Number One

The other night I saw a documentary, part of BBC Three's or Four's or Five's or Seven's - one of the cultural BBC channels anyway- series on New York music. It was called 'Blondie : One Way or Another' and confirmed a beleif thats been growing inside me for a while, Debbie Harry was THE BEST looking woman ever.



Now Blondie are just one of those bands that have been in the back of our minds since birth with their songs being on so many radio playlists, so its easy not to see that they were actually really good. Songs like Call Me, Atomic, Heart of Glass are brilliant, they'd stand up on their own without a beautiful lead singer. Of course they used sex to sell records but Harry was much sexier fully dressed than Lady Ga Ga will ever be.

Oh and 10 years older than Ga Ga, Harry was 31 when Blondie's first album was released and 34 when the band were on the cover of Rolling Stone. Proof that form is tempory whilst class is permanent. I remember reading Anthony Keidis's (of Red Hot Chili Peppers) autobiography and he tells of trying to chat her up at a party when he was in his early twenties, only to get shot down. Iggy Pop also tells of himself and David Bowie failing when Blondie were supporting on his Idiot tour. In fact, thoughout their career Harry and Blondie Guitarist Chris Stein were 'life partners'.

So in summary: Beautiful, Sexy, Talented and Unattainable even if I was born forty years earlier. Definatly the perfect woman...