The album was produced by Bebe's husband James Wallerstein of the critically acclaimed proto-grunge band Das Damen, and Stephen DeAcutis. In September 2011, Buell released Hard Love, an aggressive rock album influenced by grunge and glam rock. Buell is playing a series of live shows in the New York City area to promote the single. It can be downloaded on iTunes or Amazon MP3. She released her first recording in ten years with a single 'Air Kisses for the Masses' in May 2009 and completed recording of a full-length 12-song album, set for late Fall 2009. She also performed around New York with the Bebe Buell Band and, later, with Boston musicians the Rudds and the Neighborhoods' drummer Johnny Lynch to form a new band for a few shows which also included husband Jim Wallerstein. She also represented actress Charis Michelsen.Īfter Buell's daughter left home in 1997, Buell returned to music to record a solo effort with producer Don Fleming, released in 2000. Buell managed her daughter Liv, helping to launch her career as a successful international model and actress. She withdrew from performing for six years in the 1990s. A few large record companies were showing interest, but they disbanded when the paternity of her daughter Liv became publicly known in 1991. She founded another band called the Gargoyles in 1985, and released a couple of singles. She also formed the band the B-Sides in 1980 but they 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. In describing her early years and modeling career, Buell stated: ' 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 Modelingīuell 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.

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