Debbie Harry

A rock star pin-up and one of music's most iconic front-women, Debbie Harry's irresistible charisma and ice cool sexuality sent Blondie from New York's sweaty CBGBs punk club into the arms of the mainstream pop charts. Raised in New Jersey, Harry released an album with her first band The Wind in the Willows, waited tables and became a Playboy Bunny before forming Blondie with boyfriend Chris Stein in 1974; going on to become one of the biggest bands of the late 1970s with six UK Number 1 singles and album sales topping 40 million. Harry worked with Nile Rodgers and Bernard Edwards from Chic on her funk influenced debut solo album Koo Koo (1981), and after Blondie split in 1982 she followed it up with Rockbird (1986), which produced the hit single "French Kissing" (written by Chuck Lore the creator of sitcom Two and a Half Men). Her output was held back by her need to care for Stein who suffered from a life threatening auto-immune disease, and she turned her attention to acting with roles in the films Videodrome, Hairspray and Intimate Stranger, while also collaborating on tracks with Iggy Pop, Elvis Costello and German metal band Die Haut. Blondie reformed in 1997 and Debbie (now wanting to be known as Deborah) returned with her fifth studio album Necessary Evil (2007).

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