Arkansas rock and roll super star, Connie Hamzy has died after a brief illness . Immortalized as a rock groupie in the 1973 number 1 hit “We’re an American Band” by Grand Funk Railroad, “Sweet Sweet Connie” Hamzy has died at 66. Rock on, Connie, rock on. Hamzy was the subject in the opening verses of Grand Funk Railroad’s hit, “We’re An American Band,” which spent 17 weeks on the Billboard Hot 100 and reached No. 1 on Sept. 29, 1973. “Out on the road for 40 days/Last night in Little Rock put me in a haze. ”Sweet, sweet Connie, doin’ her act/She had the whole show and that’s a natural fact,” sang drummer Don Brewer, who also wrote the song. “I was determined to become a famous groupie,” Hamzy told KTHV in 2019. Action News reported It is often said that celebrity deaths come in threes and the last few days has produced as disparate a trio as possible. Don Everly lived a long and celebrated life and passing at 84, we should celebrate him and his contributions to music history. I jus...
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