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Take, for example, her contention about “Little Red Corvette”: she believed that Prince wrote it about her, despite never having met her, and that he is actually singing “Bebe you’re much too fast.” (And Costello’s carefully crafted comment was not actually a denial of her influence on his life and music, although it certainly was intended to give that impression.) For all that, Buell has seemed overeager to find any trace of her influence, to validate herself as muse rather than groupie. Buell dismissed Costello’s liner notes as more psychological gamesmanship. Although she’s written about Costello using her life for inspiration in that period, and on the Get Happy! and Blood and Chocolate albums in particular, she seemed perfectly sane about where her influence upon him began and ended. It is a tragic delusion about which I wish I could say: ‘I shall not dignify that with a response’ but ‘dignity’ doesn’t come into this story.”īuell called me up to object that she’d never claimed to be the inspiration for the songs on Armed Forces-which appears to be true. This was also said about the previous release–a chronological impossibility–and many of my other compositions to this day.
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She’d later claim to have inspired most of the songs on this record–all of which were already written when we met. But deep down he knows the truth.”Ĭostello, for his part, addressed Buell, although not by name, on the liner notes to a reissue of Armed Forces: “She turned up with eight pieces of luggage like a mail-order bride and moved in. He wants people to think I’m crazy it delights him. He writes these lyrics because he knows I will see them, but he also knows that if I try to express this to people, they will think I am nuts. Buell summarized: “It’s scary what Elvis does. She said he was the love of her life, and saw their relationship as being a pervasive inspiration for Costello’s work, down to the title of Blood and Chocolate (from her habit of demanding a candy bar whenever she got her period). “ Apres moi, le deluge.” Buell was close enough to the Rolling Stones to report in her deliciously trashy autobiography Rebel Heart that Keith Richards was the best-endowed member of the group and that Jagger objected to her liaison with Steven Tyler, telling her, “Why do you want the fake Mick when you’ve got the real one?”īuell certainly had an intense affair with Costello as she described it, it lasted from 1978 to 1979, then again from 1982 to 1985, and ended when she aborted their child. “At the time, relations between models and rock stars were rare,” she mused. These days, many people just know Bebe Buell as the mother of Liv Tyler, but in the ’70s, she was a model and Playboy centerfold who had romantic liaisons with just about every major figure in rock, including Steven Tyler, Todd Rundgren, Iggy Pop, David Bowie, Mick Jagger, Jimmy Page, and Rod Stewart. “I became like a band member whose instrument was.(You should know that I manage to stick the Beatles into everything I do, it's a gift really).
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Currently Bebe is the singer in a band, ob-la-di, ob-la-da. She was just 17, you know what I mean, when she caught the eye of Todd Rundgren and thus began her rock and roll life. Anyroad, besides being arm-candy for 70's rockers, Bebe also had a career as a model back when she was 'god-head'. Now, if you want to sleep with them, well, that's up to you, er, them? Whatever. I mean who doesn't want to hang out with musicians? Because that's what groupies do, that's the original meaning for it anyway. Most of the people I know would be groupies too, don't deny it. Although once a Vogue model (that is until she posed for Playboy in 1974), Bebe Buell is best known for her dalliances with rock stars including Mick Jagger and Jimmy Page, who she. Model turned 'band aide' turned singer, Bebe Buell has seen it all. Buell certainly had an intense affair with Costello as she described it, it lasted from 1978 to 1979, then again from 1982 to 1985, and ended when she aborted. But as far as I'm concerned, if your list of musician lovers is more than 3, then my dear, you are a GROUPIE. Bebe Buell on groupies, fake boobs, God and sacrifice. (Elvis said most of the songs on the album were already written before she came along, and I tend to believe him). Bebe Buell is probably the most gorgeous of all groupies, although she says she prefers the term 'muse.' Now, I'm not quite sure what songs she has inspired, besides Chester French's "Bebe Buell" and those Elvis Costello songs on Armed Forces she claims to have been the inspiration for.