Other bands followed when the Zeppelin tour finished. "Before then boys had not really been part of my life, but suddenly it just snowballed," says Josette. "There was always a new band coming into town. I met Deep Purple, Ten Years After and all the other British bands of the time." She left high school and became a full-time party girl, continuing to live at home, supported financially by her mother, who took phone messages if bands wanted to see Josette.
The groupie`s attitude to sex was that it constituted a currency to be traded for a share in the Olympian glamour radiated by rock stars. Josette maintains that there was nothing wrong with the way she used her body. "The sexual revolution was all happening. Sex was good. I was living out fantasies. For example, I saw Ian Gillan from Deep Purple on the cover of Circus magazine and I fell in love with him. I called his hotel and told him I wanted him. And he just invited me up. It was that easy."
Initially, Josette insists that there were never any bad moments, that it was just "free sex and very frivolous" and that she was well respected. But as we talk more, the cracks begin to show.
Even at the height of the sexual revolution, the rules of the groupie game were still set by men and none of the girls was invulnerable. Josette recalls how, during a Deep Purple tour, Ian Gillan rejected her one day and she found herself stranded in the middle of nowhere without a cent to her name.