A lot of folks are showing up here looking for news on Sable Starr. As soon as I see an "official" obit I'll run it. Until then, the closest thing seems to be the following, from Laist.com.
Sable Starr has Left the Scene 1958-2009
According to her friends Phillipe Marcade, Bebe Buell, and Legs McNeil, Sable Starr passed away in her sleep last Friday of cancer. She was 51 years old. Her death has not yet been confirmed by official sources, but those closest to her have been posting tributes to her since yesterday on the internet. Most people learned the sad news in a posting on Legs McNeil's Facebook, which was in response to an email sent to him from Phillippe Marcade. McNeil has given LAist permission to reprint the email, which said, "Hi Legs, Sweet Sable died of cancer, in her sleep, last friday night. I (sic) taledk to her boyfriend Bill this morning....We'll miss her dearly. Phil"
Sable Starr was born Sable Shields in Palos Verdes in 1958 (some sources say 1957). She has been known as a scenester and a socialite, but she is most often referred to as a supergroupie. Hanging out at Rodney Bingenheimer's English Disco, she got to know musicians such as T-Rex and Mott The Hoople. It is rumored that she dated Keith Richards, Richard Hell, and Iggy Pop. Probably her most well-known romance was with Johnny Thunders of The New York Dolls. She moved out to New York with Thunders in the 70s, but soon returned to Los Angeles. Their ill-fated love story is told in the Iggy Pop song, "Look Away".
Bebe Buell posted this tribute on Facebook;
She has several brain tumors- small ones. It was too late to do anything once she found out. She was not alone- she had her BF and her daughter. Her attitude was good and she went peacefully. Just went to sleep on Friday night- April 17th- and never woke up.
I will always remember this 15 year old girl running up to me at The Hyatt House in 1973 screaming "you are Godhead!!" I said "what's that?". Her reply was "Supreme Itness".
I'll never forget her. That whole time inspired the first song on my new album "When We Were Godhead"....I wish she was here to hear it.
According to her fan site, Sable Starr has been most recently living in Nevada with her two children. Starr has been quoted as saying, " It was so hard to talk about things. My life has been so normal for the last 20 years....its was fun. Although, when I left the scene, I left it for good."
6 comments:
sabel was my husbands aunt and he never knew how fab her life was. he just knew her as auntie sabel. I am so thrilled to know my 3 children might have some her greatness in their genes.
Just read an obit in today's UK "Daily telegraph" (May 20th). Reads like it was cribbed from your site!
Let me know if you have the link. Thank you.
I'm crap at doing links but if you go to www.telegraph.co.uk & look in obituaries, it shd be there. Or I could scan it & email it to you? Love your site, look forward to reading more. Take a look sometime at the 'zine I write for - www.mudkiss.com. All best-
Den Browne
I had a look at the Telegraph obit section but couldn't locate it. Oh well...Wil check out MudKiss. Thanks!
Here's the Telegraph obit in full...
"Sable Starr
Aged 51. Known variously as a "scenester", "socialite" & - perhaps most accurately - as a "supergroupie", she was born Sable Shields in Palos Verdes, California. As a young habitue of Rodney Bingenheimer's English Disco on Sunset Strip, Los Angeles, in the 1970s, she was well known to bands such as T-Rex & Mott the Hoople. Said to have attracted the interest of Keith Richards, Richard Hell & Iggy Pop, and enjoyed a more protracted relationship with Johnny Thunders of the NY Dolls, with whom she lived for a time in New York - their affair is the subject of the Iggy Pop song Look Away. Later worked as a blackjack dealer in Nevada, where she lived with her two daughters. Died of a brain tumour."
good times-
db
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