Why did it take so long for Debbie Harry to become famous?

How do you know it took so long for her to become famous if you don't even know when she first became famous?

I'm not sure how you define "so long" but she was quite famous from the latter part of the 1970s on. Heart of Glass came out in the late 70s and was a huge hit. Prior to her singing career, she was a model and even a Playmate. In the 1970s Playmates we're considered a big deal.

Rip Op to shreds!

She's been famous for about 50 years now, OP, I don't understand your complaint.

Op, why aren’t you anything yet?

Debbie first became famous at 30 to be exact.

Heart of Glass

I've never heard of her.

OP is asking a sensible question. Debbie may be the coolest rock chick ever, was a great songwriter and was stunningly beautiful. But she spent her entire 20s in obscurity.

I wish she would have become famous the age that Madonna became famous.

When she was crowned "Miss Baltimore Crabs"!

It was Miss Soft Crab that put her on the road to stardom.

Debbie spent the 70s on drugs and only peripherally focused on a "career". When the band got signed in '76, there was more focus, but also more drugs. The drugs eclipsed everything and the band imploded in '82. Debbie remained a complete mess and no record company would touch her. She cleaned up by '86, but she basically started from scratch. She lived very modest years until the Blondie reunion in 1999. Since then, the money has been rolling in.

R12, Blondie was extremely successful from the late 70's until the early 80's...

R13 Just as I said: They had something good from '76-'82. If not for the drugs they would have been even more successful. Because of the drugs they did not even tour from '80 to '82 (at the height of their fame no less), and lost ground they were never able to re-coup. Their final tour in '82 was a disaster, needing Duran Duran added to the bill to sell tickets, and it was cancelled before it was scheduled to end. Yes, Chris was sick but also very strung out prior to and through his illness which helped to further their demise.

R14, why do you think Debbie's solo career never took off? She got sober by 1986 as you said but it still never took off...

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Because there's as much interest in Debbie Harry as there is in this thread.

R24 is jealous

To me it didn’t seem like it took so long. She looked gorgeous, youthful, & fresh when she first hit it big, not long in the tooth or anything.

She still looks great!

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I blew a "straight" guy in his dorm room back in 1979. "Heart of Glass" was on the radio as I worked him over.

Blondie performed yesterday and today at Pier 17 and I swear, Debbie doesn't look a day over 77!!

Debbie was the first madonna

^Warhol himself said that. And unlike Vadge, she was actually beautiful and talented.

R12 did you make all of those lies up by yourself?

R1 because op is shit 4 brains.

While it would be unfair to compare Mad Madge and Dippy Debbie

The main reason Madge had to "reinvent" herself is because every "creation" burned a lot of bridges.... It made her successful but there were a lot of bodies left in her wake.

Debs was a social butterfly, in fact some might suggest she was less performer than a personality, a guttersnipe socialite that infilitrated the elite; Rock's version of Cinderella still capable of slumming with the plebs. . .they liked her when she was at the top and when she could no longer scale the charts. She was everywhere and yet not making herself the center of attention yet a fixture desired in the scene all the same. . .she was someone people wanted around and wanted be around. sometimes, to her detriment.

she's lifted more people up than taken down....

helped out a lot of starting bands

for as little as covering a song

Honestly, I am a little glad that her solo career didn't take off that much. If it had, her wonderful work with The Jazz Passengers probably wouldn't have happened.

The big Blondie box set comes out this Friday. I’ve ordered mine on CD and red vinyl edition.

R34 I admit it. Debbie wasn't really Miss Soft Crab, that was her character in Hairspray.

R39, which box set? I haven't heard about it