Debbie Harry on punk, refusing to retire and sex at 69
Forty years after Blondie found fame on the New York scene, Debbie Harry is still waving the flag for women in the music business � of every age Debbie Harry at 69: 'You have to keep new influences coming in' Photo: MIKE MCGREGOR In 1980, during a tour with Blondie, Debbie Harry hosted a tea party at a London hotel, gathering together many of the women prominent in music at the time. Chrissie Hynde was there; Siouxsie Sioux ; the Slits guitarist Viv Albertine ; Pauline Black from The Selecter; and Poly Styrene from X-Ray Spex. Chris Stein, Harry�s boyfriend at the time as well as the other half of Blondie�s creative core, published pictures of it in his recent book Negative, a collection of his photographs from the early years of their fame. It looks as though there was a lot of laughter. This was a different time for women in music. Two years earlier Kate Bush , who was invited to tea but didn�t make it, had become the first female solo performer to reach numbe...