Tag: Debbie Harry

Face It: A Memoir

Face It: A Memoir

by Debbie Harry (HarperCollins, 2019)

audiobook read by Debbie Harry (Jammer Audiobooks, 2020)

Book cover: “Face It: A Memoir” by Debbie Harry (HarperCollins, 2019); audiobook read by Debbie Harry (Jammer Audiobooks, 2020)

Like many memoirs, this focusses disproportionately on the early years—particularly the New York punk scene of the 1970s, for which Harry has a nostalgic fondness (without romanticising). Her account reveals a learn-as-you-go approach to life, reflected upon without pretence or dissembling.

Blondie: Against the Odds

Blondie: Against the Odds

by Amanda Conner & Jimmy Palmiotti; ill. Montos (Z2 Comics, 2023)

Book cover: “Blondie: Against the Odds” by Amanda Conner & Jimmy Palmiotti; ill. Montos (Z2 Comics, 2023)

A trippy graphic-novel biopic one-sixth showcasing the squalor of 1970s New York and then the early lives of Debbie Harry and Chris Stein (ignoring the other band members), and five-sixths devoted to imaginative if highly tenuous explorations of fourteen famous Blondie songs.

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