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... Platinum Blonde is the title of a portrait of Debbie Harry written by Cathay Che. It was written with Harry's full co-operation and when published in 1999 it was actually the first official book that had been published on the woman, which I quite find incredible considering today's current ... Read review

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Deborah Harry : Platinum Blonde - Cathay Che

Deborah Harry : Platinum Blonde - Cathay Che

As the lady once said herself, Deborah Harry is far more famous than she is successful. ... more

The two or three years of Blondie's pop supremacy
as the 70s turned into the  80s can hardly account
for her enduring stardom, so effortlessly revived
when  Maria, their comeback single, barnstormed to
the top of the charts in early 1999.  It seems a
good moment then to take a second look at Deborah
Harry, and to peel away  that multitalented
peroxide persona--in Cathay Che's words, "a 50s
bad girl, a 60s hippy, a  70s punk, an 80s pop
star and a 90s post-modern artist." Harry has
already told her own  story in Making  Tracks,
written with Victor Bockris, so Che presents only
a rather pre-emptory  account of her career,
useful as a corrective for some of Harry's more
sweeping claims,  interspersed with some
good-natured interviews with Harry and her
ex-partner Chris Stein.  Her portrait comes into
its own in the thoughtful essays (based on
interviews with the likes  of RuPaul, John Waters
et al) on Harry as icon and wannabe, in which Che
places her  heroine back in the bohemian, often
gay, artistic and intellectual circles which
spawned  her, and which make far more sense of the
"Blondie" creation than a purely pop/rock 
genealogy. With a filmography and exhaustive
discography, this may look like a book for  fans,
but it's also an honest attempt to understand the
making of a real and lasting icon. -- Alan Stewart


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Platinum Blonde - A portrait of Deborah Harry

Advantages: Interesting story
Disadvantages: Not always in chronological order

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Platinum Blonde is the title of a portrait of Debbie Harry written by Cathay Che. It was written with Harry's full co-operation and when published in 1999 it was actually the first official book that had been published on the woman, which I quite find incredible considering today's current climate where flash in the pan celebrities from reality game shows have their own biographies and autobiographies and some footballers ...
...of performers.

Platinum Blonde is the frank story of Debbie's rise to fame and draws heavily on the only Blondie biography that was ever written in 1981, "Making Tracks - The rise of Blondie. There are plenty of quotes from this book but this time around these quotes are analysed and elaborated upon by Harry in a reflective way that wasn't possible at the peak of the band's fame. It is quickly evident that even when this book ... more

micksheff 28.02.2008 (28.02.2008)
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