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Debravation
''Debravation'' is the fourth solo album by American singer Deborah Harry, released in July 19, 1993. It was the final album Harry made whilst signed to the Chrysalis label, thus ending a successful partnership that began with her time as a member of Blondie and had endured for over 15 years. The album reached No. 24 in the UK Albums Chart. The US version of the album contains two additional tracks, including "My Last Date (With You)", which features instrumental backing from R.E.M. ''Debravation'' was re-issued in 2005 by Wounded Bird Records. Background Speaking of the album, Harry told ''Melody Maker'' in 1993, "The album I originally wanted to make was quite different from the one that came out in the end. There were lots of people involved in producing and arranging it and it became perhaps a bit too polished. It was supposed to be a lot more raw. It's come out kind of interesting, though." Single releases The first single from the album was the dance track " I Can S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Strike Me Pink
"Strike Me Pink" is a song by American singer-songwriter Debbie Harry, released in 1993 as the second single from her fourth solo album, ''Debravation'' (1993). The song was written by Harry, Anne Dudley and Jonathan Bernstein, and produced by Dudley. Song information "Strike Me Pink" peaked at #46 on the UK Singles Chart in September 1993, and #136 on the Australian ARIA singles chart. The accompanying promo video for the single was controversial because it depicted Harry watching a man drown in a tank. The video was banned from several music television channels. The single also marked Harry's final release with Chrysalis Records and the end of her long tenure with the company (she had originally signed with Chrysalis in the mid 1970s as part of Blondie). This would also be Harry's last solo single for fourteen years until she released " Two Times Blue" in 2007. Critical reception In a review of ''Debravation'', ''The Advocate'' selected "Strike Me Pink" as "the best cut by f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Debbie Harry
Deborah Ann Harry (born Angela Trimble, July 1, 1945) is an American singer, songwriter and actress, best known as the lead vocalist of the band Blondie (band), Blondie. Four of her songs with the band reached on the US charts between 1979 and 1981. Born in Miami, Florida, Harry was adopted as an infant and raised in Hawthorne, New Jersey. After college she worked various jobs—as a dancer, a Playboy Bunny, and a secretary (including at the BBC in New York)—before her breakthrough in the music industry. She co-formed Blondie in 1974 in New York City. The band released its Blondie (album), eponymous debut studio album in 1976 and released three more studio albums between then and 1979, including ''Parallel Lines'', which spawned six singles, including "Heart of Glass (song), Heart of Glass". Their fifth studio album, ''Autoamerican'' (1980), produced hits including a cover of "The Tide Is High", and "Rapture (Blondie song), Rapture", which is considered the first rap song to ch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Deborah Harry Collection
''Deborah Harry Collection'' is a compilation album of recordings by Deborah Harry, released by Dutch budget price label Disky Communications in 1998. ''Deborah Harry Collection'' was re-issued with new artwork by EMI EMI Group Limited (formerly EMI Group plc until 2007; originally an initialism for Electric and Musical Industries, also referred to as EMI Records or simply EMI) was a British transnational conglomerate founded in March 1931 in London. At t ...'s mid-price label EMI Gold under the title ''French Kissin' - The Collection'' in 2004. Track listing References Debbie Harry albums 1998 compilation albums {{1980s-pop-album-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
I Can See Clearly
"I Can See Clearly" is a song by American singer Debbie Harry, released in June 1993 as the first single from her fourth solo album, ''Debravation'' (1993). Release After taking a brief hiatus from her solo music career, Harry released the track as the first single from her fourth solo album, ''Debravation'', on June 21, 1993. The single brought her back the attention of US Dance Clubs and peaked at number two on the US ''Billboard'' Dance Club Play chart. It was also a moderate success in the United Kingdom, where it reached number 23 in July 1993. The single also peaked at number 96 on the Australian ARIA Singles Chart in September 1993. Critical reception Ian McCann from ''NME'' wrote that "the '70s answer to Virginia Bottomley returns with a record in several bizarre mixes, none of which seem like a hit." He added that, although the song is "duller than a-day old turd", "the voice that adolescent boys once swooned for is still perfectly intact". Adam Higginbotham from '' Sel ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jon Astley
