“Lemmy Gave Me Lice!”

Renée Berg, aka Miss Renée, remembers the magic of dancing with Hawkwind.

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“I grew up in the San Francisco Bay area and I knew everybody in the local scene because I worked at [community promoter] the Family Dog. People started asking me to dance for them. So I approached Jerry Garcia and said, ‘Can I dance onstage with the Grateful Dead?’ And he said, ‘Sure, just don’t cross the lines of energy.’ “A friend had a free ticket to London, and I ended up busking under the flyover near Portobello Road. A guy who worked for a London paper saw me dancing and wrote an article, which somebody from United Artists read. I then got a telegram from Doug Smith about auditioning for Hawkwind. They saw me dancing for about three minutes and hired me on the spot. They were very surprised…

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