Is There A Bio Or Photos Of Geraldine Edwards The Groupie That The Character Penny Lane Of Almost Famous Was Based On?

No, there is not. Geraldine Edwards has been married since 2006 and is a legal professional and a business woman. She is definintely not interested in posting a website or a bio. By all accounts she is a very private person. She prefers for people to not take pictures of her to post to the internet. She turned down offers twice to write a book about her personal experiences. She considers that disrespectful to her friends and former dates and values her privacy as well as the privacy of those she knows who are well-known or famous. There are two pictures of Geraldine Edwards posted to the internet. One is of her walking with Robert Palmer at the Ivor Novello awards and the other is of her on the cover of Robert Palmer's 1975 pressure drop. Although she enjoyed herself when she was a teenager and going backstage to concerts she is now firmly focused on her current life and marriage.

There is no official bio on Geraldine Edwards, and as I understand it that is the way she wants it. She considers herself a private citizen and not a public or famous person. There is a picture of her attending an awards ceremony with Robert Palmer, and one of her on Robert Palmer's Pressure Drop album which was taken in 1975. There was also a picture of Robert Palmer and Geraldine Edwards taken on the beach that was posted for awhile. This is what is known about her. She was born and raised in San Diego, California, where she started going backstage to concerts in the seventies. She attended Clairemont High School and then attended College after her graduation, earning her Paralegal Studies degree. She has worked in the legal field in since 1980. While working she earned graduate degrees in Paralegal Sciences and Business Administration. She has dated many well known musicians, among them Robert Palmer, Eric Clapton, Rick Springfield, Roger Daltry, Rod Price of Foghat, Dave Hill of Slade, Neal Schon of Journey and Bobby Hatfield of the Righteous Brothers. She also had a brief relationship with Sir Anthony Hopkins in the early eighties. Although she has been given the opportunity to write a book about her famous relationships, she had politely declined the offers. She believes in retaining others privacy, and would not consider going into detail over any of her relationships to the press or in a book. Geraldine Edwards was the late Robert Palmer's girlfriend at the time of his death, and the two had been dating since his 1999 divorce from Susan Palmer. They had met in 1975. She met her husband, Anthony Flemming-Mueller in early 2004, and they married in 2006. Her husband is not a musician, he is a Medical/Legal Expert and a practicing attorney in California, New York, and England. The couple live in Los Angeles County. They also own a law practice together, where Geraldine works as a Legal Administrator for the firm. In addition to that, she also owns two small businesses which have been in existance since the early nineties. She was a longtime employee of the Attorney General's Office of the State of California. She and her husband own homes in Los Angeles County and Lancaschire England, as well as an apartment in New York City. They are very happily married. Although she does not regret her past she enjoys living in the present. She is now in her fifties, and is the proud aunt of many nieces and nephews, and is close to her family. She has four siblings, named Roxanne, Allison, Daniel and William. Both of her parents are deceased. She is notable also for being the great grandaughter of Aleister Crowley, who was her maternal grandmothers father. Her late father's cousin was the News Broadcaster Douglas Edwards. She has an interesting lineage. And finally, she was the lead County Psychic for the County of San Diego, which is a city of over three million people, working in conjunction with the San Diego Police Department in the nineties.

