It is a tragic delusion about which I wish I could say: ‘I shall not dignify that with a response’ but ‘dignity’ doesn’t come into this story.”īuell called me up to object that she’d never claimed to be the inspiration for the songs on Armed Forces-which appears to be true. This was also said about the previous release–a chronological impossibility–and many of my other compositions to this day. She’d later claim to have inspired most of the songs on this record–all of which were already written when we met. But deep down he knows the truth.”Ĭostello, for his part, addressed Buell, although not by name, on the liner notes to a reissue of Armed Forces: “She turned up with eight pieces of luggage like a mail-order bride and moved in. He wants people to think I’m crazy it delights him. He writes these lyrics because he knows I will see them, but he also knows that if I try to express this to people, they will think I am nuts. Buell summarized: “It’s scary what Elvis does. She said he was the love of her life, and saw their relationship as being a pervasive inspiration for Costello’s work, down to the title of Blood and Chocolate (from her habit of demanding a candy bar whenever she got her period). “ Apres moi, le deluge.” Buell was close enough to the Rolling Stones to report in her deliciously trashy autobiography Rebel Heart that Keith Richards was the best-endowed member of the group and that Jagger objected to her liaison with Steven Tyler, telling her, “Why do you want the fake Mick when you’ve got the real one?”īuell certainly had an intense affair with Costello as she described it, it lasted from 1978 to 1979, then again from 1982 to 1985, and ended when she aborted their child. “At the time, relations between models and rock stars were rare,” she mused.
These days, many people just know Bebe Buell as the mother of Liv Tyler, but in the ’70s, she was a model and Playboy centerfold who had romantic liaisons with just about every major figure in rock, including Steven Tyler, Todd Rundgren, Iggy Pop, David Bowie, Mick Jagger, Jimmy Page, and Rod Stewart.
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