Jon Astley (born 1951) is a British record producer and mastering engineer. He is best known for his co-production work with Glyn Johns on the Who's eighth studio album ''Who Are You'' (1978), and later remastering supervision for all of the group's back catalogue reissues. He also has produced albums for Eric Clapton, Barclay James Harvest, Corey Hart (singer), Corey Hart, and Debbie Harry, Deborah Harry and has mastered records for the Who, ABBA, George Harrison, Tori Amos, Eric Clapton, the Rolling Stones, the Pretty Things, Jools Holland, Tom Jones (singer), Tom Jones, Judas Priest, Cloven Hoof (band), Cloven Hoof, Emmylou Harris, Ella Guru, Damien Dempsey, Tears for Fears, Led Zeppelin, Hothouse Flowers, Level 42, the Boomtown Rats, John Mayall, Marilyn Martin, Toto (band), Toto, Norah Jones, Stereophonics, KT Tunstall, Van Morrison, Paul McCartney, Peter Gabriel, Slade, Sting (musician), Sting, Bono, Starlite Campbell Band and Anathema (band), Anathema. Astley also recorded ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blondie (band)
Blondie is an American Rock music, rock band formed in New York City in 1974 by singer Debbie Harry and guitarist Chris Stein. The band was a pioneer in the American New wave music, new wave genre and scene of the mid-1970s. The band's first two albums also contained strong elements of Punk rock, punk. Although successful in the UK and Australia, Blondie was regarded as an underground music, underground band in the US until the release of their critically acclaimed third album in 1978, ''Parallel Lines''. Over the next two years, the band released a string of hit singles, including "Heart of Glass (song), Heart of Glass" (US No. 1), "One Way or Another", "Dreaming (Blondie song), Dreaming", "Call Me (Blondie song), Call Me" (US No. 1), "Atomic (song), Atomic", "The Tide Is High" (US No. 1), and "Rapture (Blondie song), Rapture" (US No. 1). The band became noted for its eclectic mixture of musical styles, incorporating elements of disco, Pop music, pop, reggae, funk and early hip ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guy Pratt
Guy Adam Pratt (born 3 January 1962) is a British bassist. He has worked with artists including Pink Floyd, Roxy Music, Gary Moore, Madonna, Peter Cetera, Michael Jackson, the Smiths, Robert Palmer (singer), Robert Palmer, Echo & the Bunnymen, Tears for Fears, Icehouse (band), Icehouse, Bananarama, Iggy Pop, Tom Jones (singer), Tom Jones, Debbie Harry, Whitesnake, Womack & Womack, Kirsty MacColl, Coverdale•Page, Lemon Jelly, the Orb, All Saints (group), All Saints, Stephen Duffy, Robbie Robertson and A. R. Rahman. Pratt was a member of the Australian rock band Icehouse (band), Icehouse, a founding member of the American rock band Toy Matinee, and is currently a member of the band Nick Mason's Saucerful of Secrets. Pratt has also been an actor and worked on TV and film soundtracks, including ''Dick Tracy (1990 film), Dick Tracy'' (1990), ''Last Action Hero'' (1993), ''Hackers (film), Hackers'' (1995), ''Still Crazy'' (1998) and ''Johnny English Reborn'' (2011). In 2005 he debut ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
William Gibson
William Ford Gibson (born March 17, 1948) is an American-Canadian speculative fiction writer and essayist widely credited with pioneering the science fiction subgenre known as cyberpunk. Beginning his writing career in the late 1970s, his early works were noir, near-future stories that explored the effects of technology, cybernetics, and computer networks on humans, a "combination of Low-life, lowlife and high tech"—and helped to create an iconography for the Information Age before the ubiquity of the Internet in the 1990s. Gibson coined the term "cyberspace" for "widespread, interconnected digital technology" in his short story "Burning Chrome" (1982), and later popularized the concept in his acclaimed debut novel ''Neuromancer'' (1984). These early works of Gibson's have been credited with "renovating" science fiction literature in the 1980s. After expanding on the story in ''Neuromancer'' with two more novels (''Count Zero'' in 1986 and ''Mona Lisa Overdrive'' in 1988), t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anne Dudley
