5/29/2023 0 Comments Blondie tokes clean me up![]() ![]() Then, setting a stash aside and stealing Stein’s guitar and camera, he proceeded to rape Debbie Harry while Stein helplessly watched on. He tied them both up and ransacked the apartment for drugs. One night in the early seventies, the pair returned home from a gig when a man forced his way into their apartment while wielding a knife. They experimented with drugs and found themselves occupying dangerous neighbourhoods. However, aside from describing the meeting as the best thing that ever happened to her, the pair endured some truly harrowing incidents. That is until she met Blondie co-founder and guitarist Chris Stein, with whom she would enjoy a stable romantic relationship up until 1989. During all of this, she was a brunette and her peroxide moment in the sun seemed to be shaded by the heavy cloud cover of living in obscurity in every which way. In a critical sense, you’ll struggle to find a review that isn’t a retrospective one overstating the barely noticeable presence of Harry. The album was released on Capitol Records, and it just about grazed the charts at number 195. In 1968, her first recorded work was as a backing singer for the folk group The Wind in the Willows. Her first exploits in music were a world away from the glam-punk epitome that we now know her as. She then spent time as a secretary for BBC Radio’s offices in New York, worked as a waitress in the renowned rock joint Max’s Kansas City, became a go-go dancer at a New Jersey discotheque and even tried her hand at being a Playboy Bunny. She found herself in an abusive relationship with a man who once held a gun to her head and threatened to rape her because he suspected she was sleeping with another man. When she came of age, this daring pursuit of belonging had its own dangers. As she candidly writes in her memoir, “I guess somewhere in my subconscious, a scene was playing on a loop of a parent leaving me somewhere and never coming back.” This lingering nag led her to search out a purpose and place in the world with more fervour than many of her friends. Her quiet New Jersey childhood was forever permeated by the knowledge of her adoption. In December 1976, two years after Blondie first formed, their debut album catapulted them to critical acclaim and global success, but like a diamond finally thrust to the surface after years underground, this was a crystalising moment long in the making for one of music’s greatest frontwomen.Īt the start of this journey was the moment that she was adopted as a baby. It was in this melee of simultaneous triumph and transition, artfulness and apathy, that a New York nightclub called The CBGB became the Mecca of the latest cultural zeitgeist, and Debbie Harry was not only one of its favourite denizens, but its brightest future star. The boon to this drudgery was the greatest decade of music in history however, by the mid part of the seventies, like a champion sports team worrying about the average age of its roster, even music needed something new. ![]()
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