Debbie Harry

‘I was saying things in songs that female singers didn’t really say back then. I wasn’t submissive or begging him to come back, I was kicking his ass, kicking him out, kicking my own ass too. My Blondie character was an inflatable doll but with a dark, provocative, aggressive side. I was playing it up, yet I was very serious.’...

When the visual artist H.R. Giger, best known for his biomechanical creature and set design for the seminal 1979 sci-fi-horror film Alien, encountered Debbie Harry, the punk icon and lead singer of the globally successful New Wave band Blondie, the results were sublime. With photographs and words by Chris Stein, Harry's long-term collaborator, artefacts and sketches from the Giger archive,...