įrom 1972 to 1978, Bebe Buell had a longterm, on and off, relationship with Todd Rundgren. She has dated Mick Jagger, Iggy Pop, David Bowie, Elvis Costello, Todd Rundgren, Jimmy Page, and Steven Tyler, but she rejects the label " groupie". 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.īuell has dated many musicians, beginning with Paul Cowsill of the Cowsills when she was 15. It was produced by Wallerstein and Stephen DeAcutis.
In September 2011 Buell released Hard Love, an aggressive rock album influenced by grunge and glam rock.
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Buell played a series of live shows in the New York City area to promote the single. She then recorded a 12-song album that can be downloaded on iTunes or Amazon MP3. In May 2009 Buell released her first recording in ten years, the single "Air Kisses for the Masses". 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. She also represented actress Charis Michelsen.Īfter Liv left home in 1997, Buell recorded a solo effort with producer Don Fleming, released in 2000. She managed Liv's career as an international model and actress. Buell withdrew from performing for six years in the 1990s. A few large record companies showed interest, but the Gargoyles disbanded when Liv Tyler's paternity became public in 1991. In 1985 Buell started another band, The Gargoyles, and released a couple of singles. She also formed the band the B-Sides in 1980 it disbanded in 1985. 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. 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.
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Describing her early years and modeling career, Buell said, " to be a professional singer I came to New York-yes, I was a pretty young girl, so I fell into the modeling thing, and I did Playboy, so then the rock stars came a-hunting, as I like to say." Music She was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for the November 1974 issue her centerfold was photographed by Richard Fegley.
Career Modeling īuell was discovered by modeling agency executive Eileen Ford after high school graduation at age 17, and relocated to New York City at age 18. The nurses in the hospital took to calling her "Baby Buell," which is where her nickname of "Bebe" originated. 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. 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.
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