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Debbie Harry

lines on the record: 49
first: 2011-05-22
most recent: 2011-05-22
sittings or episodes: 1
sources: podcast

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“Like either from Nina Rhoda or Mauler. Depends on whether I want to be sad or happy I think maybe I would take the mauler.”
2011-05-22 · Desert Island Discs · Debbie Harry · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Oh no. I mean, do I get the full length version of these things or do I only get the two minute version? No, you do. I'll have to take one of the longer pieces.”
2011-05-22 · Desert Island Discs · Debbie Harry · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Oh, I see. Well, there are a lot of stories in there. Hm. I can have another book That's horrible. I don't know if I can choose. I don't know if I can choose.”
2011-05-22 · Desert Island Discs · Debbie Harry · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Ah, this is the music by Mauler from Death in Venice, which I find so moving and so beautiful, just incredible, just incredible.”
2011-05-22 · Desert Island Discs · Debbie Harry · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“All on your own with, of course, your music. I demand to know if I'm going to have solar-powered batteries for my equipment”
2011-05-22 · Desert Island Discs · Debbie Harry · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Sometimes sometimes I guess it never struck me as being part of survival and I think for many people it is a way of surviving.”
2011-05-22 · Desert Island Discs · Debbie Harry · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Oh, sure Yeah, I think, you know, surviving is a happy ending and I mean, what an unpredictable The way things happen. I mean It's fantastic I don't know what to say. I seem to have a lot of god children. People think that I'm a good godmother, but you know I'm totally not religious.”
2011-05-22 · Desert Island Discs · Debbie Harry · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, no, that was when Chris was in hospital and I was out buying some ice cream. It was easy for him to swallow, and of course very easy for me to swallow.”
2011-05-22 · Desert Island Discs · Debbie Harry · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“We're going to hear talk to me from Peaches. whom I also think is a Terrific entertainer, very talented person, and greatly overlooked.”
2011-05-22 · Desert Island Discs · Debbie Harry · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Quite a while quite a while yeah I think that his brain was always working I mean, we still had some laughs and stuff like that. It wasn't completely horrible. I mean, it was just very, very hard physically”
2011-05-22 · Desert Island Discs · Debbie Harry · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, yeah, that's what I was told. I was told that it was terminal and there was no cure for it, so that was kind of awful. But that was bad information.”
2011-05-22 · Desert Island Discs · Debbie Harry · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I know, but that's what I mean. I'm not really totally like that. I really felt like Chris and I were like a team, and I really had no inclination to go on. I really didn't. I just didn't envision myself as a solo artist. I never really wanted to be a solo artist, actually. I always wanted to be a I always did, yeah.”
2011-05-22 · Desert Island Discs · Debbie Harry · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I guess it was in about nineteen oh eighty three or eighty four something like that. He too was when the band broke up. I don't know, it's in that, you know, early eighties period God, everything just collapsed. It just collapsed. We had no management, we had no label. Chris got very sick. Just everything collapsed.”
2011-05-22 · Desert Island Discs · Debbie Harry · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“No, I don't think so I think that we've always felt that we didn't get compensated according to how many things that we sold. We had a very bad experience with a business manager who, unfortunately, you know, convinced us that instead of paying taxes, taking money and investing it in something that, you know, was really the right thing to do. And so we followed his advice, and it was totally the wrong thing to do. So just put us in tax hell for a long time.”
2011-05-22 · Desert Island Discs · Debbie Harry · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I think we're going to hear something from eight and a half film by Frederico Fellini The Music is from Nino Rota, who I've always liked a lot of these songs are very visual to me, and I like that.”
2011-05-22 · Desert Island Discs · Debbie Harry · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, you know, it was beautiful. I looked like a snake skin, you know, and it moved and it was really pretty. I was up on stage and doing this great set and everybody was out of their minds and celebrating and the hands were reaching out of the audience and running down my razor blade dress and I was sort of thinking oh my god oh my god and then the lights went out and the sound went off and the electricity went off but the hands were still you know caressing my dress and going up down my legs and it was just this great moment you know and then the lights and the music came back gone and I went back into the song and it was just just a really exciting moment very visual”
2011-05-22 · Desert Island Discs · Debbie Harry · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I like audiences, I remember one especially really fun one was in New Orleans, it was at this club and I had on this dress that was made of razor blades double edged”
2011-05-22 · Desert Island Discs · Debbie Harry · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Oh, yeah, then later on I completely burnt it off my head, but you know, I'm just kidding. I think I've enjoyed, you know, a certain freedom, as I said, you know, I grew up in a different time and there was, you know, more freedom for making bad mistakes, perhaps.”