I worked with Geraldine Edwards at the Attorney General's Office of the State of California from 1997 to 2006. She worked there as a Paralegal and I recall her being very nice to me. She was my Supervisor. I got to know her fairly well after she arranged a surprise baby shower for me when I was pregnant with my third child. She rarely spoke of her experiences as a groupie in detail but she did admit to dating a lot of musicians when she was younger, including Roger Daltry, Rick Springfield, Eric Clapton and of course, Robert Palmer. When Almost Famous came out, she nearly died. She would laugh about it, saying that she was one of the very few people around who had to have their miscreant teenage adventures chronicled in a film, follwing that up by stating that she could not get away with anything. She had a really good sense of humor, and I don't recall her ever having an arrogant attitude like a lot of people would have had under the circumstances. One thing she said was that these experiences did not make her a better person than anyone else, she simply was a woman who had many unique experiences, period. I remember the first time that Robert Palmer came into the office to pick her up to take her to dinner. I had a complete fit, even though I had been married for years upon years and was a mother of two. I had a serious crush on Robert Palmer when I was younger and even had posters of him on my wall when I was a teenager. When she introduced him to me I was nearly struck silent. The following day I brought in my posters which I had held on to and asked her if Robert Palmer could write something on them and autograph them for me. She had them back to me in three days time, with a sweet note from Robert and his signature. Whenever Robert Palmer came to pick-up Geraldine after work, he went out of his way to introduce himself to her co-workers. He was friendly and polite to everyone. When Robert Palmer died, Geraldine took a brief leave of abscence to organize her affairs. Shortly after she returned, a funny incident occured. One of the Attorneys who worked on the floor Geraldine and myself worked on thought he was going insane because he thought he had seen Eric Clapton at Geraldine's desk. He pointed this out to her the follwing day and she told him he was still in possession of his faculties, because it was Eric Clapton. He visited her at the office more than once. One thing I remember about Geraldine was that she was always active in local charities. She always said that we were lucky to have the lives we did and should help others in any way we could. I was sad to see her leave in 2006, but I knew that she was leaving to move in with her then boyfriend in Los Angeles, whom I had also met. I thought he was fabulous. It's not easy to be a doctor and a lawyer at the same time, but as he was a Medical Legal Expert he had succeded in doing so. All the other information mentioned by the other two individuals who contributed to this site is correct. She did attend Clairemont High School, and she still got visits to the office from police officers she had worked with while she was the County Psychic. I was very impressed with this and tried to get more details out of her about the situation, but she said confidentiality was paramount in this regard. She really could not discuss any aspect of it. When she got married she let me and a few others at the office know that she was friendly with. She referred to herself as the Grandma Moses bride. I spoke with her a few weeks ago because she was down for the Rock and Roll Marathon as she was participating in the half-marathon. She wanted to visit with me, my husband and the kids. It was great to see her. She's still as beautiful as she always was. She is a successful Legal Administrator now, having recieved her Masters in Paralegal Studies and Business Administration. When I asked her if she missed her younger days, she told me that she loved getting the oppourtunity to have the experiences that she did, but assured me that life gets better as you get older, and that he has never been happier. She was always kind and solitious to those she knew and her ego never got in the way of her life. One of her nieces, of which there were many, is going to be attending UCLA in the fall and is going to be living with her as she attends school. Her neice was born and basically raised in Spain, as her sister married a Spanish National, and this will be the first time that she will be actually living in the States. Geraldine is very happy about that and looking forward to having her. I really don't think that Geraldine considers herself differenct from any other normal person and no offense, but she is extremely private. She would not be interested in having a biography written about her. I suspect that she would think that that would be silly.

