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Poppy Martins

Poppy Martins, born Marie-France Martins in 1938 in Vallauris (Alpes-Maritimes, France) and died on February 17, 2024 in New-York (USA), was an actress, model, painter and feminist activist fighting against patriarchal values. Also known as a groupie, she was close to Cynthia Plaster Caster and then the GTOs in Laurel Canyon, where she stayed for a few months in 1969. Poppy Martins is said to have had affairs with various rock stars. According to Zouzou (Brian Jones' ex-girlfriend), her break-up with Jim Morrison could be the real reason for the star's fatal overdose. In an book, British writer Paolo Hewitt https://www.theguardian.com/media/2000/may/25/tvandradio.televisionsays he was “not surprised” that David Bowie, whose assistant she was during the recording of the album Pin-Ups at the Château d'Hérouville studio in 1973, could have dedicated a song (“Golden Years”) to her...


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