2011-05-22 · Desert Island Discs · Debbie Harry · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Clearly, I mean we had called it blondie, I had to have the blonde hair. And you know, I worked in a salon for a while, so I mean Bleach was easily available.”
2011-05-22 · Desert Island Discs · Debbie Harry · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, I mean I always said that, you know I wanted to be a movie star basically. You know, it seemed like well gee, that must be great, you know, to be a star, you know.”
2011-05-22 · Desert Island Discs · Debbie Harry · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I think people were more broad minded in those days. I mean, you know, we wanted to reach people. I wanted to entertain people.”
2011-05-22 · Desert Island Discs · Debbie Harry · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I was an idiot and I had no concept of I mean I felt oh I wish that I was younger but I don't know I was one of those idiots who thought they were going to live forever”
2011-05-22 · Desert Island Discs · Debbie Harry · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Perhaps I think at that particular time there was no money involved, nobody was interested in us. It was a clubhouse really very insulated and isolated, and Chris and I both have sort of said, you know, reflecting on that, that it was kind of ideal, you know, to get your ship together and, you know, to have that period of not being exposed”
2011-05-22 · Desert Island Discs · Debbie Harry · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Who's a biker bar to start with? And it was pretty funky. You could go there and act up a little bit and not be thrown out, you know. You'd have to act up a lot. Get thrown out.”
2011-05-22 · Desert Island Discs · Debbie Harry · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I was on stage doing a little trio thing called a stilettos, and Chris was in the audience, and I felt like I could really deliver.”
2011-05-22 · Desert Island Discs · Debbie Harry · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I don't know why I really considered it the darker side of life I felt like it was part of what was going on. It was pretty fun, you know there was bands everywhere and you know colorful clothing and it just suited me.”
2011-05-22 · Desert Island Discs · Debbie Harry · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I don't think that I was actually doing that at that time, but Daglo, you know, posters and t-shirts and, you know, like the usual crap that people saw now.”
2011-05-22 · Desert Island Discs · Debbie Harry · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I know I love Lorid and I love the velvet underground and I think it was one of the first bands that I saw in New York. I was completely flabbergasted and knocked out by it and actually Nico was singing with him that night and Andy Warhol had designed the stage set and the colors and I think he was responsible for the lights too and it was just an incredible show and just brings back good memories.”
2011-05-22 · Desert Island Discs · Debbie Harry · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I think my mother would have had me in little sort of Peter Pan collars and pleated skirts and I went for black sheaths and big hair and white lipstick, you know, as extreme in the opposite as I could possibly get.”
2011-05-22 · Desert Island Discs · Debbie Harry · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Mostly it was about style for me. I don't think that I was ever truly totally obnoxiously disobedient or disrespectful to my parents. I liked them as people, but I certainly went, you know, for my own look.”
2011-05-22 · Desert Island Discs · Debbie Harry · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, just walk around, you know, just get the vibe, just check out different neighborhoods. The village was very interesting to me with the coffee shops and the beats and everything. You know, I knew that there were artists there. I knew that that's really what I wanted to be.”
2011-05-22 · Desert Island Discs · Debbie Harry · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Very young, you know, four or five years old My grandmother and my mother would take me into the city to either go shopping or to go to the Christmas show or the Easter show just to sort of be a tourist.”
2011-05-22 · Desert Island Discs · Debbie Harry · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Oh yeah, I think so. I mean it's carefree or care less or whatever. For me it turned into not so much fun. you know which I think you know for most people it does it just wears thin”
2011-05-22 · Desert Island Discs · Debbie Harry · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“All feel a bit better. Okay. Oh, we're going to hear Mary making at my place Calvin Harris. It just moves along. It's a great feeling. Dancing or driving or whatever. It's nice.”
2011-05-22 · Desert Island Discs · Debbie Harry · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Oh I guess everything that was on the radio, mostly radio, I had my head practically in the speaker. The speaker was about this big in there listening to this music.”
