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No, there is no biography of Geraldine Edwards. She has expressed no interest in having one created and she has been asked. There are a few pictures of her on the internet, one of her walking with Robert Palmer at an awards show and another of her and Robert Palmer sitting on the beach taken near his beachfront Del Mar Estate at Blackstar Beach. And she is the model on Robert Palmer's 1975 Pressure Drop. She was Robert Palmer's girlfriend at the time of his death. There was another picture of her walking in London with her brother-in-law and her husband. And there was one of her walking at the Beverly Wilshire Hotel with Eric Clapton from the seventies. She has stated that she prefers that her image not be posted to the Internet, however. She is a private person. There is some information about her available through credible sources, i.e., friends and associates of hers. She only gave two interviews in her life, both in the seventies, and decided that she would give no others. I am sure she thinks there are other people more newsworthy than her. She was born in San Diego, California, in the fifties. Her full name is Geraldine Angel Edwards. She attended Clairemont High School in the seventies, and went on to attend College earning her Associates in Paralegal Studies. She eventually earned her Masters in Paralegal Sciences and Business Administration. She started going backstage to Rock Concerts in 1971, on a lark. She wanted to see if she could do it. She was more than successful at this. The first person who invited her backstage was Peter Wolf who was then in the J. Geils Band. And the rest as they say, is history. She has dated a whos who of musicians, including Eric Clapton, Roger Daltry, Rick Springfield, Rod Price and many others. She was close to many in the music scene, including a couple of Record company presidents, vice-presidents and two Record Company owners. She continued going backstage until 1977. The last concert she went backstage to in 1977 was the Who, where she met Roger Daltry, at the San Diego Sports Arena. From then on she would only occasionally attend her friends concerts, and not on a regular basis. Her parents names were Tamara and Samuel Edwards. Both are now deceased. She has four siblings, William, Daniel, Roxanne and Allison and ten nieces and nephews. She has no children. She is married to a Medical/Legal Expert by the name of Anthony Flemming-Mueller. They have been married since 2006, and met in early 2004. She is a small business owner since the nineties. She has worked in the field of law since 1980. She worked for the Attorney General's Office for the State of California for a number of years. She is now working as a Legal Administrator. She has received offers on two occasions to write a memoir about her personal experiences. She has politely declined those offers. She respects peoples privacy. She has had an interesting life and has some interesting relatives. She was the County Psychic for the City of San Diego for three years. Her relatives include Douglas Edwards, the first newscaster on television. He was her second cousin. Her great grandfather was Aleister Crowley on her mothers side. And her grandfather on her father's side was a Circuit Court Judge. One of her paternal aunts dated and almost married R.J. Reynolds Jr., but changed her mind. She has some interesting people in her family. About her experiences as a groupie, she has said to those close to her that she was glad to have had the experiences, but that life is an ongoing process. You can not live in the past. And according to her friends, she is enjoying her life now, and always has at least three irons in the fire at any given time. She is definitely ambitious and goal oriented, just not about getting personal publicity for herself. She is very happy in her marriage and in her life.

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Was geraldine Edwards Robert palmers girlfriend and the woman who dated Eric clapton rick springfield roger daltry and others the woman almost famous was written about?

Yes she was. Geraldine Edwards met Cameron Crowe in San Diego, California, in 1975 backstage at the San Diego Sports Arena. At the time Cameron Crowe was interested in being a Sports Writer and was a fan of the San Diego Gulls. Geraldine suggested that he widen his range and interview all types of people, including musicians. He took her advice and found that he actually preferred interviewing musicians. It was written in some articles that Pam DeBarres and Bebe Buell were partial inspirations for the Penny Lane character. That is not correct. Penny Lane was eighteen years old and a San Diegan who was a groupie who hung around the "World Famous San Diego Sports Arena." That was the history of Geraldine Edwards, not DeBarres and Buell. In addition to that, Cameron Crowe cited Geraldine's name as the inspiration for Penny Lane in an 2000 interview.


Is it true that geraldine Edwards the late Robert palmers girlfriend and the woman almost famous was written about helped mix the sound on the winter bros Frankenstein live?

According to Rodney Bingenheimer's interview with Geraldine Edwards which took place in 1975, that is true. Geraldine Edwards met the legendary Shelley Yakus, who is hands down the must famous record producer in the world, and who owned the Record Plant at the time, in 1974, backstage at the San Diego Sports Arena. She was seventeen years old at the time. Shelley Yakus took a shine to her, and told her that he was going to be recording "Frankenstein Live" that night for the Winters Brothers and that Rick Derringer was going to be onstage helping them out. He asked her if she would like to help him in doing this, and she said yes. What she actually did on the recording was monitor Danny Hartman's base levels and label the tape boxes, but she enjoyed the experience, saying that she now had a "new respect for sound men who worked at live performances. Mixing a live show requires serious skill and talent." Geraldine and Shelley Yakus, who was John Lennon's sound producer and worked with a who's who of superstars, remained friends. Geraldine Edwards was given credit on the first thousand copies of Frankenstien Live released in 1975, listed as a "production assistant" as a gift from Shelley Yakus.


