In addition to Bonham and Moon, Hamzy claimed to have been with Huey Lewis, Joe Walsh, Don Henley, Eddie Van Halen, Paul Stanley, Dr. And we’d go out there and would wander around in the backstage area and then one thing would lead to another.” “So she’d take me out there to the fairgrounds early in the afternoon before the traffic got bad. “She didn’t like to deal with parking, she didn’t like to deal with traffic,” Hamzy told KTHV.
She was just 15 years old when her mother dropped her off at the Barton Coliseum to see Steppenwolf. “My memory of her is of a very outgoing ‘sweet’ girl that wanted to be famous. “So sorry to hear of Connie’s death,” Brewer told Rolling Stone. “‘And you know that dark-haired girl we see backstage a lot wandering around? Listen to the first few lyrics!’ …I was determined to become a famous groupie. “‘Folks, you’re not gonna believe what we just got in the studio, it’s the new release from Grand Funk Railroad!'” Hamzy recited. Hamzy recalled to KTHV that she first heard the song on her transistor radio when she was swimming at Lake No 1 in Little Rock following her high school graduation. Hamzy is best known for her shoutout in the first verse of “We’re an American Band,” where drummer Don Brewer sang, “Out on the road for 40 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.” UB40 Founding Member, Saxophonist Brian Travers Dead at 62Įverly Brothers' Don Everly, Early Rock Pioneer, Dead at 84 Taylor added that she had been put in hospice prior to her death, but a cause of death was not immediately available.Ĭharlie Watts, the Rolling Stones' Drummer and Inimitable Backbone, Dead at 80 She was 66.Īllen Taylor, director for Little Rock’s Griffin Leggett Healey & Roth funeral home, confirmed Hamzy’s death to Rolling Stone. “Sweet Sweet Connie” Hamzy, a famous groupie immortalized in Grand Funk Railroad’s “We’re an American Band,” died Saturday in her hometown of Little Rock, Arkansas. SweetSweetConnie-Enhanced - Credit: Art Meripol
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