letter words to 'get lost''.

Starr admitted to having gotten into fights with rival groupies and she allegedly had a confrontation with Bianca Jagger, who at the time was married to Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger. She was often photographed alongside well-known rock musicians these photos appeared in American rock magazines such as Creem and Rock Scene. When asked how she attracted the attention of the musicians, she maintained it was because of the outrageous glam rock clothing she habitually wore. She added that her favorite rock star acquaintance was Led Zeppelin's lead singer, Robert Plant. She also claimed that she was closely acquainted with some of rock music's leading musicians, such as Jeff Beck, David Bowie, Mick Jagger, Rod Stewart, Marc Bolan, and Alice Cooper. In 1973 she gave a candid interview for the short-lived Los Angeles-based Star Magazine, and boasted to the journalist that she considered herself to be 'the best' of all the local groupies. During the time Starr was a groupie, she continued to live at home with her family and attended Palos Verdes High School to placate her parents. She had considered herself unattractive, so she had a nose job when she was 15.

Starr later described herself at that period as having been 'nuts to begin with. She got started after a friend invited her to the Whisky A Go Go at the age of 14. The girls were named as such because of their young age. Starr became one of the first 'baby groupies' who in the early 1970s frequented the Rainbow Bar and Grill, the Whisky A Go Go, and Rodney Bingenheimer's English Disco these were trendy nightclubs on West Hollywood's Sunset Strip. Her parents were too rich to do anything, Pop later immortalized his involvement with Starr herself in the 1996 song 'Look Away.' It refers to Sable being thirteen, which would be in 1970 or 1971. She had a younger sister, Corel Shields (born 1959), who according to Chris Charlesworth was involved with Iggy Pop in Autumn 1973, when Corel was 13-14. She claims to have lost her virginity at age 12 with Spirit guitarist Randy California after a gig at Topanga, California.

Starr first attended concerts around Los Angeles with older friends who had dropped out of school in late 1968.

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