My name is Suzanne. I have known Geraldine Edwards, now Geraldine Flemming-Mueller, since 1975. I met her through going backstage, to wit, I was hanging out at the San Diego Sports arena when I was a teenager hoping to get a chance to get backstage to one of the concerts. I really did not know what I was doing, but I had seen Geraldine going backstage to all of the concerts that I had hung out at. She looked friendly, not hard, like pictures of some of the groupies I had seen, and I felt comfortable enough to approach her and ask her how I could go about getting backstage. She turned out to be really nice and really intelligent, and told me that if I was willing to listen to her about what to do and what to not do, she would take me backstage with her. This was at the Electric Light Orchestra's show. I agreed. She made it perfectly clear to me that in every social structure, even in the groupie lifestyle, there would be rules and regulations if you wanted to be successful. I thought she might know what she was talking about so I took her advice and did as she instructed me to do. I got to date Keith Moon, Keith Emerson and Rick Derringer, among others. I was always gratful to her for giving me the chance and the great advice. She never referred to herself or the others that hung around with her as "band-aids" and she never OD'd either. But I was part of a group of girls that pretty much listened to Geraldine that referred to ourselves as "the Ladies." Geraldine's nickname was "Mom" because she was always clucking over us, and she would not let any of us leave town with a musician that we really did not know that well without our mad money or a phone number to call in the event of an emergency. She was and is very smart about situations of any kind and a good judge of character. In other words, if something was going off the rails, she could tell right away, and she would try to get herself and her group away from a problem or dangerous situation. As I said, her judgment was good so we would listen to her. One time Scooter Herring, the Allman Brothers road manager invited me and some of the other ladies over to his room after a show at Balboa Stadium. Geraldine did not like the looks of Herring or his behavior and warned us not to attend the party. We ignored her this time and insisted on going. She then said she was going to join us to keep an eye on things because she was suspicious of the man. None of us were twenty-one, so Herring said he would order cocktails for us. We were too young to go into the bar. Geraldine had said that Dicky Betts had warned her about Herring and told her that he did not trust him, so she watched Herring like a hawk. She caught him putting something in our drinks when they arrived and while Herring's back was turned she silently mouthed the words "Do not drink those drinks. Herring just dumped something in them. Were leaving." When he turned around, we acted normal. Each of us except for one girl went to the restroom, one by one, and dumped the drinks into the toilet. The girl that insisted on drinking her cocktail was ready to pass out. We got the girl out of the room and got out of there as quickly as we could. Geraldine cautioned us to stay away from the man and not take his calls. The following day he was busted for possession of heroin. We were horrified. As I said, a smart lady. Needless to say, me and Geraldine have stayed in contact over the years. I last spoke with her about a month and a half ago. I asked her if she would mind if I wrote something about her on this site as I wanted people to know the type of person she was, someone I respected and liked since I was a teenager. She said O.K., so I finally got up the gumption to write. You really won't find any biograpies written of Geraldine because she has turned down all offers to write a book or to have websites posted about her. She said and I quote "Susie, there are so many more important people to read about than myself. I would not even consider it." All the contributions to this site are correct. This is the basic information that she does not mind being revealed. She first started going backstage to rock concerts when she was fourteen. The first rock star she met was Peter Wolf in 1971, who took her backstage to her first concert. She continued going backstage routinely until 1976. After that she attended concerts sporadically, but she would still go backstage once in a while. She did in fact attend Clairemont High School and San Diego State College after that. And she does hold two graduate degrees, and is a Legal Administrator. She has dated many musicians. I remember the night that Eric Clapton appoached her and introduced himself to her. For once, Geraldine, who was silver tongued, was at a loss for words. I reminded her of that night more than once. All the names listed as those that Geraldine dated are right on. She does have two brothers and two sisters, whose names are Allison, Roxanne, Daniel and William. Her brothers are now in their sixties. She got married to her husband, who is charming, handsome, and intelligent, he is both a Doctor and a Lawyer, go figure, in 2006. They are very, did I say very, happily married. She had no children, and she lives in Los Angeles County, with homes in New York and England. She had done great. She and her husband are heavily involved in charites and are both really nice people. I remember when Almost Famous came out, some of the girls, now women, wanted to give her a party to celebrate. She told me at that time that her boyfriend, who was no other than Robert Palmer, was really upset about the whole thing. He told his entourage and friends that he did not even want to hear the name of that film, period. He really did not want to even think of Geraldine as having ever dated anyone but him. He was that way about her. Geraldine still takes the time to keep in contact with those that were her friends. I can't really write a biography about her because I am not a writer and she would not like one written anyway, but I wanted to put down my impressions of her.

This is amazingly detailed, and seems like it was all written by the same person...Geraldine?!

My name is Elizabeth and I wrote one of these comments about Geraldine, who was my co-worker at the Attorney General's office and my friend. My comment is the third one posted. Insomuch as Geraldine has turned down offers from Delacorte and Atrium to write a book about her experiences, I can assure you that none of these comments are written by Geraldine. That is preposterous and offensive. Perhaps the comments are detailed because the majority of them written are by those who in fact know Geraldine, and do know of her history. If you would like to further dissent, perhaps you would like to speak with Cameron Crowe. I'm sure he would have a response for you.

My name is Suzanne and I actually did write the fourth comment on this site. The reason that there is so much detailed information included in my comment is because I have known Geraldine since the seventies and I was present at some of the situations that I described. Geraldine warned me before I wrote in that I would more than likely be hearing from, as she pharased it ," the Sour Grapes Contingent ", and I have not been dissapointed here. There is no way Geraldine has written any of these comments. As Elizabeth has stated above, a person who receives offers to write her memoirs has no need to write comments about herself. I guarantee you that I am for real, as is my comment. Thanks.