Anne Jennifer Dudley (née Beckingham; born 7 May 1956) is an English composer, keyboardist, conductor and pop musician. She was the first BBC Concert Orchestra's Composer in Association in 2001. She has worked in the classical and pop genres, as a film composer, and was one of the core members of the synth-pop band Art of Noise. In 1998, Dudley won an Oscar for Best Original Musical or Comedy Score for ''The Full Monty''. In addition to over twenty other film scores, in 2012 she served as music producer for the film version of ''Les Misérables'', also acting as arranger and composing some new additional music. Career Dudley was born in Chatham, Kent. She attended Eltham Hill Grammar School for Girls. She graduated with a master's in music from King's College London in 1978. Trained as a classical performer, she moved into the competitive commercial field as a session musician, where her professional relationship with Trevor Horn began. In 1982, Dudley contributed to the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
UK Albums Chart
The Official Albums Chart is the United Kingdom's industry-recognised national record chart for album, albums. Entries are ranked by sales and audio streaming. It was published for the first time on 22 July 1956 and is compiled every week by the Official Charts Company (OCC) on Fridays (previously Sundays). It is broadcast on BBC Radio 1 (top 5) and found on the OCC website as a Top 100 or on ''UKChartsPlus'' as a Top 200, with positions continuing until all sales have been tracked in data only available to industry insiders. However, even though number 100 was classed as a hit album (as in the case of ''The Guinness Book of British Hit Albums'') in the 1980s until January 1989, since the compilations were removed, this definition was changed to Top 75 with follow-up books such as ''The Virgin Book of British Hit Albums'' only including this data. As of 2021, Since 1983, the OCC generally provides a public charts for hits and weeks up to the Top 100. Business customers can require a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brite Side
''Brite Side'' is a 1989 song by the American singer-songwriter Deborah Harry, taken from her third solo album, '' Def, Dumb & Blonde''. The single was only released in the UK, where it peaked at #59. The song is featured prominently in the second season of the American television show '' Wiseguy'' starring Ken Wahl which featured Debbie Harry. The song was the cornerstone of the "Dead Dog Records Arc", where Harry played a singer named Diana Price who was trying to have one last hit. The song she "wrote" was "Brite Side". It was played heavily through the first two episodes of the arc ("Dead Dog Lives", "And It Comes Out Here"). Track listing ''All tracks (Deborah Harry/Chris Stein) unless otherwise noted.'' UK 7", Poster Sleeve 7" & Cassette # "Brite Side" - 4:34 # "Bugeye" - 4:06 UK 12", 12" Picture Disc & CD#1 # "Brite Side" - 4:34 # " In Love with Love" - 4:34 #*From the album ''Rockbird'' # "Bugeye" - 4:06 UK CD#2 # "Brite Side" - 4:34 # " French Kissin'" (Chuck L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rapture (Blondie Song)
"Rapture" is a song by American rock band Blondie from their fifth studio album '' Autoamerican'' (1980). Written by band members Debbie Harry and Chris Stein, and produced by Mike Chapman, the song was released as the second and final single from ''Autoamerican'' on January 12, 1981, by Chrysalis Records. Musically, "Rapture" is a combination of new wave, disco and hip hop with a rap section forming an extended coda. "Rapture" was another commercial success for the band, shipping one million copies in the United States, where it was certified Gold by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) and spent two weeks at number one on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100, their fourth and last single to reach the top. It was the first number-one single in the United States to feature rap vocals. The single also peaked at number three in Canada, and number five in Australia and the United Kingdom. Background Singer Debbie Harry and guitarist Chris Stein were friends with Brookly ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
