Sex, Drugs And The Starship

How this tricked-out Boeing jumbo became the most famous plane in rock ‘n’ roll history.

- Jaclyn Trop

DECADES BEFORE OASIS famously helicoptered onto the field at Knebworth and long before the Gulfstream G5 became the most name-checked jet in hip-hop, there was The Starship, the decadently tricked-out, constantly re-liveried Boeing 720 jumbo jet that acted as a flying tour bus for some of the biggest bands of the mid-1970s, including Led Zeppelin, the Rolling Stones, Elton John, the Bee Gees, Alice Cooper and Peter Frampton.