Notes on life, art, photography and technology, by a Danish dropout bohemian.
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Sunday, January 18, 2009
Blondie: Slow Motion
I remember seeing Debbie Harrie on TV for the first time (1977 maybe). I was thunderstruck. My older brother and mom half-teased me: "I'd like to know what you're type of girl is." I said, "well, her! Duh."
I think the song we saw was Heart of Glass:
... It would fit, she is frigging gorgeous in this one.
I always saw Blondie as the closest thing to the model band for the band Frozen Gold in Iain Banks' woderful novel Espedair Street.
Blondie was disbanded between 1982 and 1997. They came together because interest had grown. Their albums since then, No Exit and The Curse Of Blondie, are surprisingly nice. (Funny enough, both titles can be interpreted as meaning the band members had tried to get rid of/out of Blondie, but just can't. I wonder.)
"... It would fit, she is frigging gorgeous in this one."
ReplyDeleteAh, do I detect the desire to have a new DOMAI model?
If I remember correctly, she was a Playboy Bunny.
ReplyDeletehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debbie_Harry
I heard a rumor back then that she'd once been a "kept bimbo" for a millionaire, surely a monstrous slur. :-)
ReplyDeleteShe kept her looks well, she was already thirty when they formed Blondie in 1975.
This is the second time she's popped up in my feed list in a week. See how great she's still looking in Deborah Harry's Plastic Surgery Rocks.
ReplyDeleteI never realised that she was quite an accomplished actress until I saw her in a less than glamourous role in My Life Without Me a few months ago.