When punk turned into New Wave, his beer -welding masculinity also disappeared and was replaced by an androgynous elegance that gave Debbie Harry’s face and voice. Nobody was as cool as the 1.60 little New Yorker from the environment of Andy Warhol, her bleached hair so striking that her band was named after him.
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Blondie not only led the New Wave to the top of the charts, but also beat the bridge to the parallel hip -hop. One could accuse Harry that the image she shaped to the curse became for subsequent generations, but even capitalism could not undermine it alone: ”Sex Sells, that is clear to me,” she wrote in her autobiography “Face IT”, but if you already use the principle, at least on my conditions, not that of any manager. “
What would the music world be without blondie?
We hold on: Without Blondie, the New York Dolls, for whom Debbie Harry worked as a driver, was even less common before she became famous. Happy Birthday!
Text by: Thomas Winkler
