Buell is still close friends with Patti Smith and Debbie Harry whom she met early on, “They’re my girlfriends, these are people I’ve known since I was a young, young girl. She was always drawn to music and quickly found her way to Max’s Kansas City and CBGB. And now fashion magazines have more nudity in them than Playboy.” Everyone did Playboy including Cindy Crawford. But that changed-look what happened in the 90s. I had no idea the backlash I was going to get. It’s like doing a modelling job except there’s no clothes. “If people knew what it was like to do a Playboy shoot it’s very professional. She posed for Playboy as “Miss November” of 1974.

It’s going to be very spiritual, it’s going to talk about your inner state of mind and how where you’re at artistically and spiritually emanates in your physical being.” Photo by Lynn Goldsmithīebe Buell first moved to New York after high school, where she worked as a model. People always ask me what my tips and my secrets are so I decided I’m going to do that. I’ve been diligently working on that for almost three years now. I’m actually doing the follow up to Rebel Heart which is Rebel Soul and I’ll pick up where Rebel Heart left off. It will have all never-before-seen photos. “I’m compiling a coffee table photo book which will span my entire life from birth until now. So much of life has changed since that book was written.” Now, Bebe Buell has three books in the works. I don’t think you choose Nashville, I think Nashville chooses you,” says Buell.īuell published her memoir, the New York Times bestseller, Rebel Heart, in 2001, co-written with Victor Bockis. “I fell into some kind of magical vortex that I think happens to some people when they come to Nashville. Having moved to Nashville after a trip in 2012 to sing on an Eddy Arnold tribute record, Bebe Buell uprooted her New York life and chose the southern comforts. In fact, this in coming year alone she has a lot planned. (She prefers “muse” or “rock girlfriend,”) Anyway, that was then, and this is now. Bebe Buell might have first been brought to your attention as a Playboy model or girlfriend to several major rockstars-Mick Jagger, Iggy Pop, David Bowie, Elvis Costello, Todd Rundgren, Jimmy Page, Stiv Bators and Steven Tyler-but don’t call her a groupie.

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