Sabel Starr (born Sabel Hay Shields) (August 15, 1958 – April 18, 2009) was a noted groupie, often described as "queen of the groupie scene" in Los Angeles during the early 1970s. She was known to have dated Robert Plant, Iggy Pop, Richard Hell, Johnny Thunders, Stiv Bators, and David Bowie. Sable was one of the first "baby groupies" who in the early 1970s frequented the Rainbow Bar and Grill, the Whiskey-A Go-Go, and Rodney Bingenheimer's English Disco; these were trendy nightclubs on West Hollywood's Sunset Strip. The girls were named as such because of their young age. Sable and the other groupies were also referred to as the "LA Girls of '72".
Her closest friends in Los Angeles were fellow groupies, Lori Maddox and "Queenie". Iggy Pop wrote a song about her and Thunders entitled Look Away. She died in 2009 of brain cancer. [1]