Blondie frontwoman Debbie Harry has recalled how she was as soon as surrounded onstage by a bunch of Hell’s Angels.
Talking in new interview with The Sunday Instances, the star mentioned that the incident culminated in her being dragged off stage by guitarist Chris Stein.
She mentioned: “I used to be on stage as soon as when a bunch of Hell’s Angels took it over. I stored singing away however swiftly Chris yanked me off. Everybody was apprehensive however I wasn’t. The bikers had been completely charming, they had been simply so into the music.”
Harry additionally supplied her ideas on her impending eightieth birthday later this yr. She turns 80 on July 1.
“I don’t stroll round pondering each minute, ‘Oh God, I’m going be 80 – however that’s type of how I really feel,” she added.
“My mom used to say in her head she was 25 and I’m the identical. However enthusiastic about it on a regular basis might be your downfall. And I don’t actually need the identical sort of life I did after I was youthful. I’ve finished that! That’s the great thing about ageing – you realize what it’s about. You will have it in your coronary heart and soul and your reminiscence financial institution … or does that sound like an excuse? Ought to I am going out and get together each evening?”
The band are at present engaged on a brand new album produced by John Congleton. They shared their eleventh and most up-to-date studio document, ‘Pollinator’, again in 2017. Stein had beforehand instructed followers to count on a brand new album in some unspecified time in the future this yr.
Final month, the guitarist additionally posted a black-and-white {photograph} of Congleton stress-free in a chair together with his toes up on a mixing desk with Harry standing behind him.
“With John Congleton,” Stein captioned the image. “New Blondie document subsequent yr.”
In 2022, it was revealed that Intercourse Pistols bassist Glen Matlock could be contributing to Blondie’s subsequent album. He has additionally been performing as a part of the band’s stay exhibits in recent times, together with their set at Glastonbury 2023.
Chatting with NME lately in regards to the ‘Pollinator’ follow-up, Matlock gave an replace on the place the venture was at when he recorded his components. “It was sounding good. It was all sort of heavy, a bit atonal,” he defined.
“Among the different guys within the band are youthful than me they usually attempt to be a bit extra fashionable. I simply suppose you must get the music throughout. However I’ve not heard the completed factor with Debbie [Harry]’s vocals and stuff. It’s gonna be thrilling listening to it.”
Harry instructed NME in 2021 that Blondie had been “within the technique of establishing a time period to put down some tracks” for an additional document. “We’re already 10-12 songs, however it feels too early to speak about it,” she mentioned on the time.
The singer additionally instructed us that Blondie’s twelfth album could be extra band-focused, quite than collaborative like its predecessor (save for maybe one other tune by Johnny Marr, Harry beforehand knowledgeable NME).