2011-05-22 · Desert Island Discs · Debbie Harry · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I don't think that they really knew Jack about the music business because of that, you know, they were sort of worried that, you know, I was going to feel disillusioned and crushed and everything. Quite possibly I would have. But my mother, I think, always envisioned me having a life very similar to hers, you know, marriage and family.”
2011-05-22 · Desert Island Discs · Debbie Harry · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I did look her up and I think she was quite old at the time, so I think that she had made a resolution within herself that, you know, let the past lie. I don't think she really wanted to and at that point I really didn't need that information. I was already successful with Blondie. It wasn't like I was searching or desperate or anything like that.”
2011-05-22 · Desert Island Discs · Debbie Harry · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I think that comes from separation. with my mother and I was with my mother for a while my natural mother, and I think that that was just. One of those things that's an animal thing.”
2011-05-22 · Desert Island Discs · Debbie Harry · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I think they felt that since I was somebody else, you know, I wasn't theirs and also the first child, you know, they had to be really good parents, you know how that is. I think by the time my sister came along that they were a little bit more relaxed.”
2011-05-22 · Desert Island Discs · Debbie Harry · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I guess I was a little bit worried, you know, but then I became fascinated with her and she was such a funny little thing.”
2011-05-22 · Desert Island Discs · Debbie Harry · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, I've chosen Nina Simone doing strange fruit. You know, she came through the sixties and lived through the fifties and all that. So she was a woman who really knew about that and musically why I chose it was because I really love her left hand and the way she plays and I've always felt that, you know, the way that she plays piano and the way that she sings are really I don't want to use the word but I have to integrate it.”
2011-05-22 · Desert Island Discs · Debbie Harry · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I think I had the confidence of doing, you know, what I wanted to do. I don't know if I was completely confident about being a performer, sometimes facing an audience is not easy, and I think that we were sort of thrown into a lot of situations that maybe we weren't especially ready for. But are you ever ready? I mean,”
2011-05-22 · Desert Island Discs · Debbie Harry · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, I'll tell you what happened with that. We had a manager at the time who we were sort of at war with, and I really, you know, had a lot of problems with on a personal level. And he chose that picture. because he was pissed off at me, because there was a lot of other shots where I was smiling, but he chose that one.”
2011-05-22 · Desert Island Discs · Debbie Harry · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“In a way, I think it was a sign of the times I don't really claim that, you know, I invented it. It just sort of evolved. We had burned our bras and, you know, it just went on from there. I felt you know women should not portray themselves as victims. We were counterculture of the period. I guess it was just, you know, the right time, the right place, the right thing, you know.”
2011-05-22 · Desert Island Discs · Debbie Harry · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I love Beth's voice in a record it's different because they've done, you know, overdubs and more tracks, but live they open for us at a festival. Just the two musicians and Beth, you know, it was fantastic. Fantastic. It's a funny way to make ends me when the lights are out on every street. It feels alright, but never complete.”
2011-05-22 · Desert Island Discs · Debbie Harry · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Sure, it sits hard, I mean,'cause regardless of, you know, what I say about trying to be better at what I do, I rely on looks a lot, you know. And, you know, I mean, women women's calling cards, unfortunately, are based on their looks many, many times. As far as aging goes, it's, you know, it's rough. I try my best now. I really am healthy and I exercise like a fiend and do all that stuff that, you know, recovered drug addicts do. But I guess I appreciate life more, you know. I have a better perspective and I'm glad that I've had all the sort of radical experiences in my life, you know, that suits me.”
2011-05-22 · Desert Island Discs · Debbie Harry · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Oh, I'm wearing a pair of strange tights that are striped black and white stripes on the thighs and then black, solid black on the calves and a sheer black top with little embroidered flowers and then an over blouse that has sort of paisley things swimming on it.”
2011-05-22 · Desert Island Discs · Debbie Harry · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Because I feel that I'm better at it. I guess I just get more out of it, you know, and I keep learning things. I mean, what more could you ask for in a job?”
2011-05-22 · Desert Island Discs · Debbie Harry · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I think I knew that there was more to life than what I grew up with and had a natural inclination for extremes. You know, my dad used to always say to me You're up here or you're down there, you know you must level out. I don't think that I had you know extreme mood swings or that kind of thing, but I have a lot of sensitivity and I appreciated going there.”
2011-05-22 · Desert Island Discs · Debbie Harry · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source