“No matter how hard I try, I just can’t give it up. In 2019, the Little Rock woman told KTHV: I was determined to become a famous groupie.

Hamzy also received attention for her claim that she was propositioned by Bill Clinton, then governor of Arkansas. (AP) Connie Hamzy, a rock ‘n’ roll groupie from Arkansas who was immortalized as sweet, sweet Connie in the 1973 Grand Funk Railroad hit We’re an American Band, has died. “I became a groupie at 15 and since then it has become an addiction,” she told the London Sun in an interview. ' Sweet ' Connie Hamzy Parente (Janu August 21, 2021), also called 'Sweet Sweet' Connie or Connie Flowers, was an American woman who was known as a groupie who claimed to have had sex with numerous rock musicians. She even published her own memoir in 1995 titled “Rock Groupie: Intimate Adventures of “Sweet Connie” From Little Rock.” She was interviewed several times, and she claimed to have been with some of the biggest names in rock like Joe Walsh, Eddie Van Halen, Don Henley, ZZ Top members, Huey Lewis, Peter Frampton, Paul Stanley, and many more. “‘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. She would later be checked into hospice Thursday, with a suspected liver or pancreas disease. According to reports, Hamzy traveled to the hospital Tuesday after suffering from stomach pain. “‘Folks, you’re not gonna believe what we just got in the studio, it’s the new release from Grand Funk Railroad!'” she recited. ARKANSAS, USA Connie Hamzy, better known by her alias ‘Sweet, Sweet Connie’ died Saturday night around 7:30 p.m. She was swimming at Lake No 1 in Little Rock after her high school graduation.

An obituary posted by Griffin Leggett Healey & Roth Funeral Home in Little Rock said she died Saturday. I was determined to become a famous groupie, Hamzy, who lived in Little Rock, told KTHV in 2019. In one interview with KTHV, she recalled the first time she heard it. Connie Hamzy, a rock 'n' roll groupie from Arkansas who was immortalized as sweet, sweet Connie in the 1973 Grand Funk Railroad hit We're an American Band, has died. Drummer Brewer sang the lines, “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.” Hamzy achieved fame after a shoutout in the first verse of the aforementioned song.

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