1 July 2024
DEBBIE HARRY was born, named Angela Trimble on 1 July 1945. Happy 78
to the iconic and incomparably charismatic Blondie singer/co-songwriter and
Sunday pin-up girl.
FRED SCHNEIDER, the frontman of the all-time great B-52’s
was born in New Wark, New Jersey on 1 July 1951. Happy 73!
R&B star MISSY ELLIOTT was born, named Melissa Arnette Elliott
on 1 July 1971. Happy 53 to the exquisite rapper.
4 March 2024
Imperishable Debbie.
Daily noise that works faster than any stimulant
25 December 2023
DEBBIE HARRY and CHRIS STEIN teamed up 2 years ago with hip-hop pioneer
FAB 5 FREDDY (real name: Fred Brathwaite) for an Xmas rework of Blondie‘s 1981
hit The Rapture and named it Yuletide Throwdown.
Debbie: “It has been an impossible amount of time since I believed
in Santa Claus, but I could very well believe again if he was Freddy
Brathwaite!!”
Funky.
Vibey.
Bass-y.
Rap it up, folks.
Happy Xmas.
28 November 2023
A pin-up skull.
(image: cover of her single ‘French Kissin’)
Top singles from the past
30 October 2023
Immortal pop legends BLONDIE released their UK hit single
HANGING ON THE TELEPHONE 45 years ago today, on
30 October 1978.
It was the opening track of Parallel Lines, their third and best LP to my ears.
The song was actually written by the not so famous songwriter Jack Lee in 1976
for his band The Nerves.
Blondie learned about the song when Gun Club frontman Jeffrey Lee Pierce
had given them a compilation cassette with that The Nerves song on it.
The single peaked at #5 in
the UK and flopped in the US.
Hello, Debbie?
Blondie: Instagram – Facebook
14 July 2023
Still going strong on stage.
1 July 2023
Last Wednesday the late Jeffrey Lee Pierce, the wayward mastermind of underrated
indie mavericks Gun Club from L.A. would have celebrated his 65th birthday. Today
glam pop-punk diva Debbie Harry turns 78. Born Angela Trimble July 1, 1945 in Miami.
And yesterday she and expert crooner Nick Cave shared their duet cover of JLP song
On The Other Side. A pearl he only played live for a while. I’m sure there’s a connection between all those facts.
Cypress Grove (British songwriter who played with JLP): “Jeffrey Lee Pierce only performed the song live a few times, faster in tempo before being transformed into an exquisite ballad with Cave on piano, me on guitar, synth by Warren Ellis and Guido Benigni on bass providing
a sensitive backdrop to Nick and Debbie’s unearthly vocal.”
Turn Up The Volume‘s best cover of the month, June 2023.
Heart-and-Soul Touching.
The song will feature on a Jeffrey Lee Pierce tribute album titled The Task Has Overwhelmed Us coming in September. Many other big names are on it too, such
as the late Mark Lanegan, Lydia Lunch, Dave Gahan, the Coathangers, Jim Jarmusch
and more.
Album details here.
19 April 2023
At 77 DEBBIE HARRY and BLONDIE are still playing around the globe.
They performed last weekend at Coachella Festival in Indio, California.
Chic maestro NILE RODGERS joined the iconic band on stage for their 1981
hit RAPTURE and it was him who stole the show with his rapturous guitar
play, quite superb even.
Watch/listen.
BLONDIE: Facebook – Instagram
Great music magazine covers from the past
DEBBIE HARRY
OOR Magazine (The Netherlands)
August 1981
She always be a Sunday Girl.
