It is the summer of 1972. Led Zepplin is on a North American tour and has just made a stop in Los Angeles. Lori Mattix (later dubbed Lori Lightening by her pages) is just fourteen years old. She is one amongst many, many groups of young girls scantily-clad walking up and down Hollywood boulevard. Like Cinderella, just one night of their short lives, they can forget all about the troubles of home and simply- live.
“He focused his famously two-colored eyes on me and said, “Lori, darling, can you come with me?” Sable looked like she wanted to murder me. He walked me through his bedroom and into the bathroom, where he dropped his kimono. He got into the tub, already filled with water, and asked me to wash him. Of course I did. Then he escorted me into the bedroom, gently took off my clothes, and de-virginized me.”
-Lori Mattix, to Thrillist on losing her virginity to David Bowie
Why me? she thinks, out of the groups of girls from her school, all just as, if not more beautiful than I, why me?
THRILLIST: Still, you were a 15-year-old kid and he was an adult man with a lot of experience, and power, and drugs. You don’t see any problem with that now?
Lori: I was an innocent girl, but the way it happened was so beautiful. I remember him looking like God and having me over a table. Who wouldn’t want to lose their virginity to David Bowie?
THRILLIST: But did it ever feel like there was something unusual about it?
Lori: No. You need to understand that my life has never been normal. I have always been special. I always felt like the universe was taking care of me.
THRILLIST: Did your mother have any idea what was going on?
I think she knew. But what could she say? My older sister was fucking lowriders and surfers; my dad was deceased; I was with rock stars. But in my head I was still a virgin. As far as school went: forget it. I couldn’t concentrate on classes. I had been pulled into this rock ‘n’ roll life!
Xoxo
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