“Sweet Sweet Connie” Hamzy, a famous groupie immortalized in Grand Funk Railroad’s “We’re an American Band,” died Saturday in her hometown of Little Rock, Arkansas. She was 66.
Allen Taylor, director for Little Rock’s Griffin Leggett Healey & Roth funeral home, confirmed Hamzy’s death to Rolling Stone. Taylor added that she had been put in hospice prior to her death, but a cause of death was not immediately available.
Hamzy is best known for her shoutout in the first verse of “We’re an American Band,” where drummer Don Brewer sang,...
Allen Taylor, director for Little Rock’s Griffin Leggett Healey & Roth funeral home, confirmed Hamzy’s death to Rolling Stone. Taylor added that she had been put in hospice prior to her death, but a cause of death was not immediately available.
Hamzy is best known for her shoutout in the first verse of “We’re an American Band,” where drummer Don Brewer sang,...
- 8/24/2021
- by Angie Martoccio
- Rollingstone.com
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