The group issued an EP in 1981, Cover Girl, which featured contributions by the likes of Rick Derringer and the Cars' Ben Orr and Ric Ocasek (the latter two of whom guested on readings of Iggy Pop's "Funtime" and the obscurity "Little Black Egg," both of which would turn up years later with Orr's vocals replacing Buell's on 1995's Just What I Needed: The Cars Anthology). But Rundgren and Buell's relationship eventually ended for good, which Rundgren documented in his 1978 hit single, "Can We Still Be Friends?" Having been around the rock & roll scene for a long time by then, it was only natural that Buell would eventually put together her own band, as 1980 saw the formation of the B-Sides. Despite Rundgren knowing that he wasn't the father, the pair reconciled and Rundgren supported the baby (it later became known that Liv thought Rundgren was her father until the '80s, when a by-then clean and sober Tyler re-entered the picture). But the brief fling resulted in Buell giving birth to daughter Liv in 1977. Buell also had a whirlwind romance with Aerosmith's Steven Tyler during 1976 - which ended when Buell was alarmed by Tyler's drug abuse. Besides Rundgren, Buell subsequently dated some of rock's biggest names - Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page, Iggy Pop, Rod Stewart, the Dead Boys' Stiv Bators, and Elvis Costello. The plan worked, as Buell became a Playboy Playmate in 1974. It was through Rundgren that Buell met rock photographer Lynn Goldsmith, who convinced the model to take some test photos for Playboy magazine.
Shortly thereafter, Buell began a relationship with Todd Rundgren, who had just begun one of the most commercially successful periods of his career. Buell's mother encouraged her daughter to pursue a career in modeling, and when she was 18 years old, she relocated to New York City and began a career as a Ford model. Born on July 14, 1953, and raised in Virginia, Buell was smitten by rock & roll at an early age, first by Elvis Presley, before the Beatles and the Rolling Stones invaded the U.S. Imagine Liv's surprise when she found out that the man she thought was her rock legend dad was not her real father - but another rock legend was? Fortunately, everyone involved in the situation acted like an adult, and everything worked out for all three parents and for Liv.It's not the smattering of records that former model/groupie Bebe Buell has issued that she's best known for, but rather her stormy affairs with a variety of rockers, as well as being the mother of actress Liv Tyler. I felt a connection in a very strong way when I met him as a little girl and I didn't know why at first, but I figured it out rather quickly."įeeling some kind of connection, Liv then asked her mother about it, and the truth came out: Tyler was her father. Liv told The Guardian in 2017, "It must be chemical somehow -– DNA and genes. She had met Tyler when she was 8, and she was drawn to him then too. The similarities in appearance to the band's frontman, Steven Tyler, were too striking to ignore, Biography reported.
How cool would it be to have a musical legend as a father? Liv Tyler grew up with that - raised by her mother, singer, model, and Playboy Playmate Bebe Buell, and the man she believed was her dad, songwriter, singer, and multi-instrumentalist Todd Rundgren.Īccording to Biography, Liv Tyler's name was originally Liv Rundgren, and she was content with life under the Rundgren name, but one day when she was 11, she was looking at a poster of Aerosmith on her wall.
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