Bebe Buell

At 70 years old, Bebe Buell has this physical status:

Beverle Lorence "Bebe" Buell (born July 14, 1953) is an American singer and former fashion model.

She was the month's Playmate of the Month by Playboy magazine in November 1974.

Buell began moving to New York in 1972 after signing a modeling deal with Eileen Ford, gaining notoriety for her publicized friendship with musician Todd Rundgren from 1972 to 1978, as well as her friendships with many rock singers over the next four decades.

Liv Tyler, who gave birth to in 1977, is the mother of Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler, whose father was born in 1977.

Buell's Autobiography was released in 2001 by St. Martin's Press (with Victor Bockris), entitled Rebel Heart: An American Rock and Roll Journey.

The book was a New York Times bestseller.

In 2002, the paperback was first published.

Early life

Buell was born in Portsmouth, Virginia, the niece of Dorothea (Brown) Johnson, who founded the Protocol School of Washington, and Harold Lloyd Buell, a US Navy officer and World War II soldier. Since her father was not home at the time of Buell's birth, her mother waited until he recovered before naming her daughter. The nurses in the hospital started calling her "Baby Buell," which is where her nickname of "Bebe" came from. She is of German descent.

Personal life

Buell has dated many artists, beginning with Paul Cowsill of the Cowsills when she was 15. She has dated Mick Jagger, Iggy Pop, David Bowie, Elvis Costello, Todd Rundgren, Jimmy Page, Duran Duran Duran's John Taylor, and Steven Tyler, among others, but she refuses to use the term "groupie."

Bebe Buell had a long-term, on and off friendship with Todd Rundgren from 1972 to 1978. Buell became suddenly pregnant after a brief friendship with Steven Tyler in 1976. Buell gave birth to Liv Tyler, a teenage actress and singer, on July 1, 1977, but Buell later claimed that Todd Rundgren was the biological father to shield the child from Tyler's heroin use. Rundgren and Buell's intimate relationship came right after Liv's birth. Liv discovered she was Steven Tyler's biological daughter at age 9.

Buell married for the first time in 1992. Coyote Shivers, a sometime-musician and actress, appeared on stage. After a year of separation, the couple divorced in 1999. Jim Wallerstein, aka Jim Walters), of Das Damen, married her in 2002.

Cameron Crowe developed the "band-aid" character Penny Lane as a composite of a handful of girls he saw backstage in the late 1960s and early 1970s at concerts, naming them "Flying Garter Girls" in his film Almost Famous, music journalist, and filmmaker Cameron Crowe's "unique "band-aid" in his film Almost Famous, music journalist, and filmmaker Cameron Crowe developed the "band-aid" style. Pennie Lane Trumbull, a girl who went by the name Penny Lane, was born in Portland, Oregon, in 1954. Despite being outside of Crowe's group, several other women have been praised as Crowe's inspiration, such as Pamela Des Barres and Buell. Buell partially inspired Crowe; he introduced Jeff Bebe, a lead singer.

Buell lived in New York and New Jersey before relocating to Nashville, Tennessee, in 2013.

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Career

Buell was discovered by modeling agency executive Eileen Ford after high school graduation at age 17, and relocated to New York City at age 18. She was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for the November 1974 issue; her centerfold was photographed by Richard Fegley. Describing her early years and modeling career, Buell said, "[I wanted] to be a professional singer [which was why] I came to New York—yes, I was a pretty young girl, so I fell into the modeling thing, and [then] I did Playboy, so then the rock stars came a-hunting, as I like to say."

In 1981 Buell recorded a four-song EP on Rhino Records, produced by Rick Derringer and Ric Ocasek, with the Cars serving as her band on two tracks. The rock band the Power Station began in 1984 when her then-boyfriend John Taylor (of Duran Duran fame) pulled some famous friends together to provide backing for another of Buell's musical efforts. She also formed the band the B-Sides in 1980; it disbanded in 1985.

In 1985 Buell started another band, The Gargoyles, and released a couple of singles. A few large record companies showed interest, but the Gargoyles disbanded when Liv Tyler's paternity became public in 1991. Buell withdrew from performing for six years in the 1990s. She managed Liv's career as an international model and actress. She also represented actress Charis Michelsen.

After Liv left home in 1997, Buell recorded a solo effort with producer Don Fleming, released in 2000. She also performed around New York with the Bebe Buell Band and later with Boston musicians The Rudds and the Neighborhoods' drummer Johnny Lynch, forming a new band for a few shows that also included her husband, James Wallerstein.

In May 2009 Buell released her first recording in ten years, the single "Air Kisses for the Masses". She then recorded a 12-song album that can be downloaded on iTunes or Amazon MP3. Buell played a series of live shows in the New York City area to promote the single.

In September 2011 Buell released Hard Love, an aggressive rock album influenced by grunge and glam rock. It was produced by Wallerstein and Stephen DeAcutis. The 11-track record features original songs alongside covers of Gang of Four's "I Love a Man in Uniform" and "Baby Baby" by the English punk rock band the Vibrators.

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