All these answers sound like they were written by the same person? I assume you have irrefutable, empirical proof to back up your allegation? Hardly. I have read all of the answers, clearly written in good faith, and it is evident that they are penned by separate individuals, as referenced by their own statements. I know that to be an absolute fact because I wrote the second answer. And I assure you I am neither a woman nor is my name Geraldine. I am a man named Griffin. For those who are interested, as I suspect a lot of people are, I happened to know Geraldine Edwards, now Geraldine Flemming-Mueller, through my late mother, Vicki Carson. My mother was one of the entertainment reporters for the San Diego Union Tribune in the seventies. My mother met Geraldine backstage at the San Diego Sports Arena in 1977 when she was twenty-four years old and Geraldine was nineteen years old. She was there to interview Ted Nugent. My mother struck-up a conversation with Geraldine, who she later told me helped to make the interview happen. They became friends, and my mother, who was a divorcee, would socialize with Geraldine and also invite her to our house. I was four years old at the time. My mother remained friends with Geraldine, and I saw her often while growing up. I got to know a lot about her, and my mother also advised me about her background. In 1988, when I was fifteen, me and my mother moved to Atlanta, Georgia, as my mom had taken a position working behind the scenes as an assistant producer for CNN. She enacted a successful lateral move in her professional career so to speak. I last spoke to Geraldine four years ago, and she was doing great, as usual. Most people that meet her soon realize that the woman is a force of nature. I always liked her, and when I told her I wanted to enter the music world, she defined for me the meaning of the word "avocation." She stronly advised me to remain with my original plan, which was to be an attorney. Luckily I stuck with that plan, and am a working, successful attorney today. Reviewing some of my old song compositions, I realized I would never have made it into the top ten, if I do say so myself. In answering this question regarding Geraldine, and I felt more than qualified to do so, I was simply trying to give an honest answer to a question asked. The answers were too detailed?!...of course people were going to write detailed answers to the question, that is the reason that the question was asked. Geraldine wrote these? For what nefarious purpose? Get real. Certainly, pass-up offers to write a book deciding that it would be a better idea to simply do this, provide information about herself in this forum for example. Right! Why make a profit when you can attract certain people arriving from the woodworks to make pithy comments about you? To the writer of the insulting comment aimed at my friend Geraldine, I would like to tell you about something my mother would do when myself and others thought it would be cool to slip away from reality in her presence. My mother was a no-nonsense lady. She would point at the sky and ask "What color is the sky?" The answer would naturally be "Blue." Then she would respond "Just checking." Believe me, it was effective. What color do you think the sky is? At any rate, my name is Griffin Rodgers and I contributed answer #2.

Was the song "Groupie(Superstar)" written by Bonnie Bramlett and Leon Russell inspired after meeting Geraldine Edwards backstage with Eric Clapton?

No, "Groupie(Superstar) was not inspired by Geraldine Edwards relationship with Eric Clapton. The song was written in 1969 and Geraldine did not start dating Eric Clapton until 1977, when she was twenty years old. She initially met Eric Clapton in 1975 when she was eighteen years old but they did not start seeing each other until 1977. Eric Clapton was the houseguest of Chris Blackwell, the then owner of Island Records. Geraldine Edwards and Chris Blackwell were friends, introduced through Robert Palmer in 1975. Geraldine Edwards was in attendance at several of Chris Blackwell's parties and Blackwell was in the habit of taking pictures of his party guests. He was showing Eric Clapton some of his pictures during his visit with him and Clapton recognized Geraldine Edwards. He asked Blackwell if he had Geraldine's current phone number so that he could call her. Blackwell volunteered to call Geraldine and put Clapton on the line to her. Insomuch as Eric Clapton was staying at Chris Blackwell's vacation home in Malibu and Geraldine lived in San Diego, they made a date that same day with Eric Clapton coming down by limosuine to pick up Geraldine. They dated from 1977 to 1999, although Eric Clapton was married for part of those years as was Geraldine, who was married briefly in the early eighties. In 1999, Geraldine Edwards started dating Robert Palmer, after his divorce that same year from his second wife, Susan Eileen Thatcher. She had known Robert Palmer since 1975. Later on that same year, Eric Clapton moved in with Melia McEnry, his now wife, whom he had been dating since 1998. Althought they were no longer romantic partners they remained friends. -Griffin Rodgers-

