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“I was ahead of the curve even with that. I’ve always been a pioneer!”īuell’s new album, Hard Love, was co-produced by her husband, Jim Wallerstein (a.k.a. Jimmy Walls), who also plays lead guitar. It’s not her first time in the studio she’s been trying to get her singing career going for over 30 years, with a deep, raspy voice that she put to use in high-school choir and hotel-room sing-alongs.

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. In 1984, John Taylor of Duran Duran formed the supergroup Power Station around her eventually Robert Palmer took her place. In 1991, her next band, the harder-edged group the Gargoyles, was offered a six-figure record deal. 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. (Buell had kept it secret from Liv throughout her childhood, ­until her dad was sober.) “People thought I was crazy,” she says. “But I made a choice that I needed to be a really good mom. She said, ‘If you mess up with your children, what’s the point?’ I’m just going to say it ­bluntly: I’m not Courtney Love.

I want to kick people’s asses that don’t put their kids first.

They suck.”īuell’s favorite song off the new album is “Mother of Rock & Roll,” a name that plays off the perception that for so many years, she’s just been “mother of Liv, girlfriend of that,” as she puts it. ĭishwashers with a twenty-year guarantee.Bebe Buell and Michael Schmidt in a selfie in July 2019 (Michael Schmidt / Instagram) Distinctive Featuresīebe Buell in an Instagram post as seen in August 2019 (Bebe Buell / Instagram) Bebe Buell Facts I am a rock-and-roll machine, and I don’t have an expiration date.