{"id":803705,"date":"2020-01-31T15:19:43","date_gmt":"2020-01-31T22:19:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=946363"},"modified":"2020-01-31T15:19:43","modified_gmt":"2020-01-31T22:19:43","slug":"6-things-we-learned-in-debbie-harrys-podcast-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/6-things-we-learned-in-debbie-harrys-podcast-interview\/","title":{"rendered":"6 Things We Learned in Debbie Harry\u2019s Podcast Interview"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/01\/debbie-harry-podcast.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/blondie\/\" id=\"auto-tag_blondie\" data-tag=\"blondie\">Blondie<\/a>\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/debbie-harry\/\" id=\"auto-tag_debbie-harry\" data-tag=\"debbie-harry\">Debbie Harry<\/a> \u2014 who recently published the <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/31ou3a9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">memoir <em>Face It<\/em><\/a> \u2014 and Chris Stein stopped by our SiriusXM studio for a loose, fun chat on a recent episode of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/rolling-stone-music-now\/\" id=\"auto-tag_rolling-stone-music-now\" data-tag=\"rolling-stone-music-now\">Rolling Stone Music Now<\/a>, where they looked back on their early days and more. To hear the entire interview, press play below or download and subscribe on <a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/rolling-stone-music-now\/id1078431985?mt=2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">iTunes<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/0jCfnXfdYhwIM2I4x7SxZx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Spotify<\/a>; some highlights follow.<\/p>\n<h5> <\/h5>\n<p><strong>Harry is slightly embarrassed by \u201cDjini Judy\u201d a song she sang with her early folk-rock group, Wind in the Willows, which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=3mSx82ZMgjY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">survives via YouTube<\/a>.<\/strong><br \/>\u201cI didn\u2019t write the song!\u201d she says. \u201cDon\u2019t blame me for the song! I took the opportunity to sing it. The band was sort of like this baroque folk-rock kind of group. And it was actually started by one of my best friends from high school \u2014 her husband started the band, Paul Klein, and he wrote all the material, I believe, and originally I just started singing harmonies and backups and it was very casual. And then it &nbsp;evolved into a recording situation, but recording situations and those days was a lot different than now. So, anyway, Paul recently died, so that\u2019s the end of that.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Owto4Q473gA?version=3&amp;enablejsapi=1&amp;origin=https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com&amp;rel=1&amp;fs=1&amp;autohide=2&amp;showsearch=0&amp;showinfo=1&amp;iv_load_policy=1&amp;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p> <!-- .l-article-content__pull--left --> <\/p>\n<p><strong>The New York Dolls helped convince Blondie that success was unlikely.<\/strong><br \/>\u201cThe Dolls were really important to the whole New York scene,\u201d says Stein, \u201cbut in a kind of negative way too, because they went out and they failed. Because nobody was ready for them. So that kind of insulated the New York scene a little bit. Everybody was like, \u201cOh, well, you know, why bother? Nothing\u2019s going to happen with this ever. And maybe that was a good thing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Harry was inspired to dye her hair blonde by Marilyn Monroe \u2013 and others.<br \/><\/strong>\u201cA lot of us were very taken with the silver screen,\u201d says Harry. \u201cThe blonde image. And Marilyn, of course was prime example in those days, in the Fifties and Sixties. So I wanted to sort of bring a more cinematic image to the front of the band, which is was part of that. I think the first song that I wrote with Chris was \u201cPlatinum Blonde,\u201d and it says, \u2018Marilyn and Jeane, Jayne, Mae and Marlene.\u201d Carole Lombard and some of the earlier ones, too \u2014 it was just a very exciting image\u2026 We were working on getting a name. And I came in and said, \u201cOh, why don\u2019t we call it Blondie\u201d?\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u201cHeart of Glass\u201d wasn\u2019t really intended to be a disco song.<br \/><\/strong>\u201cWe were referencing Kraftwerk,\u201d says Stein. \u201cWe were much more thinking of the electronica aspect than the disco aspect. It was all about syncing up the rhythm machine to the Roland synthesizer.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Harry used to like to write to the beat of laundry machines.<\/strong><br \/>\u201cI used to go to the laundromat to get a pulse,\u201d she says. \u201cAnd I used to do a lot of songwriting and in the laundromat because that thing was going on \u2014 a whole room was practically vibrating.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Blondie will soon be back in the studio for a new album, and Harry is carrying around a notebook full of lyrics in her purse<\/strong>.<br \/>\u201cThe last one was a lot of outside material,\u201d says Stein. \u201cSo the next one will be more of our own stuff. We do have this really awesome Johnny Marr song he wrote for us, so let\u2019s see what happens.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Download and subscribe to our weekly podcast,&nbsp;<em>Rolling Stone Music Now<\/em>, hosted by Brian Hiatt, on&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/rolling-stone-music-now\/id1078431985?mt=2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">iTunes<\/a>&nbsp;or&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/0jCfnXfdYhwIM2I4x7SxZx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Spotify<\/a> (or wherever you get your podcasts), and check out two years worth of episodes in the archive, including in-depth, career-spanning interviews with Bruce Springsteen, Halsey, Ice Cube, Neil Young, the National, Questlove, Julian Casablancas, Sheryl Crow, Johnny Marr, Scott Weiland, Alice Cooper, Fleetwood Mac, Elvis Costello, Donald Fagen, Phil Collins, Alicia Keys, Stephen Malkmus, Sebastian Bach, the Pixies, Billy Idol, Tom Petty, Kelly Clarkson, Pete Townshend, Bob Seger, the Zombies, Gary Clark Jr. and many more \u2014 plus dozens of episodes featuring genre-spanning discussions, debates and explainers with Rolling Stone\u2019s critics and reporters. Tune in every Friday at 1 p.m. ET to hear Rolling Stone Music Now broadcast live from SiriusXM\u2019s studios on Volume, channel 106<\/p>\n<div class=\"pmc-contextual-player\">\n<h3> Popular on Rolling Stone <\/h3>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/debbie-harry-book-podcast-interview-946363\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blondie\u2019s Debbie Harry \u2014 who recently published the memoir Face It \u2014 and Chris Stein stopped by our SiriusXM studio for a loose, fun chat on a recent episode of Rolling Stone Music Now, where they looked back on their early days and more. To hear the entire interview, press play below or download and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-803705","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-24 02:47:14","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=803705"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/803705\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=803705"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=803705"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=803705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}