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| | Salon.com Books | "Rebel Heart" by Bebe Buell |
 | | In "Rebel Heart," her tedious, self-obsessed, almost shockingly joyless autobiography, Bebe Buell, a former model and Playboy centerfold who has been paramour to the likes of Mick Jagger, Jimmy Page, Todd Rundgren, Steven Tyler and Elvis Costello, asserts with obvious disdain that she has never been a groupie. |
 | | In the early '70s, while she was living with her then-steady Rundgren (certainly no model of fidelity himself), she would drift into affairs with dashing rock stars partly to get back at him, but mostly because she was madly, and understandably, drawn to them. |
 | | Buell kicks her book off in the right mood, opening her story with a brief account of her teenage years in Virginia, a period when she drove her mother and stepfather nuts and tripped her brains out whenever possible. |
| archive.salon.com /books/review/2001/09/11/buell (685 words) |
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