" Funtime " is a song written by Iggy Pop and David Bowie , first released by Iggy Pop on his 1977 album entitled The Idiot . It reflects Iggy and Bowie's growing fascination with the German music scene, and bears marked similarities to "Lila Engel" by krautrock band Neu! . It has since been covered by multiple artists including Blondie , Boy George , Bebe Buell , Peter Murphy , R.E.M. and The Cars .
21-418: Funtime or Fun Time may refer to: "Funtime" (Iggy Pop song) , 1977, covered by Boy George "Funtime" (The Spitfire Boys song) , 1979 Funtime Comics , a Christchurch, New Zealand based collective of comic artists and writers Fun Time (TV series) , a Canadian children's television series Fun Time (album) , a 1975 album by Count Basie "Fun Time",
42-471: A U.S. Navy officer and World War II veteran. As her father was not at home at the time of Buell's birth, her mother waited until he got back before naming her daughter. The nurses in the hospital took to calling her "Baby Buell," which is where her nickname of "Bebe" originated. She is of German descent. Buell was discovered by modeling agency executive Eileen Ford after high school graduation at age 17, and relocated to New York City at age 18. She
63-520: A couple of singles. A few large record companies showed interest, but the Gargoyles disbanded when Liv Tyler's paternity became public in 1991. Buell withdrew from performing for six years in the 1990s. She managed Liv's career as an international model and actress. She also represented actress Charis Michelsen . After Liv left home in 1997, Buell recorded a solo effort with producer Don Fleming , released in 2000. She also performed around New York with
84-523: A cover of "Funtime" on his 1988 album Love Hysteria . In 1989, R.E.M. released their own version as the B-side to the Green track " Get Up ". A live version of "Funtime" was also recorded by R.E.M. on November 19, 1992, and included on 1995's Strange Currencies EP. A fifteen-minute live medley of T. Rex 's " Bang a Gong " and "Funtime" was performed in 1980 by American band Blondie and released on
105-641: A four-song EP on Rhino Records , produced by Rick Derringer and Ric Ocasek , with the Cars serving as her band on two tracks. The rock band the Power Station began in 1984 when her then-boyfriend John Taylor (of Duran Duran fame) pulled some famous friends together to provide backing for another of Buell's musical efforts. She also formed the band the B-Sides in 1980; it disbanded in 1985. In 1985 Buell started another band, The Gargoyles, and released
126-582: A song written by Allen Toussaint and performed by Joe Cocker on the 1978 album Luxury You Can Afford Funtime, Inc. , a former amusement park operator based in Cleveland, Ohio Funtime (manufacturer) , an Austrian amusement ride manufacturer Funtime (amusement park) , an amusement park in Surfers Paradise, Queensland, Australia Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with
147-536: Is Liv's legally adoptive father. In 2001 Buell published her autobiography with St. Martin's Press (with Victor Bockris ), Rebel Heart: An American Rock and Roll Journey . The book was a New York Times bestseller . The paperback was issued in 2002. Buell was born in Portsmouth, Virginia , the daughter of Dorothea (Brown) Johnson, who founded the Protocol School of Washington, and Harold Lloyd Buell,
168-632: The "band-aid" character Penny Lane as a composite of a handful of girls he saw backstage in the late 1960s and early 1970s at concerts calling themselves the "Flying Garter Girls". One girl who went by the nickname Penny Lane is real-life Pennie Lane Trumbull , born in Portland, Oregon , in 1954. Though they were not in the Flying Garter Girls group, various other women have been described as Crowe's inspiration, for instance Pamela Des Barres and Buell. Buell partially inspired Crowe; he named
189-435: The 1997 album Picture This Live , also released as Blondie Live - Philadelphia 1978/Dallas 1980 . AllMusic reviewer Stephen Thomas Erlewine described the medley as a highlight of the disc. English pop singer Boy George released a cover of "Funtime" as the lead track on his 1995 album Cheapness and Beauty ; AllMusic reviewer William Ruhlmann described George's cover as "a screaming guitar rock version." A music video
210-597: The Bebe Buell Band and later with Boston musicians The Rudds and the Neighborhoods' drummer Johnny Lynch, forming a new band for a few shows that also included her husband, James Wallerstein. In May 2009 Buell released her first recording in ten years, the single "Air Kisses for the Masses". She then recorded a 12-song album that can be downloaded on iTunes or Amazon MP3. Buell played a series of live shows in