Did Geraldine Edwards the rock muse ever meet Jimmy Page who was very interested in her grandfather Aleister Crowley?

I was friendly with Geraldine Edwards back in the seventies and attended a few concerts with her. Eventually most groupies mature and move on to a different lifestyle as I did, but we sure still remember some of our high-spirited antics from our teens and distant past. In Almost Famous Penny Lane aka Geraldine Edwards refers to groupies as "band-aids." Geraldine and her group, of which I was one, more often referred to ourselves as "the ladies." We were fully aware that the world saw us as groupies, but the way Geraldine and her group of ladies saw it, we were availing ourselves of a once-in-a-lifetime golden opportunity few young women would have turned down. Sure, we were there to meet musicians we were interested in, but we were also there for the aggregete experience which encompassed a rather large range. Geraldine and her group sometimes referred to themselves, myself included, as groupies but we always qualified how we interpreted the meaning. More often we did refer to ourselves as the ladies. We felt we had a standard to uphold and did our best, considering the incredible circumstances. Now that I've attached my C.V., I will answer the question asked. Yes, Geraldine Edwards did meet Jimmy Page, in 1974, when she was seventeen years old. I and two other friends went back stage with Geraldine to a Led Zepplin concert taking place at the then San Diego Sports Arena. We managed to meet the entire band, two of our group having met them on a previous occasion. I do recall that Jimmy Page was very friendly to Geraldine as was Robert Plant. I must say here that although Geraldine's great-grandfather Aleister Crowley was a popular cult figure and icon to many musicians, not only Jimmy Page, Geraldine did not use her relationship with him as a calling card. The woman always operated on her own merits as she is still doing today. Only her close friends knew of the relationship. Although people have heard horror stories about Led Zepplin and their behavior on the road, the stories are highly overated. From what I recall, they behaved a lot better than many musicians did that visited San Diego. I spent most of my time that evening with John Bonham and Geraldine split her time between Jimmy Page and Robert Plant. Robert Plant was very interested in Geraldine and she enjoyed talking to him, but when he told her their plane was given permission to depart Brown Field, and told her to get ready to go with him, she demurred. He was a tiny bit upset, and did ask her why she was going backstage in the first place if she did not want to date musicians. She politely told him that she went backstage for the excitement, the music, and the experience. She honestly told him too that if she felt there was a connection between herself and a musician she met that she would date them. She was not trying to come off as an innocent, because she was not. None of us were. But to clairify, a lot of people think that any groupie was available to any musician. Not true. We picked who we were interested in like any other woman would. Robert Plant respected Geraldine for what she had said, and apologized for the outburst, even lending her his limosuine to take her home in style. It was actually cute. Robert Plant kissed Geraldine on the forhead, which was visually amusing. Robert Plant is 6'4 and Geraldine is 5'4. Then he told her to "stay out of trouble." Quite a few people got a chuckle out of that. That evening, I went to Los Angeles with John Bonham. I never regretted those years. Geraldine did meet Jimmy Page though, and I recall her telling me that she found him to be both intelligent, well-mannered, and open-minded, and that she enjoyed their meeting.


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Does Geraldine Edwards the groupie Almost Famous was based on and Robert Palmers fiancee have a facebook or social networking site I can write to her at as I want to create a website on her?

No, she does not.


Who is the nude model on the album cover Pressure Drop?

That is Geraldine Edwards, the rock groupie who was one of the two women the Penny Lane character was based on in Almost Famous. The picture was taken in 1975 when she was eighteen years old. A year later, Playboy offered her an opportunity to appear in their magazine and she turned them down.


Did Kate Hudson who played Penny Lane in Almost Famous ever meet Geraldine Edwards who Almost Famous was written about?

Yes, the two did meet in San Diego, California. Edwards had agreed to meet with Hudson at her request. Hudson wanted additional background for her character and also later said in interviews that she was curious about Edwards as well. Hudson later told more than one reporter that Geraldine Edwards was a very kind and intelligent person.


Was geraldine Edwards Robert palmers girlfriend and the woman who dated Eric clapton rick springfield roger daltry and others the woman almost famous was written about?

Yes she was. Geraldine Edwards met Cameron Crowe in San Diego, California, in 1975 backstage at the San Diego Sports Arena. At the time Cameron Crowe was interested in being a Sports Writer and was a fan of the San Diego Gulls. Geraldine suggested that he widen his range and interview all types of people, including musicians. He took her advice and found that he actually preferred interviewing musicians. It was written in some articles that Pam DeBarres and Bebe Buell were partial inspirations for the Penny Lane character. That is not correct. Penny Lane was eighteen years old and a San Diegan who was a groupie who hung around the "World Famous San Diego Sports Arena." That was the history of Geraldine Edwards, not DeBarres and Buell. In addition to that, Cameron Crowe cited Geraldine's name as the inspiration for Penny Lane in an 2000 interview.


Does Geraldine Edwards the rock muse who was engaged to Robert Palmer and one of the inspirations for Almost Famous have a Facebook account that I can write to and what name what it be under?

