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Contents 1 Birth Name 2 Images 3 Early hits 4 Double Switch 5 Stilletoes? 6 Timeline 7 Dreadful 8 Playboy 9 Urban Myth? 10 Awards 11 Second Single from Necessary Evil (album)? 12 Address

[edit] Birth Name

in an edition of the BBC magazine "Radio Times" in an interview with Debbie Harry she states that her birth name was "Angela Trimble" however when she was adopted by the Harry family she was given the name Deborah Ann. I have amended the page twice and it has twice been deleted!!! —Preceding unsigned comment added by Nosher111 (talk • contribs) 10:56, 19 October 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Images

Let's try to find smaller images!!! lol--Elysianfields 06:14, 15 August 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Early hits

The table of hits lists only later hits, though I recall "Heart of Glass", "Denis", "Call Me", "Rapture", "In the Flesh" were all significant hits in Australia prior to of during 1981. I'm sure the band had other hits here too. Wasn't "In the Flesh" a hit in Australia before charting anywhere in the world? Any experts keen to add this sort of thing to the article? Asa01 09:13, 27 November 2005 (UTC)

OK My mistake. Those were Blondie hits and are described there. Asa01 19:15, 27 November 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Double Switch

Though not extremely significant, Debbie Harry also was in the video game Double Switch

[edit] Stilletoes?

Is Stilletoes corectly spelled? Not knowing anything about the band, I'd guess it should be "Stilettoes". 85.226.122.205 00:01, 12 January 2006 (UTC)

Stilettos. Iolakana•T 17:50, 2 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Timeline

"Launching just on the cusp of MTV," Wrong. Blondie were around several years before MTV. "Debbie Harry and Blondie put out some of the first rock music videos" Also wrong. Music videos have been around since the '60s (though were mostly simple live studio performances, at that point). (And i'm not even counting clips from movies--by which measure, the Beatles take that credit.)
—Brian Patrie 03:34, 16 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Dreadful

Another poor article, like the Blondie article. Who is writing these and think it is appropriate to make up the majority of the article with a list of "points" consisting of one of two sentences? Help this article someone please. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Paul75 (talk • contribs)

I think it's more a matter of people randomly adding one factoid at a time, alas. I'll give it a copyedit later, maybe stick it on cleanup after that. There are boatloads of music articles like this, unfortunately. --Dhartung | Talk 01:51, 9 July 2006 (UTC)

I've been trying to clear it up lately. A lot of the information I haven't been able to find a reliable source on and I may end up clearing it out. Today, I simply put all of the Blondie and Solo points together so it wasn't one big, chaotic looking timeline. If anyone can put down some of the things they know are downright untrue, I will be happy to try looking for a source and deleting it if I cannot find one, so I'm not making the mistake of deleting things just because I may be overlooking something that can be verified by someone else. Thanks. LoveLaced 20:34, 11 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Playboy

No mention of her Playboy appearances??? July 22, 2006

She didn't pose nude for Playboy, she worked briefly as a Playboy bunny in a bar before becoming famous

[edit] Urban Myth?

I don't know how it could be applied to the article, but I can't be the only person who has heard the rumor that Debbie Harry is the illegitimate daughter of Marilyn Munroe. Obviously this exists as an urban legend but is there precident to include this under trivia? The article for Jamie Lee Curtis handles the rumor connected to her in a specific way which isn't possible here, and i'm stuck for any other comparisons. Any ideas? The globetrotter 22:36, 29 March 2007 (UTC)

It's more of a personal legend.[1] --Dhartung | Talk 00:06, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

Wow, that's one heck of a leap; it was reported to me as 'fact' (obviously dismissed out of hand) but what a fantastic example of an offhand remark spiralling. Brilliant stuff, I wonder if the "When I was a little girl, I imagined I was Marilyn's daughter because I knew my parents had adopted me." is worth including under a 'quotes' heading; it does seem a little lacking that someone as wonderfully outspoken as Harry hasn't got a quotes section yet... The globetrotter 08:49, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

Articles shouldn't have sections of quotations. That's what Wikiquote is for. ShadowHalo 08:45, 3 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Awards

Debbie has never won a grammy award but has been nominated for a golden globe award. As artists go, this is extremely unfair, I agree, but such statements should not be uploaded onto wiki. 172.159.65.113 19:52, 24 September 2007 (UTC)

She has been nominated for a Golden Globe for Call Me in 1980. Never for an Oscar though. Blondie was nomniated for 2 Grammies- Video Of The Year for Eat To The Beat video and Call Me for Rock Vocal by Duo or Group. Debbiefreak989 16:50, 24 October 2007 (UTC)

For some very odd reason there is a user who insists on adding Grammy wins both here and into the Blondie (band) article. I keep my eyes on it and remove whenever I see it - hopefully others are too. - eo 16:58, 24 October 2007 (UTC)

According to www.grammy.com, she has never won a Grammy, why is it still there? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 89.110.19.248 (talk) 07:55, 26 May 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Second Single from Necessary Evil (album)?

here's the link the video for "If I Had You"[2]. the link came from Debbie's official MySpace. i was wondering if anyone had an info over whether or not this will be the second single or not?LoveLaced (talk) 21:39, 18 January 2008 (UTC)

Update! According to her official blog, her label is planning on releasing it as the second single.[3] LoveLaced (talk) 21:47, 18 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Address

Should her home address appear in the article? It's listed there now. I know if I were her I wouldn't want my home address and phone number floating around. On the other hand, it is probably listed in the phone book anyway. I only mention this because I've never seen anybody else's address on Wikipedia.

Thoughts?

Skrame (talk) 20:17, 14 February 2008 (UTC)