Face It: A Memoir

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We are torn between instinctiveness and sensuality on one side, and, on the other, in its opposite, in rationality of which man is only capable to a certain limit. Elsewhere, there are forays into film – she played a neglected wife in Marcus Reichert’s Union City, and Velma Von Tussle in John Waters’s Hairspray.

Unfortunately, after getting off to such a good start, Debbie occasionally lost her train of thought, and her tight chronological format unraveled, and she started to insert odd little antidotes and wandering off course, playing around with timelines, which is something that rarely works for me with a biography or memoir. Their early struggling years, and rock and punk and art world friends are a Who's Who of Andy Warhol's 'Interview' and the Bowery/East Village scene, CBGB's in particular. Humility, false modesty or refusal of a self that she did not want to find or rediscover, know or recognize, with perhaps the fear of reduced freedom as well as an impediment to entertainment, a complex mix of all that? I get the feeling that music was very much a sideshow to the wild ride of being a frontwoman for such a popular band.

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She was and is one of the most recognizable stars in the world and makes no apologies about taking advantage of her looks throughout her career. What I got was a book with uninteresting random facts that had no bearing on Blondie and a bunch of weird fan art. A wild ride of fame, friendships, music, and drugs sure to appeal to Blondie fans and 1970s rock in general.It explores her successful acting career (she has starred in over 30 film roles, including David Cronenberg’s Videodrome and John Waters’s Hairspray), her weekends with William S. She and Stein were keen to re-make the 1965 film Alphaville, and even bought the rights from its director Jean-Luc Godard for a thousand dollars. Her tales of life before, during, after, and beyond her time with Blondie are intermixed with interludes that capture the eclectic and electric passion she has for the creative process.

The music, which merged punk rock with pop sensibilities, is only part of the picture; having been awarded the title “best-looking girl” in her school yearbook, Harry knew the value of her attractiveness early on, and later created an industry around her image. I think Debbie has lived quite a colorful life and deserves her place in music history and as a pop culture icon.It’s a shame that Harry passes up the chance to dig deeper into her experiences of objectification and the nature of fame, but more disappointing is that we learn so little about her interior life, and how she really thinks and feels. They were never as loud and fast as the Ramones or as influential as Patti Smith, but their music was irresistible. It's the story of one person's journey through life, something that we all have in common, and the path it leads you down.