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Britton, Luke Morgan (February 28, 2017). "Blondie's Debbie Harry attributes her 'bisexual days' to hormones". New Musical Express . Retrieved June 1, 2019. Her collaboration and friendship with Warhol continued and she was his first guest on the MTV show Andy Warhol's Fifteen Minutes. The first episode opened with Harry announcing the theme: "Sex, Vegetables, Brothers and Sisters". [31] Harry was in a relationship with the Blondie guitarist Chris Stein. The pair split up in 1987, but they remained friends. [55] In 2011, Harry said that she and Stein were both drug users during their relationship, and that they had spent time in a rehabilitation clinic and no longer used drugs. [56] Harry is godmother to Stein's two daughters. [57] B Since 1976 the American new wave band Blondie has released 11 studio albums, 4 live albums, 14 compilation albums, 3 remix albums, 3 EPs, and 38 singles. The band has sold an estimated 40 million albums.

Hottest Photographs of Debbie Harry on Stage From the Mid-1970s". Vintag.es . Retrieved February 9, 2019. The experiments on 1980’s Autoamerican – including string-laden instrumentals, spoken word and show tunes – might have worked better if Blondie themselves had sounded like they were enjoying them. But one experiment worked. Quibble about the quality of Harry’s rapping if you want, but the disco groove beneath the whole thing is magnificent. 6. (I’m Always Touched By Your) Presence, Dear (1978) Reed, Ryan (May 29, 2019). "Blondie's Debbie Harry Memoir 'Face It' to Release in October". Rolling Stone.

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Live on stage in Amsterdam in 1977. Photograph: Gie Knaeps/Getty Images 12. Fade Away and Radiate (1978) a b c d e f Roberts, David (2006). British Hit Singles & Albums (19thed.). London: Guinness World Records Limited. p.245. ISBN 1-904994-10-5. Hip-Hop Week: DJ Kool Herc / Grandmaster Flash". Fresh Air (Podcast). NPR. August 28, 2023. Event occurs at 33:00. Rohan, Virginia (June 18, 2007). "North Jersey-bred and talented too". The Record (Bergen County) . Retrieved June 25, 2007. Debbie Harry: Class of 1963, Hawthorne High School [ dead link] Blondie's Debbie Harry claims serial killer Ted Bundy lured her into car". The Daily Telegraph. December 9, 2010. Archived from the original on January 11, 2022 . Retrieved December 4, 2013.

Blondie's eleventh studio album, Pollinator, was released in May 2017, and debuted at No. 4 in the UK. In October 2019, Harry released a memoir, Face It, through Dey Street Books. [51] In 2020, Harry cameoed on the third episode of the romantic comedy web television series High Fidelity. [52] In 2023, Rolling Stone ranked Harry at number 168 on its list of the 200 Greatest Singers of All Time. [53] Harry's fifth solo album, Necessary Evil (2007), was released after she completed the True Colors World Tour. The first single, "Two Times Blue", peaked at No. 5 on the US Dance Club Play chart. The album peaked at No. 86 in the UK and No. 37 in the US Billboard Top Independent Albums chart. Harry performed "Two Times Blue" on various talk shows to promote the album. She also started a 22-date US tour on November 8, lasting until December 9, playing small venues and clubs across the country. On January 18, 2008, an official music video for " If I Had You" was released. [43] 2008–present: Further musical endeavors [ edit ] Mikkelson, Barbara (May 14, 2007). " 'Call Me' Disbelieving, Blondie". Snopes.com . Retrieved December 4, 2013. I wasn’t making a new wave album,” said producer Mike Chapman, of Parallel Lines, “I was making a pop album.” Nowhere is that clearer than on the effortlessly commercial Sunday Girl: teen romance lyrics, the irresistible sweetness of its melody given a hint of toughness by Harry’s vocal. 10. One Way Or Another (1978)Simon, Scott (June 5, 2010). "How Times Have Changed, Ex-Playboy Bunnies Say". NPR. Actress Lauren Hutton was a Bunny, as was singer Deborah Harry... In film, Harry co-starred with Pruitt Taylor Vince and Liv Tyler in James Mangold's directorial debut Heavy (1995), playing a misanthropic waitress at an upstate New York restaurant. The following year, she filmed Mangold's Cop Land (1997), a neo-noir thriller in which she portrayed a bartender. Born in Miami, Florida, Harry was adopted as an infant and raised in Hawthorne, New Jersey. After college she worked various jobs—as a dancer, a Playboy Bunny, and a secretary (including at the BBC in New York)—before her breakthrough in the music industry. She co-formed Blondie in 1974 in New York City. The band released its eponymous debut studio album in 1976 and released three more studio albums between then and 1979, including Parallel Lines, which spawned six singles, including " Heart of Glass". Their fifth studio album, Autoamerican (1980), spawned such hits as a cover of " The Tide Is High", and " Rapture", which is considered the first rap song to chart at number one in the United States. [1] Hampton, Howard (December 27, 2016). "Experience Necessary: Deborah Harry in Videodrome". Criterion Collection. Archived from the original on October 9, 2019. In 1997, Blondie began working together again for the first time in 15years. The four original members (Harry, Stein, Clem Burke and Jimmy Destri) began sessions for what would become Blondie's seventh studio album, No Exit (1999). The lead single from the album, " Maria", debuted at No. 1 in the UK, giving Blondie their sixth UK No. 1 hit. "Maria" also reached No. 1 in 14 countries, the top 10 on the US Dance Charts, and Top 20 on the US Adult Top 40 Charts. No Exit debuted at No. 3 in the UK and No. 17 in the US.

During this time, both Harry and Stein befriended graffiti artist Fab Five Freddy, who introduced them to the emerging hip-hop scene in the Bronx. Freddy is mentioned in "Rapture". [27] Through Fab Five Freddy they were also able to connect with Grandmaster Flash [28] who is played by Jean-Michel Basquiat in the video. [27] "Rapture" became the first rap-oriented song to reach No. 1 in the US Billboard charts. [29] Grandmaster Flash said Harry "opened up so many doors for hip hop" by mentioning him in Rapture. [30] In 1981, Harry issued a press release to clarify that her name was not "Debbie Blondie" or "Debbie Harry" but rather Deborah Harry, though Harry later described her character in the band as being named "Blondie", as in this quote from the No Exit tour book: Watch Arcade Fire Duet With Debbie Harry". Rolling Stone. April 14, 2014 . Retrieved August 15, 2017. The Jeffrey Lee Pierce Sessions Project - The Journey is Long". Glitterhouse Records . Retrieved March 30, 2012. Centenary College Honors Deborah Harry as a Distinguished Alumna". Archived from the original on March 4, 2012 . Retrieved October 20, 2012.Harry said of her relationship with Warhol, "I think the best thing [Andy Warhol] taught me was always to be open to new things, new music, new style, new bands, new technology and just go with it. Never get mired in the past and always accept new things whatever age you are." [32] 1981–1996: Solo work and acting [ edit ]