231-633: The Cowsills when she was 15. She has dated Mick Jagger , Iggy Pop , David Bowie , Elvis Costello , Todd Rundgren , Jimmy Page , Duran Duran 's John Taylor , and Steven Tyler among others, but she rejects the label " groupie ". From 1972 to 1978, Bebe Buell had a longterm, on and off, relationship with Todd Rundgren . In 1976, Buell became unexpectedly pregnant from a brief relationship with Steven Tyler. On July 1, 1977, Buell gave birth to future actress/model Liv Tyler , but Buell initially named her child Liv Rundgren and claimed that Todd Rundgren
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#1732793751996252-499: The Month . Buell moved to New York in 1972 after signing a modeling contract with Eileen Ford , and garnered notability after her publicized relationship with musician Todd Rundgren from 1972 until 1978, as well as her liaisons with several rock musicians during that time and over the following four decades. She is the mother of actress Liv Tyler (born 1977), whose biological father is Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler . Todd Rundgren
273-677: The New York City area to promote the single. In September 2011 Buell released Hard Love , an aggressive rock album influenced by grunge and glam rock . It was produced by Wallerstein and Stephen DeAcutis. The 11-track record features original songs alongside covers of Gang of Four 's "I Love a Man in Uniform" and "Baby Baby" by the English punk rock band the Vibrators . Buell has dated many musicians, beginning with Paul Cowsill of
294-452: The Sly & The Family Stone song "Fun", which appeared on their 1968 album Life. The song was used in the movie The Hunger along with the song " Bela Lugosi's Dead " by goth rock band Bauhaus , whose frontman Peter Murphy later covered "Funtime". The Hunger also stars the co-writer of "Funtime", David Bowie. Following its studio appearance on The Idiot , a live version of "Funtime"
315-536: The idea for the song after hearing the Sex Pistols cover the song " No Fun " by his band The Stooges , lyrically the song's ironic take on fun is similar to the song in question. David Bowie wrote the music as well as plays guitar, synthesizers, piano and sings the main chorus on the track. Most notably one of the riffs he plays is a parody of the main riff of The Rolling Stones ' " (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction ". The song would also appear to have been inspired by
336-465: The title Funtime . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Funtime&oldid=1079188734 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Funtime (Iggy Pop song) Iggy had
357-504: Was Playboy magazine's Playmate of the Month for the November 1974 issue; her centerfold was photographed by Richard Fegley . Describing her early years and modeling career, Buell said, "[I wanted] to be a professional singer [which was why] I came to New York—yes, I was a pretty young girl, so I fell into the modeling thing, and [then] I did Playboy , so then the rock stars came a-hunting, as I like to say." In 1981 Buell recorded
378-629: Was created for the song and it was released as a single, reaching number 45 on the UK Singles Chart in April 1995 and number 60 in Australia in June 1995. Bebe Buell Beverle Lorence " Bebe " Buell ( / ˈ b iː b iː ˈ b j uː l / BEE -bee BYUUL ; born July 14, 1953) is an American singer and former model. She was Playboy magazine's November 1974 Playmate of
399-461: Was included on Pop's TV Eye Live 1977 . Pop also performed the song on the television show Dinah! in 1977 with Bowie accompanying on keyboards and backing vocal. During the sessions for 1981's Shake It Up , members of The Cars recorded a version of "Funtime" featuring bassist Benjamin Orr on vocals. According to Brett Milano 's liner notes for Just What I Needed: The Cars Anthology , Pop
420-475: Was present at the recording session and complimented Orr's vocal impersonation of him, telling the bassist "You sound more like me than me." The song was later stripped of Orr's vocals and re-sung by fashion model Bebe Buell , whom Cars singer Ric Ocasek had befriended. The version with Buell's vocals was included on her 1981 EP Covers Girl ; the Cars version was released on 1995's Just What I Needed anthology. Former Bauhaus singer Peter Murphy included
441-556: Was the biological father to protect the child from Tyler's drug addiction. Rundgren and Buell ended their romantic relationship shortly after Liv's birth. At age 9, Liv found out that she was Steven Tyler's biological daughter. In 1992, Buell married for the first time. She wed sometime-musician and actor Coyote Shivers . They divorced in 1999 after a year-long separation. In 2002, she married musician Jim Wallerstein (aka Jim Walters) of Das Damen . For his film Almost Famous , music journalist and filmmaker Cameron Crowe developed
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