Bebe buell biography book

American model and singer

Beverle Lorence "Bebe" Buell (BEE-bee BYUUL; born July 14, ) is an American singer and former model. She was Playboy magazine's November Playmate of the Month. Buell moved to New York in after signing a modeling contract with Eileen Ford, and garnered notability after her publicized relationship with musician Todd Rundgren from until , as well as her liaisons with several rock musicians during that time and over the following four decades.

She is the mother of actress Liv Tyler (born ), whose biological father is Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler. Todd Rundgren is Liv's legally adoptive father.

In Buell published her autobiography with St. Martin's Press (with Victor Bockris), Rebel Heart: An American Rock and Roll Journey. The book was a New York Times bestseller.

The paperback was issued in

Early life

Buell was born in Portsmouth, Virginia, the daughter of Dorothea (Brown) Johnson, who founded the Protocol School of Washington, and Harold Lloyd Buell, a U.S. Navy officer and World War II veteran.^[2][3] As her father was not at home at the time of Buell's birth, her mother waited until he got back before naming her daughter.

The nurses in the hospital took to calling her "Baby Buell," which is where her nickname of "Bebe" originated.^[4] She is of German descent.^[5][6]

Career

Modeling

Buell was discovered by modeling agency executive Eileen Ford after high school graduation at age 17,^[7] and relocated to New York City at age ^[8] She was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for the November 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."^[9]

Music

In 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.^[1] The rock band the Power Station began in 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 ; it disbanded in

In Buell started another band, The Gargoyles, and released a couple of singles.

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A few large record companies showed interest, but the Gargoyles disbanded when Liv Tyler's paternity became public in Buell withdrew from performing for six years in the s. She managed Liv's career as an international model and actress. She also represented actress Charis Michelsen.

After Liv left home in , Buell recorded a solo effort with producer Don Fleming, released in 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 Buell released her first recording in ten years, the single "Air Kisses for the Masses". She then recorded a 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 Buell released Hard Love, an aggressive rock album influenced by grunge and glam rock.^[10] It was produced by Wallerstein and Stephen DeAcutis.

The 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.

Personal life

Buell has dated many musicians, beginning with Paul Cowsill of the Cowsills when she was ^[11] She has dated Mick Jagger, Iggy Pop, David Bowie, Elvis Costello, Todd Rundgren, Jimmy Page, Duran Duran's John Taylor,^[12] and Steven Tyler among others, but she rejects the label "groupie".^[13][14]

From to , Bebe Buell had a longterm, on and off, relationship with Todd Rundgren.

In , Buell became unexpectedly pregnant from a brief relationship with Steven Tyler.

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On July 1, , Buell gave birth to future actress/model Liv Tyler, but Buell initially named her child Liv Rundgren and claimed that Todd Rundgren was the biological father to protect the child from Tyler's drug addiction. Rundgren and Buell ended their romantic relationship shortly after Liv's birth. At age 9, Liv found out that she was Steven Tyler's biological daughter.^[15][16][17]

In , Buell married for the first time.

She wed sometime-musician and actor Coyote Shivers.^[1] They divorced in after a year-long separation.^[18] In , she married musician Jim Wallerstein^[13] (aka Jim Walters) of Das Damen.

For his film Almost Famous, music journalist and filmmaker Cameron Crowe developed the "band-aid" character Penny Lane as a composite of a handful of girls he saw backstage in the late s and early s at concerts calling themselves the "Flying Garter Girls".

One girl who went by the nickname Penny Lane is real-life Pennie Lane Trumbull, born in Portland, Oregon, in ^[19] Though they were not in the Flying Garter Girls group, various other women have been described as Crowe's inspiration, for instance Pamela Des Barres^[20] and Buell. Buell partially inspired Crowe; he named a lead singer character Jeff Bebe.^[21]

Buell lived in New York and New Jersey^[9] before relocating to Nashville, Tennessee, in ^[22]

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