The Nice list was boring anyway! 😈📸 @chrissteinplays

Good morning everyone 🩶NME (1987) She settles more comfortably in the sofa, tucks one of her legs underneath her. So far she has done nothing to suggest she is mentally disturbed. Which is good going considering that for the last ten years or so there hasn’t been a street in the western world she’s been able to walk down unmolested. If I were her I’d be terrified. Just look at all those obscene fantasies about her in Fred and Judy Vermoral’s Starlust. And, in terms of fame, she’s got the worst part of it to come – traditionally, when a female star begins to decay men revel in it because she has been a fantasy, after all, that they have never fulfilled and therefore want to punish; women are glad because the object of their envy is being eroded. Is fame on this scale not vastly unpleasant? 🩶

Debbie showing the TV party audience how to Pogo 📺

F R I D A Y F E E L S 🖤📸 @chrissteinplays

Salt ‘n’ Pepper 🩷🩵 Dresses designed by Anya 🩵

‘Good boys never win Good boys always follow Good boys never win They all fall away and you remain’ 🎶🎸🎤🥁

Happy Friday everyone 🎲NME (1987) So the ideology of punk was tacit, then, rather than explicit? “Well, in Blondie’s case I think it was. I don’t think that we were overtly political. Only in the fact that I was part of a minority in that there were not many girls or women in music at that time. I don’t think it’s much of a statement now but I guess then it was.” And what is ‘French Kisin’ in The USA’ about? Of course, I don’t dare to ask – I know the answer anyway. It is about people in America putting their tongues into each other’s mouths. Which, when you think about it, is not very much more fatuous than most other things that pop songs are about. Debbie talks about the glamorous life, different cities she’s been in, how they differ from each other – how Las Vegas, for instance, differs from New York (the gambling, basically) – and she says “gambling is like being a drug-addict. It’s the addict’s mentality. They get this thrill and excitement of being successful and winning and then they throw it all back and they lose it – two steps forward and one step back again and again until they have nothing left and then it’s like, hhhuuurrhgh aaahuuuhg hhhhhhuuuuuh and then another rush of life hhuuuuaaah and then down again, permeating failure, it’s disgusting…” Now this is interesting. Are we, in the disguised form of ‘gambling’, really talking about drugs? For about ten minutes I plug her with every theory about gambling I can think of. We talk about ‘gamblers’ she has known. Is ‘gambling’ always addictive? “I’ve only seen a couple of gamblers that were smart about it and they followed very strict rules. They never deviated. It wasn’t like gambling. They would stop at exactly the right moment.” And what type of ‘gambling’ was this? “Blackjack.” Damn. 🎲🎲

Debbie’s ‘Union City’ Screentest 🎬🎞️

Debbie 🩶 #Queen

T H I R S T Y T H U R S D A Y 🍾🥂🍺🍻🍷🍸🥃🍹 (Not for me unfortunately back to work tomorrow after 3 months off!) #sendhelp

P O L O R O I D S 🎞️

‘Caught you turning 'round the block Fancy meeting in a smaller world After all accidents never happen Could have planned it all Precognition in my ears Accidents never happen in a perfect world Complications disappear’ 🎶🎸🎤🥁

Happy Thursday everyone 🩶NME (1987) Well Debbie. How do you feel about what you are doing now, this MOR? Surely it must feel quite different from the stuff you were doing ten years ago. “Yeah, ten years ago the atmosphere was very radical. Much more radical, I would think. But we’ve been changing a little bit all the time. A constant state of flux, and I don’t mind that so much. That’s sort of interesting. It’s better that way.” And what was your relationship with punk? Were you following something that had happened in England? “Punk started in New York. I have like proof of that from punk magazines and the whole thing – and it’s really not an argument, I really don’t care where it started – I think things like that are simultaneous, whaddaya call it, spontaneous combustion, it just happens and it’s time and that’s what happens. I think that there were certain shared attitudes. I think if we were part of that it was that we were part of the musical ideal that wanted to go back to a more melodic kind of approach to pop music and get away from these long guitar-solos, these riff-things that were really predominant in those days and got to be quite boring and preposterous because some of these guitarists were lousy, you know, DANG DANG DANG DANG so what! An interesting melody would be nice to hear. That was sorta what we were battling against. Also technology changed. We were in the midst of a technological breakthrough with the synthesizer which Blondie was really part of at a very early stage. That was really nice.” 🩶

Debbie with Graham Norton (2002) look out for flying 🍆👀

I T’ S G I V I N G 🦓 Debbie 📸 @chrissteinplays for @creemmag (1976) 🦓

OTD 48 years ago (UK) Parallel Lines was released (September 8th in U.S) 🖤🤍 number one Album for 4 weeks in UK Feb - March, my parents bought this album when I was 4 years old and I fell in love, have been ever since 🖤 Single releases: dates & chart positions (UK) 🇬🇧 (1) Picture This: August 1978, no 12 (2) Hanging on the telephone: October 1978, no 5 (3) Heart of Glass: January 1979, no 1 for 4 weeks! (4) Sunday Girl: May 1979, no 1 for 3 weeks! Here’s my signed copy by @chrissteinplays himself! Signed on the U.S release date anniversary 👌🏼

Having a bit of an afternoon chill for a change, having a read 📖 ‘I had no idea that Chris was a voyeur when I met him. How could I know? His mother told me when we met that his personality was fully intact as a tiny baby. This uniqueness, a voyeuristic infant, was jus the beginning of getting to know Chris Stein. I found a definition of voyeur: "An obsessive observer of sordid or sensational subjects." An observer, who, in Chris's case, takes photos of the things that catch his eye’. ‘I'm joking ... a bit... because he does have a good eye and it's proven by the wonderful photos he's taken over the years. Sometimes, I would follow him and take a shot of the same thing that he had just shot to try to understand his vision and point of view. This was fun and interesting but it didn't really explain how he looked at the world and what inspired him to shoot a picture’ ~ Debbie Harry #iykyk

Debbie & Chris, London (1981) 🖤📸 Anton Corbijn

‘Well I´m a gonna raise a fuss I´m a gonna raise a holler About working all summer just to, Try to earn a dollar’ 🎶🎸🎤🥁