Face It: A Memoir

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Back in 2009, the rocker said she had cosmetic surgery to “stay in the game”, and has no regrets because she did it for “business reasons”. If you think this is a lot of column space devoted to Debbie Harry’s appearance, bear in mind that she leads with her chin: Her memoir’s titled Face It. In the early 70s, when she and Stein were coming home after a gig, a man followed them and forced them at knifepoint to let him into their apartment. Maybe for Sure", a reworked version of "Angel's Song" she'd recorded for the Rock and Rule animated film, was the fourth single released from the album in June 1990 to coincide with a UK tour (her second in six months). Sure, I knew she came up through the punk era, was there at CBGB's, was mentioned in the same breath as Patti Smith and Tom Verlaine, but I really had no idea how deeply involved she was with the people and places of that lost era--her memories of which certainly made me emotional at times.

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With Blondie, she released the group's ninth studio album, Panic of Girls, in 2011, followed by Ghosts of Download (2014). With all the grit, grime, and glory recounted in intimate detail, Face It recreates the downtown scene of 1970s New York City, where Blondie played alongside the Ramones, Television, Talking Heads, Iggy Pop and David Bowie. Harry's fifth solo album, Necessary Evil (2007), was released after she completed the True Colors World Tour. I couldn’t wait for my library to get a copy, so I listened to the audio on Scribd without the benefit of having a digital or print book to complement it- something I rarely do.Some of Blondie’s most celebrated recordings are cover versions, such as The Tide Is High or Hanging on the Telephone.

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Rex, Ziggy Stardust, and Transformer to the mix, and you had a heady musical cocktail for young listeners to imbibe (and bear in mind the legal drinking age then was 18). Even as a teenager, listening to 'Parallel Lines' over and over in a college dorm room, I got an inkling of their cool metropolitan savvy, and an odd 'queer' vibe from them (none of the band members are, though).

We get a superficial account of her childhood and her adopted family and then move to NYC in the late 60s. The contractor turned out to be a controlling stalker, the inspiration for Blondie’s 1979 hit “One Way or Another. Madonna, Courtney Love, Lady Gaga, Babes in Toyland, Bikini Kill, Shonen Knife, Sleater Kinney, Pussy Riot, Angel Olsen and countless others didn’t need to mail Debbie Harry examples of their fan art. Elizabeth Hand, a much-acclaimed novelist and essayist, offers an appraisal of Debbie Harry’s new memoir and discovers that the Blondie icon is really ’the girl next door’ who just happened to influence a legion of musical progeny. Those two albums reacquainted a generation of listeners to songs they’d heard and loved as kids — I was one of them — while providing what we’d now term a curated experience of classic garage, proto-punk and rock and roll music.

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We use your sign-up to provide content in ways you’ve consented to and improve our understanding of you. A new single, "Feel The Spin" (taken from the film Krush Groove), was released as a limited 12" single in 1985, but it was unsuccessful.However, covers of the Rolling Stones' " Wild Horses" and David Oliver's " Love TKO" exist as bootlegs. her inherent nerdiness (comics and the space program, oh my), something you would never think possible in the life of an Icon of Cool like Debbie Harry.