A month ago I mentioned it was Debbie Harry’s 65th birthday, and played Hanging on the Telephone. A much more technically advanced recording from Blondie’s album Parallel Lines is Heart of Glass. Here’s an explanation of how it was put together. I don’t know know yet who made this video, but it seems to be from England, and it’s excellent. Thanks go to David Barsalou for pointing it out.
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We’re all young once…
The story I recall reading long ago in an old issue of CREEM magazine that I can’t find at the moment went something like this. Debbie Harry was spotted at CBGB’s by some fashion biz type from a slick magazine or a big modeling agency. He walked up to her, handed Debbie his card, and said, “Be there at 10 tomorrow. Name your price.” Debbie, who by then was already nearly thirty, and who had previously worked as a waitress and a Playboy bunny, threw the card away.
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Happy 65th birthday to the one and only Debbie Harry, icon and role model, who has my vote as the #1 most important female music talent of her era.