In 1991, her next band, the harder-edged group the Gargoyles, was offered a six-figure record deal.

She turned it down to stay home and raise Liv, who was starting high school, beginning a modeling career, and watching the public discover who her father was. (Buell had kept it secret from Liv throughout her childhood, until her dad was sober.) “People thought I was crazy,” she says.

“But I made a choice that I needed to be a really good mom. She said, ‘If you mess up with your children, what’s the point?’ I’m just going to say it bluntly: I’m not Courtney Love. I want to kick people’s asses that don’t put their kids first. They suck.”īuell’s favorite song off the new album is “Mother of Rock & Roll,” a name that plays off the perception that for so many years, she’s just been “mother of Liv, girlfriend of that,” as she puts it. ĭishwashers with a twenty-year guarantee.Bebe Buell and Michael Schmidt in a selfie in July 2019 (Michael Schmidt / Instagram) Distinctive Featuresīebe Buell in an Instagram post as seen in August 2019 (Bebe Buell / Instagram) Bebe Buell Facts I am a rock-and-roll machine, and I don’t have an expiration date. In 2001, she wrote an autobiography with Victor Bockris called Rebel Heart: An American Rock and Roll Journey which turned out to be a success and was a New York Times bestseller.īuell became Playboy magazine’s “Playmate of the Month” for the November 1974 issue during which her centerfold was photographed by Playboy professional photographer, Richard Fegley.In 1980, she formed the band B-Sides but it disbanded in 1985.Ī paperback of the book was released in 2002.

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