The first time we knew about Bebe Buell was as Liv's Tyler mum, instead of someone's wife/girlfriend. We built a website at piczo platform for some actresses we loved (Drew Barrymore, Jane Asher, Shannen Doherty, Kate Winslett, Liv Tyler...), and looking for some Liv Tyler pics, I found this photo set:
[1980 baby Liv and mum Bebe Buell by Marcia Resnick, NYC]
Now, Liv wasn't a child actress like Shannen or Drew, so the famous was her beautiful mum! So we started googling about gorgeous Bebe, and we learnt that she was a very successful model in the 1970s and also had been posing for Playboy magazine.
[Bebe pictured by Lynn Goldsmith in 1973, our scan]
[May 1974 for a Playboy's lingerie article]
[Covergirl: modelling for he British "Girl About Town" magazine, in 1976]
Bebe has a very interesting life. Besides being a very beautiful model, Bebe was also friend of many rock stars, girlfriend and muse to some of them, and was in the American rock/punk scene in the 1970s and 1980s. Todd Rundgren, Jimmy Page, Steven Tyler or Elvis Costello were some of her lovers; Patti Smith, Alice Cooper, Liz and Dick Derringer, Debbie Harry, John Lennon and Joey Ramone were and are some of her friends.
[Bebe and Todd in 1972, by Stephen Anderson, scan by Leith from (Diet) Coke and Sympathy blogspot]
[The Creem Dream! Bebe by Richard Creamer for "Creem" magazine in 1980]
[1979 - Bebe modelling, by Lynn Goldsmith]
[Bebe in 1985 by Bob Gruen]
Bebe was a model and a muse, but she is also a rock musician and an author. She is a very spiritual woman and a vegetarian, so she respects animals and nature, beliefs in cosmic energy, UFOs and after-life once we die here. She knows about history and literature too, being a very intelligent woman.
[Bebe in 2001 when she published her first book, Rebel Heart]
Like all the other muses, we built both a website and a yahoo group for her, and on Facebook we were friends with her and shared many photos and memories (until Facebook didn't allow us to be there under the "Little Queenies" name and were forced to delete it...).
[Beautiful Bebe in 2003 at her daughter Liv's wedding]
Our dream, of course, is attending to one of her concerts or even get one of her two books (or both!) signed in person by her. To meet her either in Europe (London probably) or the States (more difficult but who knows!). We are full of joy to know and be aware that she knows about us!
Today, for her birthday, we wanted to share with all of you, dear followers, how we knew about Bebe and what made us love her.
OUR BIOGRAPHY OF HER, WITH LINKS TO AMAZING SITES
HAPPY BIRTHDAY DEAR ROCK STAR!