I am friends with Geraldine Edwards' niece who works for her aunt at her law firm in Los Angeles as an attorney. No, Geraldine Edwards does not have a Facebook account under any of her names, which would be Geraldine Edwards, Geraldine Angel Edwards or Geraldine Flemming-Mueller, if you were looking. She does now go by her married name, which is Geraldine Flemming-Mueller, in general, as she has been married since February of 2006 to her husband and business partner, Anthony Flemming-Mueller. She does not think there is anything wrong with having a Facebook account, she would simply prefer not to have one. She stays in contact with her friends and family the old-fashioned way, by phone, e-mail, texting, and writing letters. According to her niece, she prefers the personal touch, in addition to which she prefers to maintain her anonymity. She is a fan of technology and has said that she thinks that Facebook is a great social media and business tool, if used correctly, but it is just not for her.


What is the middle name birthday and place of birth of Geraldine Edwards the rock muse Almost Famous was based on?

Geraldine Edwards, the rock muse, was born Geraldine Angel Edwards on June 13, 1957 in Los Angeles County. On a couple of occasions people wrote that she was born in San Diego because she was raised there. She was born in Los Angeles in 1957 and her family moved to San Diego when she was six years old. She has been married since 2006 to her husband, Anthony Flemming-Mueller, who she had been dating since 2004, and is a successful businesswoman who resides in Los Angeles where she has been living since 2005.


Is it true that Geraldine Edwards the rock muse Almost Famous was based on dated Sir Anthony Hopkins?

Geraldine Edwards, who is now in her fifties and happily married, did date a who's who of celebrities, most of them in the music industry. In the eighties, when she was twenty-six years old and Anthony Hopkins was forty-five years old, the two did date. They were both quiet about the relationship at the time as Hopkins was married and neither wanted a scandal. Later on, when a friend asked Geraldine Edwards what her impressions of Hopkins were she told him that Hopkins was a wonderful person, a gentleman, and a creative genius. She went on to say that the time she spent with him was time well spent.


What is Robert Palmers fiancee Geraldine Edwards doing now and does she still go backstage?

Geraldine Edwards is happily married to her husband since 2006, Anthony Flemming-Mueller. They operate a law practice together. Geraldine is a legal administrator and the holder of a LLM, in addition to a MBA, MPS and a PhD in Business Administration. Her husband is a JD and a MD. The both of them also own their own small businesses. They are very busy people. Their firm donates their time pro bono to charities and human rights organizations as well as operating their firm for profit. Although Geraldine and her husband are known to be very social, she no longer goes backstage to concerts, although she has remained in contact with some of her famous friends from her past. Geraldine Edwards is one of the two inspirations for Penny Lane in Almost Famous, the other woman being Bebe Buell. Geraldine Edwards and her husband now live in Los Angeles, with homes in New York, England, and Lake Como.


Who played super-groupie Penny Lane in Almost Famous?

Kate Hudson


Is that a true event when penny lane overdoses at the end of almost famous when russells girlfriend was in town And if so who is that about?

No, it is not a true event. It was included in the screenplay by Cameron Crowe to add dramatic impact to the film. The Penny Lane character was based on two women: Bebe Buell and Geraldine Edwards, who were both well-known groupies in the seventies. Neither of them overdosed in real life.


Is Geraldine Edwards the rock groupie Almost Famous was based on and the late Robert Palmer's fiancee an attorney?

No, she is not. I am a friend of her oldest nephew, who is forty years old, by the way. Although I will not mention his name, he works as an Associate Attorney at the law firm Geraldine Edwards and her husband, Anthony Flemming-Mueller own and operate. Also not to be critical, but Geraldine Edwards does use her married name, which is Geraldine Flemming-Mueller, and has since her 2006 marriage to her husband. Geraldine Flemming-Mueller is an Legal Administrator, holding an LLM in the field. She is also the holder of an BPS, MPS, BBA, MBA and is a Ph.D in Business Administration. A Legal Administrator is the person who is responsible for the day-to-day operations of a law firm, inclusive of the administrative staff as well as the legal staff. A LLM is technically interpreted as a Bachelors of Legal Management, and is only one step below a J.D. or Bachelor of Law. Geraldine Flemming-Mueller's nephew has said his Aunt is distinguished as valuing knowledge and education over flash-in-the-pan activities and impressive jewlery and wardrobes. According to him, she has set a different standard, one he and his family respect. She uses a lot of her business acumen and background to chair chairitable institutions and is a Trustee who is attached to more than one foundation put in place by a testamentary trust. Beyond that, he describes his Aunt as a very good person who has an excellent sense of humor. But she is not an attorney.


What is the meaning of the name geraldine?

Geraldine means "spear ruler" or "brave warrior", and is of Old German and French origin.Rather like (Roberta) it is a feminization of the Masculine name Gerald, like President Gerald Ford. a Rather famous Geraldine was Geraldine Farrar, the opera star and also silent movie actress ( Joan, the Woman) (Loves of Carmen) In reference to the Opera star fans would sometimes slang-like pronounce her name(Jahl-deen!) almost with an assumed UK-Boston twang. It almost sounded like Jardine (rhymes with sardine) which is a surname (last Name) so it goes. Geraldine was also a transvestite character performed by the late Flip Wilson.