The person that talked me in to posing for Playboy magazine was Patti Smith. More interestingly, Smith would have been totally down with posing for Playboy herself. According to Buell in the essential oral history of punk Please Kill Me by Legs McNeil and Gillian McCain, it was actually Smith who convinced Buell that she should say yes to Playboy. She also had some fairly serious dalliances with Rundgren, and was also friendly with Buell. the rock stars came-a-hunting.”Īnother notable woman living in NYC at that time was Patti Smith, who had yet to record any music under her name. (In her Playmate Fact Sheet, she lists “My boyfriend, Todd Rundgren” under “Favorite Performer.”) While posing in Playboy probably didn’t help her recording career any, it did have the effect of elevating her status among the rock elite-as she said, after “I did Playboy. She didn’t need Playboy to date Rundgren, whom she’d already been seeing for a couple of years. One of the major turning points in Buell’s life was becoming the Playboy Playmate of the Month in November 1974. Liv Tyler herself didn’t know the truth until she was nine years old. Although Todd Rundgren and Buell were breaking up around around the time of Liv Tyler’s birth, Rundgren committed to the deception and for years did not divulge that he wasn’t Liv Tyler’s biological father. Famously, she gave birth to Steven Tyler’s daughter but knowingly named her with the “wrong” name Liv Rundgren to shield her from Tyler’s addiction problems. During the 1970s she also had romantic involvements with Mick Jagger, Iggy Pop, David Bowie, Elvis Costello, and Jimmy Page. Her first relationship with a rock star came when she dated Paul Cowsill of the Cowsills she was 16 at the time. Patti never made the Playboy scene, but she was a CREEM Dream at some point in the late 70sīebe Buell was one of the most famous rock and roll girlfriends of the 1970s (she doesn’t like the term groupie, calling Pamela Des Barres’ scene in L.A.

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