In accordance with Debbie Harry, Blondie is presently experiencing a second of limbo.
There are plans to launch a brand new album within the fall of this yr, and Harry has additionally famous that she’s been approached a few Blondie biopic and documentary.
“They’re within the works,” the 80-year-old singer lately instructed Self-importance Truthful, “however I do not understand how a life might be summarized or given a caption. I suppose there will be one thing that is off the wall however will one way or the other work. I am completely satisfied to be doing it — it is serving to me to gather my ideas.”
However with the loss of life of drummer Clem Burke final April, issues are a bit up within the air.
“I ran right into a wall: the [2024] tour ended, Clem died, and wow. What is that this house I stay in now?” Harry stated. “I am curing — I am doing a remedy. And a part of that’s de-cluttering up my house, which is crowded with that life. I have to get some breath, get some air in there. And I wish to really feel that little spark of creativity, shock — these issues. There’s just a little tingle of that, and I hope that will likely be there for me.”
Is Blondie Retiring for Good?
Harry has toyed with the potential of retirement for over a decade.
“As for the rumors of the final tour, we have determined we’ll stay ceaselessly,” Burke stated again in 2014. “However Debbie is older than me and has hinted it could possibly be time. Clearly with out her, there is no such thing as a Blondie.”
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Talking with Self-importance Truthful, Harry spoke about her previous stage garments, indicating that she’s eliminating issues of that nature.
“I don’t have all of it,” she stated. “I do have the stage stuff and the garments I made for images and reveals — I have been cautious about that, despite the fact that it’s a pile of rags. It is in a cupboard space, as a result of I had it in my home till I couldn’t stand it anymore. However now that I am not on the highway, I’m getting good at deleting it.”
Blondie doesn’t presently have any scheduled concert events.
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