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Debbie Harry dyed her hair blonde because she was “bored”. The singer’s famous barnet gave her band the name Blondie after a truck driver shouted it at her on the street and now her bandmate Chris Stein has revealed it all came about because Debbie worked at a salon and decided to ditch her brunette locks during a slow day when she didn’t have any customers. In his new book ‘Under a Rock’, Chris wrote: “I was in Debbie’s apartment one afternoon and she came back from work at the salon in New Jersey and I saw that she had dyed her hair blonde. “She said they hadn’t had many customers and she an...
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Blondie's Debbie Harry would love to work with Johnny Depp. Besides being the frontwoman of the 'Heart of Glass' group, the 78-year-old singer is also an actress. Whilst the group were on hiatus, she launched her acting career, starring in the neo-noir 'Union City' (1980) and in David Cronenberg's body horror film 'Videodrome' (1983). She went on to land roles in John Waters's cult dance film 'Hairspray' (1988), and after releasing more albums, she was in horror film 'Body Bags' (1993), and the drama 'Heavy' (1995). The 'One Way or Another' hitmaker is still keen to act and has the 'Pirates of...
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Blondie's Chris Stein doesn't think he'll play live with the group again. The 74-year-old guitarist has just finished work on a new album, but he won't be joining fellow founder member Debbie Harry and the rest of the group on the road in support of the record because his health isn't up to the demands of travel anymore. He told The Observer newspaper: “After 50 years and all my health issues, I live a little more sedentary now. “Just doing the hotels and the airplanes is hard. And I’ve got a f****** heart condition and I’m at the tail end of dealing with prostate cancer, so I just thought, ‘F...
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Chris Stein is still "very close" to his ex-girlfriend Debbie Harry. The 74-year-old guitarist got together with his former Blondie bandmate Debbie, in 1973 and they were together for more than a decade during the height of their fame but even though he is now married to actress Barbara Sicuranza, he admitted that he is still in touch with his ex-partner. He told The Times: "We are still very close. But I’ve been married for 25 years now." When it was suggested to him that it must be "very odd" for him to be constantly questioned about his old relationship, Chris agreed and explained: "Yeah.We...
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Debbie Harry thinks she needs to see a speech therapist because she's spent years struggling with her pronunciation. The 78-year-old Blondie star made the admission during an interview at the International Film Festival Rotterdam in the Netherlands, Debbie admitted she's never been totally comfortable with the way she talks and could use some help wth her consonants. She explained: "I am not so bad with vowels, but I could work on consonants. I am going to a speech therapist tomorrow. Is anyone here a critic? I am more critical than you, much more." During the talk with 'So Unreal' director Am...
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Debbie Harry has insisted "most women" would have "died" to have David Bowie flash his penis at them. The Blondie frontwoman memorably revealed in her 2019 autobiography 'Face It' that offering cocaine to Iggy Pop and the late 'Ziggy Stardust' hitmaker - who died of cancer in 2016 - during a tour in 1977, her pal had thanked her by taking out his "notoriously" large member. She wrote at the time: “David’s size was notorious, of course, and he loved to pull it out with both men and women. It was so adorable, funny and sexy.” And at the suggestion some people may have not wanted to see it, she l...
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Dolly Parton still gets starstruck. The 76-year-old music icon - who was inducted into the prestigious Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on Saturday (05.11.22) - has been on the country scene for more than 50 years but has been "thrilled" to have talked to fellow industry legends as she prepares her next album. She said: "I've been starstruck a lot lately. I'm not sure if you've heard, but I'm making a rock album. If I'm gonna be in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, I'm gonna earn it. I'm working on a rock album now, and I've been talking to Elton John, Mick Jagger, and Debbie Harry. Every time I speak...
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Blondie's gig was once interrupted by an "entire firing squad". The group were performing at iconic New York nightspot CBGB in the 1970s when the show was suddenly interrupted, and they suspect it was partly to make a video of their gig look even "better". Discussing memories of CBGB, singer Debbie Harry told Vulture: "Right before we went on the tour with David Bowie and Iggy Pop, there was a firing squad that came in. An entire firing squad!" Bandmate Chris Stein added: "The fire department was called, and Rod Swenson, who was the Plasmatics’ manager at the time, was filming us doing our sho...
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Clare Grogan says every woman she knows has been hit with a #MeToo moment. The singer and ‘Gregory’s Girl’ actress, 60, was said by an interview to have got teary-eyed when asked if she had ever experienced the kind of sexism the movement exposed. She told the Daily Telegraph on Thursday (18.08.22) about her take on #MeToo: “It’s quite complex, and it’s really personal. Every woman I know has had some kind of experience of sexual harassment or worse. “It’s so disappointing. I think it’s really important that people do vocalise this stuff, but in your own terms, and in your own time. “I’m not s...
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Debbie Harry believes "everything in the world is about sex" - apart from politics. The Blondie singer also reflected on the "chaos and deconstruction" of punk, as well as the genre's "big sexual component", which she believed presented a different attitude to those which had gone before. Speaking to author and artist Hugo Huera Marin for upcoming book 'Portrait of an Artist: Conversations with Trailblazing Creative Women', the New York Post newspaper's PageSix column reports 76-year-old Debbie said: “The only thing that isn’t about sex is politics. Everything else in the world is about sex: w...
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