I can answer this question, although I have read several more than adequate answers entered here. Geraldine Flemming-Mueller nee Edwards has friends who are protective of her and are known to go to the mat for her, but she is no Howard Hughes, not by a longshot. She keeps private information about herself and her family far from the eyes of the public, but she is very socially active. She simply utilizes common sense in keeping her private life private. The reason I know this conclusively is because my wife is the CEO and CFO of Geraldine's CPA Agency, which shall remain unnamed here for the sake of privacy. She has held those titles since the inception of the company. I don't write here with trepidation because Geraldine does not mind her friends writing about her, and I am numbered as one of her friends. I will say that she does not allow pictures of herself to be posted to the Internet in the interest of maintaining her anonimity. If any do appear, and they have, she has them discreetly taken down. FYI, a picture of Geraldine did appear depicting her walking to an awards show with Robert Palmer, but the picture of the woman at the Ivor Novello awards is not her. In addition to that, the man in the picture is Robert Plant. The woman that is pictured is named Nicole and she is Robert Plant's longtime personal assistant. As for a bio being prepared about her, well, she is just not interested. She has firmly stated that she is not intersted in a website being created on her behalf or in writing her memoirs. Offers have been propounded to her on both of these fronts, which she declined. Although she does not consider herself inviolate, as some people do, she does not mind general information being provided about herself as she knows it really can't cause her any harm, and some people are curious about her. She was born Geraldine Angel Edwards on June 13, 1957 in Los Angeles county to Tamara Leah and Samuel Edwards. Some of her friends said San Diego, but it was put down to being an honest mistake. Her birthplace was Los Angeles. She did start going backstage in 1971 when she was fourteen years old. She laughlingly told me that she was a "teenage opportunist", she has always had a great sense of humor. She does have four siblings, William, Daniel, Roxanne and Allison and a fleet of nieces and nephews. Her great grandfather is Aleister Crowley. She is highly educated and intelligent, two qualities that are not mutually exclusive. She has been involved in local politics in San Diego assisting in electoral campaigns. She had dated some very impressive individuals and is still friendly with many of them. She is low key and laid back. She was engaged to Robert Palmer in 2003. I recall meeting him and him telling me this and I also remember Geraldine's beautiful ruby engagement ring. Geraldine wisely distanced herself from the Palmer Estate and it's subsequent disputes as she cut her legal teeth at a Wills, Estate and Probate legal practice. She has been married since 2006 to her husband Anthony Flemming-Mueller, who is an intelligent, terrific person, a real dynamo. She had been dating him since early 2004. Geraldine and her husband are also business partners, incorporated together in the commission of a successful legal practice. Geraldine is a LLM and her husband is a JD and MD. Their law practice is located in Los Angeles, where their main residence is located, but don't look for their surnames on the masthead. They bill their firm in a different way, which is not uncommon. Geraldine has written commentary on three websites in the interest of social anthropology that are about groupies and their social impact, positive or negative. Her motto is: Be good for your word and honor your promises. She is a stand-up lady and I am glad to know her.

Geraldine Angel Edwards, who now goes by her married name Geraldine Flemming-Mueller, as she has been married since early 2006, does not have a Facebook account and does not subscribe to any social or business media website.

Individuals who do know her have responded to this question on several occasions, all with the same answer more or less, which is that Geraldine Flemming-Mueller is not interested in having a website prepared for her.

Geraldine Flemming-Mueller's friends have made it perfectly clear that she is heavily invested in her marriage, her career, she is a Legal Administrator who is incorporated with her husband, Anthony Flemming-Mueller, in the ownership of a law practice located in Los Angeles, the community, her family, and in human rights agencies and charities. Although her law practice does operate for profit, the firm donates their time pro-bono to Amnesty International, UNICEF, Doctors Without Borders, The Innocence Project and others, and she sits on the board of several charities as a trustee.

She has told those close to her that she enjoyed her groupie years and valued the friends she made during that time, but that she has moved on and is enjoying life in middle-age tremendously.

Clearly, she has no use for a website and will not be giving permission to have on created.