1. Beverle Lorence "Bebe" Buell is an American singer and former model.
22 Facts About Bebe Buell
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Bebe Buell was Playboy magazine's November 1974 Playmate of the Month.
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In 2001 Bebe Buell published her autobiography with St Martin's Press, Rebel Heart: An American Rock and Roll Journey.
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Bebe Buell was born in Portsmouth, Virginia, the daughter of Dorothea Johnson, who founded the Protocol School of Washington, and Harold Lloyd Bebe Buell, a US Navy officer and World War II veteran.
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Bebe 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.
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Bebe Buell was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for the November 1974 issue; her centerfold was photographed by Richard Fegley.
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In 1981 Bebe 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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Bebe Buell formed the band the B-Sides in 1980; it disbanded in 1985.
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In 1985 Bebe Buell started another band, The Gargoyles, and released a couple of singles.
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Bebe Buell withdrew from performing for six years in the 1990s.
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Bebe Buell managed Liv's career as an international model and actress.
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Bebe Buell 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 included her husband, James Wallerstein.
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In May 2009 Bebe Buell released her first recording in ten years, the single "Air Kisses for the Masses".
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Bebe Buell then recorded a 12-song album that can be downloaded on iTunes or Amazon MP3.
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Bebe Buell played a series of live shows in the New York City area to promote the single.
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In September 2011 Bebe Buell released Hard Love, an aggressive rock album influenced by grunge and glam rock.
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Bebe Buell has dated many musicians, beginning with Paul Cowsill of the Cowsills when she was 15.
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Bebe Buell has dated Mick Jagger, Iggy Pop, David Bowie, Elvis Costello, Todd Rundgren, Jimmy Page, Duran Duran's John Taylor, and Steven Tyler among others, but she rejects the label "groupie".
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From 1972 to 1978, Bebe Buell had a longterm, on and off, relationship with Todd Rundgren.
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In 1976, Bebe Buell became unexpectedly pregnant from a brief relationship with Steven Tyler.
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Rundgren and Bebe Buell ended their romantic relationship shortly after Liv's birth.
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Bebe Buell lived in New York and New Jersey before relocating to Nashville, Tennessee, in 2013.