Which you did in order to model when you were 18?Д®ileen Ford had seen a picture of me when I was a lot younger, but she wanted me to finish high school. The whole British invasion sort of changed my life. IвЂ™m a Stones girl, but it was as soon as I saw the Beatles on the Ed Sullivan show. When did you start being into rock and roll? You grew up in Virginia, right? I am like one of those G.E dishwashers with the twenty-year guarantee. I am a rock-and-roll machine and I donвЂ™t have an expiration date. But the person that I really am is a rock monster. I have been a model, I did Playboy when I was a youngster. I start off the album with вЂњMother of Rock & Roll,вЂќ which is a play on being called вЂњmother of Liv, mother of this, girlfriend of that.вЂќ One day I was walking down the street in a narcissistic lead singer moment and I went вЂњrock and roll, I am the mother of rock and roll.вЂќ Before I knew it, I had turned into a peacock! And so I called my guitar player and I went, вЂњOkay, thatвЂ™s the next song.вЂќ It is a really personal, autobiographical record. ItвЂ™s important to me that people listen to it youвЂ™ll understand me a little better. And if youвЂ™re tripping on good acid and you see that, youвЂ™ll never touch meat again. Back in those days, there were cows going by on hooks. Believe me, I became a vegetarian from being a teenager in the meatpacking district. But I tried psychedelics and I smoked weed. Well, I didnвЂ™t take a lot of drugs, like everyone else. You seem to remember all the dates and circumstances from your youth.

These are the outtakes, including her very strong opinions on Dina Lohan and Courtney Love, why she has a right to rock until old age, and bikini waxing. Jada Yuan spoke to Buell for a magazine piece. (Buell had kept it secret from Liv throughout her childhood, until her dad was sober.) Now sheвЂ™s about to release her first big-deal album, Hard Love face-melting New YorkвЂ“area gigs are soon to follow: the Stone Pony in Asbury Park on October 8, Hiro Ballroom on October 12, and Irving Plaza on December 15. 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. In 1991, her next band, the harder-edged group the Gargoyles, was offered a six-figure record deal. In 1984, John Taylor of Duran Duran formed the supergroup Power Station around her eventually, Robert Palmer took her place. Keith Richards encouraged her to start her own band, as did good friend Ric Ocasek, who in 1980 sent her into the studio backed by the Cars later, Bebe Buell and the B-Sides opened for Alice Cooper. But Buell didnвЂ™t just hang out with rockers she is one, too - sheвЂ™s been trying for over 30 years to get her singing career off the ground, with a deep, raspy growl that she put to use in high-school choir and hotel-room sing-alongs.

The partial inspiration for Penny Lane in Cameron CroweвЂ™s Almost Famous, Buell spent her seventies youth befriending or bedding a whoвЂ™s who of legendary musicians, from Mick Jagger and David Bowie to Elvis Costello and (obviously) Steven Tyler, all of which she chronicled in her best-selling autobiography, Rebel Heart: An American Rock nвЂ™ Roll Journey. Spending two and a half hours at the Morrison Hotel Gallery and walking around downtown Manhattan with Bebe Buell, the former model and Liv TylerвЂ™s 58-year-old mom, is like getting a crash course in rock and roll.

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