Edie Sedgwick

Edith Minturn Sedgwick (April 20, 1943 - November
15 1971) was a delicately beautiful American
socialite best known as a star of underground
films made by Andy Warhol in the 1960s.


In 1964, Sedgwick moved to New York to pursue a
career in modelling. She appeared in Time, LIFE
and Vogue magazine|Vogue between 1963 and 1965.
The editor in chief of Vogue, Diana Vreeland,called her an exemplar of the era's youth culture.In 1965 Sedgwick met Andy Warhol and quickly became his favourite "Warhol superstar", featuring in many of his underground films including Poor Little Rich Girl, Vinyl, Beauty No.2|Beauty No.2,and Chelsea Girls. It was during this period that Sedgwick began using drugs, particularly amphetamines.

She became Warhol's Girl of the Year during 1965 when she accompanied him everywhere in the New York social scene. During this period the pair would often dress alike, and Sedgwick frequently called herself Mrs. Warhol. The friendship did not last beyond 1966 when Warhol and Sedgwick made an acrimonious public split.

Following her departure from Warhol's circles,Sedgwick began living at Hotel Chelsea where she became involved with Bob Dylan. Dylan's friends convinced Sedgwick to sign up with Albert Grossman, Dylan's manager. While involved with Dylan, Sedgwick was introduced to LSD.She is rumoured to be one of the main inspirations behind Dylan's seminal 1966 opus Blonde on Blonde and songs as famous and diverse as the tender ballad "Just Like a Woman" and the raucous stomper"Leopardskin Pillbox Hat." She also inspired "Lay Lady Lay."

In 1966, Sedgwick began a tumultuous relationship with Dylan's longtime sidekick Bob Neuwirth.During this relationship she became dependent on heroin and barbituates. The relationship ended in 1967. In April 1967 Sedgwick began shooting on Ciao! Manhattan an underground movie in which she was to star. After some footage was shot in New
York, work on the film was abandoned due to budget and legal problems.

Sedgwick's rapidly degenerating health saw her return to her family in California and spend time in several different psychiatric institutions.In August 1969, she was admitted to the Cottage Hospital in Santa Barbara, California.Santa
Barbara, where she met Michael Post, whom she married on July 24, 1971. Electro convulsive therapy treatments were administered extensively and several efforts at drug rehabilitation were made.

Shooting resumed on Ciao! Manhattan in 1970 and was completed in 1971.

Sedgwick died in November 1971 from barbiturate poisoning; her husband of four months woke to find her dead in bed beside him. Her death was ruled a suicide/ drug overdose. A young woman with an undoubted talent for inspiring the talents in others, Sedgwick has been immortalized in a number of rock songs and continues to be an icon far beyond what her actual achievements might suggest.

Kathleen Hanna

Kathleen Hanna (Born 12 November 1969) is a American musician. She is the lead singer of Le Tigre and former lead singer of Bikini Kill (early 1990s). In between these two major bands, she had a solo project called Julie Ruin.

Kathleen first left her mark on the music world by inspiring the name of Nirvana's hit song "Smells Like Teen Spirit" when she spraypainted "Kurt smells like teen spirit" on one of Kurt Cobain's walls. Teen Spirit is a kind of deodorant that Tobi Vail, Kurt's girlfriend at that time, wore. Tobi and Kathleen both attended The Evergreen State College together and while Tobi was in her first band The Go Team with Calvin Johnson, she had begun to date Cobain, who had been a guest musician on one of The Go Team's singles.

After the breakup of The Go Team both women began collaborating on several influential fanzines which included Revolution Girl Style Now and Bikini Kill, which became the name of the punk band Vail and Hanna commenced to form, with fellow Evergreen College student Kathi Wilcox and Vail's former sometimes bandmate in The Go Team, Billy Karren. Bikini Kill and these zines defined the movement that came to be called Riot Grrrl. With fellow Olympia, Washington band Bratmobile, the group popularized Riot Grrrl throughout North America and Europe. Their first release for the Kill Rock Stars label was a self-titled EP produced by Ian MacKaye of Fugazi. Bikini Kill then toured the U.K., recording a split LP with U.K. band Huggy Bear, and were filmed and interviewed by Lucy Thane for her documentary, It Changed My Life: Bikini Kill In The U.K.. Upon returning to the U.S., the band began working with Joan Jett, who produced their single, "New Radio/Rebel Girl". After the release of this record, Kathleen began co-writing some songs with Joan for her new album.

At the same time Kathleen produced several solo pieces for the Kill Rock Stars "Wordcore" series of recordings. One was released as a 7" single, called "Rockstar" and others on various compilations, including "I Wish I Was Him" (a Ben Lee cover about Evan Dando) on Rock Stars Kill.

When the intense media scrutiny of the Riot Grrrl bands led to the breakup of both Bikini Kill and Bratmobile, Hanna began working on several other projects. The first, The Fakes, was a project involving several other musicians, including Rachel Karns of The Need. The resulting CD, The Fakes was released on Chainsaw Records. Her next project, Julie Ruin was an entirely solo CD, in a more electronic vein, released on the Kill Rock Stars label.

In Portland, Oregon Hanna formed a band with a zine editor she admired, Johanna Fateman, called The Troublemakers, named after a film of the same name by G.B. Jones. This band ended when Fateman relocated to New York City; however Hanna soon joined her on the east coast and with ther addition of filmmaker Sadie Benning , they started another band, this time called Le Tigre. This band continued to pursue a more electronic style of music Hanna had begun to explore with Julie Ruin. The band began recording records for the Mr. Lady Records label, the first being the self-titled Le Tigre, which included the single "Hot Topic". At this time Sadie Benning left the band and J.D. Samson joined and the follow-up CD Feminist Sweepstakes was released. The group switched labels for the release in 2005 of This Island to Universal Records in hopes that this could aid in the propagation of their message of empowerment for women and others marginalized by mainstream culture.

She is romantically linked to Adam Horovitz of the Beastie Boys, who have been together since the 90s, and was also once involved with Dave Grohl of the Foo Fighters and Nirvana. In 2004, she provided the vocal track for the opening of the song "Letterbomb" on Green Day's American Idiot and interviewed Amy Poehler for Interview Magazine.

Let me end this by one of her famous quote:"You learn that the only way to get rock-star power as a girl is to be a groupie and bare your breasts and get chosen for the night. We learn that the only way to get anywhere is through men. And it's a lie."