Face It: A Memoir

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Furdyk, Brent (August 3, 2019). "Blondie Singer Debbie Harry Details Horrifying Sexual Assault In The 1970s". Entertainment Tonight. Archived from the original on August 7, 2019. Britton, Luke Morgan (February 28, 2017). "Blondie's Debbie Harry attributes her 'bisexual days' to hormones". New Musical Express . Retrieved June 1, 2019. In The Drama of Celebrity, Sharon Marcus writes, “The more singular a celebrity, the easier they are to replicate.” The ultimate proof of Debbie Harry’s singular influence can be seen in her musical progeny, who are legion. Madonna, Courtney Love, Lady Gaga, Babes in Toyland, Bikini Kill, Shonen Knife, Sleater Kinney, Pussy Riot, Angel Olsen and countless others didn’t need to mail Debbie Harry examples of their fan art. All they had to do was open their mouths, and sing. Harry didn't seem to be connected to the the book at all and there was nothing that felt personal or overly interesting in the entirety of the book. Hip-Hop Week: DJ Kool Herc / Grandmaster Flash". Fresh Air (Podcast). NPR. August 28, 2023. Event occurs at 33:00.

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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.

All of that said, Debbie Harry is an icon, and although I didn’t get much of a feel for who she is, deep down, I still love her music and was glad I had the chance to learn a bit more about her history. I suppose she’s still holding fast to her public image and mystique, and maybe she feels like it is still her bread and butter, so she didn't want to shatter that image. Note: I couldn't comment on the promoted artwork and photos as they weren't part of the advance copy.)

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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. Although Blondie's "Rapture" was the first song with a rap to go No. 1, Vanilla Ice's "Ice Ice Baby" was the first No. 1 rap song by a rapper". DailyRapFacts. October 2, 2019 . Retrieved June 9, 2020.Harry was immortalized by Andy Warhol in 1980, who produced a number of artworks of her image from a single photoshoot at the Factory. The artist created a small series of four acrylic and silkscreen ink on canvas portraits of the star in different colors, as well as Polaroids and a small number of rare silver gelatin prints from the shoot. Stein was also present that day to capture Warhol photographing Harry in a series of his own photographs, exhibited in 2013 in London. A weirdly tone-deaf memoir with a ton of mixed messages. Debbie spends a lot of time detailing instances where she was harassed, assaulted, or generally treated poorly by sexist men but then ends the bio by saying she "could never put [herself] in the position of whining about being a woman" because sexism played little part in her struggles. 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 ]

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I suspect the revelations from the #MeToo movement can’t have come as any surprise – her book is full of incidences of being abused, stalked and generally mistreated by men – but she says incidences of harassment in her career were rare. “I was working as a team and in a relationship. I wouldn’t have felt comfortable being a solo artist and I’m sure that those girls have a lot more to say about that than I do. I never went into meetings trying to get a record deal by myself, so it’s a little bit different.” The most important part of the #MeToo movement, she says, “is that it makes men stop and think about their accepted behaviour”. Hampton, Howard (December 27, 2016). "Experience Necessary: Deborah Harry in Videodrome". Criterion Collection. Archived from the original on October 9, 2019.And while reading this book, I couldn't believe that it's already been 20+ years since Blondie regrouped in the late 1990s and recorded the album No Exit (an album that now appears to be out of print). Time flies when you're sleepwalking through life in pointless meetings and unsatisfying relationships. (Thankfully, one of those scenarios has changed over the years. Hint: It's not the pointless meetings.) 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.

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I wasn’t there for that last night. I hope I saw them there but I can’t honestly say I did. It’s a blur. There was so much going on, and a lot of great artists hung out at Max’s. I distinctly remember meeting Stevie Winwood, and how adorable he was. Not to say that he’s not adorable now. I did get to see the Velvets when they reunited and played only two shows, and that was wonderful. First, I feel like there was no Debbie Harry in this book about Debbie Harry. Meaning, there was literally NO emotion. I feel like I never really got to know Debbie Harry at all, having just read an entire book about Debbie Harry, supposedly written by Debbie Harry. She knows it may seem hard to believe. “It is ludicrous,” she says, “and it is kind of funny that I would say it, but, truly, I wasn’t physically molested. Afterwards, I was with Chris, and I was, you know …” She makes a sound to signal the horror she must have felt. “I went on with my life. But as I say, I wasn’t beaten or assaulted and I think that, coupled with being sexually violated, is truly awful. Then you are really made to feel powerless.” But she was tied up at knifepoint. Didn’t that make her feel powerless? “Yeah. Not the same. It wasn’t for me anyway.” She didn’t have counselling, and says Stein was supportive “and we moved on”.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: a b "Debbie Harry: 'Sex is what makes everything happen' ". The Irish Times . Retrieved October 28, 2019. I always liked Blondie. The music was catchy with a crossover appeal and I thought Debbie Harry was the perfect front person for the group. I can’t say I was a super fan and up until now I knew very little about Debbie from a personal standpoint. I had heard she had a drug addiction, but other than that I couldn’t have told one other thing about her. Harry was born Angela Trimble on July 1, 1945, in Miami, Florida. [2] At the age of three months, she was adopted by Catherine (née Peters) and Richard Harry, [3] gift shop proprietors in Hawthorne, New Jersey, and renamed Deborah Ann Harry. Harry learned of her adoption at four years old. At first she decided against locating her birth parents, [4] but nonetheless, in the late 1980s, [5] located her birth mother, a concert pianist, who chose not to establish a relationship with Harry. [6] In her memoir, she recalls being a tomboy, spending much of her childhood playing in the woods adjacent to her home. [7] Bronson, Fred (2003). The Billboard Book of Number One Hits. Billboard Books. p.549. ISBN 978-0-823-07677-2.