Deborah Harry Book

The first biography of the great female pop icon. Deborah Harry, who became one of the biggest stars of the eighties with her sensationally popular band Blondie, has returned to the spotlight with the recent Blondie album No Exit. It was she whose songs "Heart of Glass," "Sunday Girl," "Atomic," and "The Tide Is High" made her an international star, marked the end of disco, and set the stage for American new wave. Credited with the first rap hit, "Rapture," she was also a singer in a sixties hippie band, a waitress at Max's Kansas City, a Playboy Club hostess, and scenester in the company of the Ramones and the Talking Heads at CBGB. She became a mainstream star, yet her punk sensibility and esoteric interests, not to mention her close friendship with Andy Warhol, set her apart from the archetypal blond bombshell and made her name synonymous with New York cool and the intersecting worlds of punk, rock, rap, art, film, and fashion. Written with Deborah's full cooperation, Deborah Harry tells her story with the uncensored candor of a life often lived with reckless abandon. What emerges from these pages, filled with new insights from Deborah herself and from her peers, friends, and family, is a portrait of an artist whose music, sexuality, and strength "have made her a lasting influence. Madonna, Courtney Love, Spice Girls, bow down the lot of you to the powerpop queen" (The Guardian).Read More