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During this time, both Harry and Stein befriended graffiti artist Fab Five Freddy, who introduced them to the emerging hip-hop scene in the Bronx. Freddy is mentioned in "Rapture". [27] Through Fab Five Freddy they were also able to connect with Grandmaster Flash [28] who is played by Jean-Michel Basquiat in the video. [27] "Rapture" became the first rap-oriented song to reach No. 1 in the US Billboard charts. [29] Grandmaster Flash said Harry "opened up so many doors for hip hop" by mentioning him in Rapture. [30] Hampton, Howard (December 27, 2016). "Experience Necessary: Deborah Harry in Videodrome". Criterion Collection. Archived from the original on October 9, 2019.

Blondie's Debbie Harry claims serial killer Ted Bundy lured her into car". The Daily Telegraph. December 9, 2010. Archived from the original on January 11, 2022 . Retrieved December 4, 2013. Watch Arcade Fire Duet With Debbie Harry". Rolling Stone. April 14, 2014 . Retrieved August 15, 2017. Harry was immortalized by Andy Warhol in 1980, who produced a number of artworks of her image from a single photoshoot at the Factory. The artist created a small series of four acrylic and silkscreen ink on canvas portraits of the star in different colors, as well as Polaroids and a small number of rare silver gelatin prints from the shoot. Stein was also present that day to capture Warhol photographing Harry in a series of his own photographs, exhibited in 2013 in London. In her 2019 memoir, Face It: A Memoir, Harry describes having been raped at knifepoint during a burglary of the home she shared with Stein. [59] She also wrote that during the early 1970s, the serial killer Ted Bundy lured her into his car in New York City, but she escaped. Harry's description of the white vehicle stripped on the inside and missing the passenger door handle matched the 1968 VW Bundy was driving, but authorities believed him to be in Florida at the time. Ann Rule, an author of the Bundy biography The Stranger Beside Me, commented that erroneous claims of Bundy abductions are fairly common. [60] [61] [62] Hi, it's Deb. You know, when I woke up this morning I had a realization about myself. I was always Blondie. People always called me Blondie, ever since I was a little kid. What I realized is that at some point I became Dirty Harry. I couldn't be Blondie anymore, so I became Dirty Harry. [33]The final original Blondie album, The Hunter, is leaden, miserable listening, with glossy production that can’t hide uninspired songs. But there’s one exception, a would-be Bond theme with a killer chorus. Bond’s producers rejected it in favour of a Sheena Easton ballad, which was pretty much the final insult. 14. In the Flesh (1976) In 1981, Harry issued a press release to clarify that her name was not "Debbie Blondie" or "Debbie Harry" but rather Deborah Harry, though Harry later described her character in the band as being named "Blondie", as in this quote from the No Exit tour book: Born in Miami, Florida, Harry was adopted as an infant and raised in Hawthorne, New Jersey. After college she worked various jobs—as a dancer, a Playboy Bunny, and a secretary (including at the BBC in New York)—before her breakthrough in the music industry. She co-formed Blondie in 1974 in New York City. The band released its eponymous debut studio album in 1976 and released three more studio albums between then and 1979, including Parallel Lines, which spawned six singles, including " Heart of Glass". Their fifth studio album, Autoamerican (1980), spawned such hits as a cover of " The Tide Is High", and " Rapture", which is considered the first rap song to chart at number one in the United States. [1] The Jeffrey Lee Pierce Sessions Project - The Journey is Long". Glitterhouse Records . Retrieved March 30, 2012. a b "Debbie Harry: 'Sex is what makes everything happen' ". The Irish Times . Retrieved October 28, 2019.

Mikkelson, Barbara (May 14, 2007). " 'Call Me' Disbelieving, Blondie". Snopes.com . Retrieved December 4, 2013. Harry said of her relationship with Warhol, "I think the best thing [Andy Warhol] taught me was always to be open to new things, new music, new style, new bands, new technology and just go with it. Never get mired in the past and always accept new things whatever age you are." [32] 1981–1996: Solo work and acting [ edit ] Sullivan, Caroline (May 23, 2011). "Debbie Harry: 'I'm sort of a cult figure' ". The Guardian . Retrieved August 15, 2017. Green, Penelope (September 28, 2019). "The Tide Is High (Really), but Debbie Harry Is Staying Put". The New York Times . Retrieved October 28, 2019.Hip-Hop Week: DJ Kool Herc / Grandmaster Flash". Fresh Air (Podcast). NPR. August 28, 2023. Event occurs at 33:00. Furdyk, Brent (August 3, 2019). "Blondie Singer Debbie Harry Details Horrifying Sexual Assault In The 1970s". Entertainment Tonight. Archived from the original on August 7, 2019. Solis, Jorge (March 11, 2020). "Blondie's Debbie Harry Sets The Record Straight About Her Connection to Ted Bundy". Newsweek. I wasn’t making a new wave album,” said producer Mike Chapman, of Parallel Lines, “I was making a pop album.” Nowhere is that clearer than on the effortlessly commercial Sunday Girl: teen romance lyrics, the irresistible sweetness of its melody given a hint of toughness by Harry’s vocal. 10. One Way Or Another (1978) Blondie reformation and solo output [ edit ] Harry performing with Blondie at Roskilde Festival, 1999