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On this day, 6 December 1993, American pop icon Deborah Harry played Cardiff’s St David’s Hall as part of her Debravation" Tour U.K.
Born in Miami, Florida, Harry was adopted as an infant and raised in Hawthorne, New Jersey. After attending college, she worked various jobs, including as a secretary (including at the BBC in New York), dancer, and Playboy Bunny, before breaking through in the music industry. Harry co-formed Blondie in 1974 in New York City.
The band released their eponymous debut album in 1976, and released a further three albums between then and 1979, including Parallel Lines, which spawned six singles, including "Heart of Glass". Their fifth record, Autoamerican (1980), afforded Harry and the band further attention, spawning such hits as a cover of "The Tide Is High", and "Rapture", the latter of which is considered the first rap song to chart at number one in the United States.
Harry toured the UK with Blondie bandmate Chris Stein, guitarist Peter Min, bassist Greta Brinkman, and drummer James Murphy.
The set list of the Debravation Tour featured an offbeat selection of Harry material including the previously unreleased track "Close Your Eyes" (from 1989) and "Ordinary Bummer" (from the Stein-produced Iggy Pop album Zombie Birdhouse, a track that, under the moniker Adolph's Dog, Blondie covered in 1997).
Tentative plans to record these shows and release them as a live double CD never came to fruition.
However, covers of the Rolling Stones' "Wild Horses" and David Oliver's "Love TKO" exist as bootlegs. In early 1994, Harry took the Debravation tour to the US.[40] In the UK, Harry's long tenure with Chrysalis Records also came to an end after Debravation's lackluster sales, but the label released all of Blondie's albums and Harry's KooKoo album (for the first time on CD) as remastered editions with bonus tracks.
Setlist:
Faces,
Close Your Eyes,
Rain,
Go Through It,
Love TKO,
I Can See Clearly,
Lip Service,
Strike Me Pink,
Rifle Range,
Ballad of Cookie McBride,
Memo From Turner,
Shotgun,
Shayla,
Ordinary Bummer,
Dancing Down The Moon,
Heart Of Glass,
Lovelight,
Wild Horses,
Dog Star Girl,
The Fugitive,
Call Me.
