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Deborah Harry!!
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Former Playboy bunny.
She and her band "Blondie" are suing EMI, their former record label for royalties. [1999]
She and her band "Blondie" reunited and released their first album since their 1982 breakup. [1998]
Her band "Blondie" broke up. [1982]
Name of her band was originally called "Angel and the Snakes, " but she changed the name to "Blondie" after the countless cat calls from truck drivers who would yell out the window at her when she was walking down the street, "Hey! Blondie!" Lead singer and songwriter for punk rock group Blondie.
Singer/actress
Blondie's video for their hit song "Rapture" featured a cameo appearance New York artist/Andy Warhol disciple Jean-Michel Basquiat, whose life was portrayed in the Basquiat (1996).
In 1981 "Harper's Bazaar" named her to their 10 Most Beautiful Women in America list.
Has admitted to getting a face lift.
Ranked #12 on VH1's 100 Greatest Women of Rock N Roll
"Eat To The Beat", released in 1979, is an early video collection by "Blondie". The late model Gia Carangi appears in the eighth video, "Atomic".
Starred in the Broadway play "Teaneck Tanzi" with Andy Kaufman. She played a female wrestler and Kaufman played the ref. The play closed after opening day. The play was her Broadway debut.
Dyed her hair red for her role as James Woods's masochistic girlfriend in David Cronenberg's Videodrome (1983).
She and Blondie are credited, due to the rapped section of the song "Rapture" (which, among other things, name-drops Fab Five Freddy) and its graffiti-filled video, with helping to popularize hip hop music, especially among white audiences.
Blondie was inducted into the Rock And Roll Hall of Fame on March 13, 2006.
Was a good friend of Nancy Spungen.
Personal quotes
"I wish I had invented sex."
"I could be a housewife... I guess I've vacumed a couple of times."
"The only person I really believe in is me."
"I know who I am, and it would be an insult to the Harrys." - on her refusal to locate her birth parents
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