Yet again, Debbie keeps her cool, dignified manner through the whole interview. Such class. She deserves a medal for keeping calm when these interviewers seem to want to belittle her. So much admiration for her!
This is exactly why I love her! She sat there and answered his stupid questions so politely. I cant think of any other rock star from the 70's\80's that would have tolerated that so nicely! She is wearing the same dress and hat 30 years later on rockin new years eve 2014
Yes. Deborah Harry has such gracious manners, always. Unlike Madonna who gives pricky interviewers a run for their money by actually being a bigger prick.
Debbie is so chic ! The outfit is what is in now, I wonder which one of her artist friends made this for her .The 70's and 80s in NYC 🗽 WAS A BLAST !!!DEBBIE YOU ARE A SO BEAUTIFUL AND articulate.I still have a crush on you♥️
He wasn't attacking her or the movie, it's just his style that he has used successfully with male artists too...Better than these fawning baffoons who just want to talk about banal subjects as his qs were pertinent and she also had a lot of fun on the show too.
Russell died 5 years after this interview. Videodrome is a sickly cool movie and was way a head of it's time. For some people to get what it was about was incomprehensible. In the movie she was virtual which was unheard of in the concept of a character back then.
The movie he is ridiculing in his failed attempt to diminish her is now considered one of the great cult films of all time.....the Director she praises, that he has never heard of, later became one of the leading Directors in Hollywood.....and the important and futuristic subject matter of the movie that she refers to is basically what became the World Wide Web two decades after this interview took place.....quite aside from her stunning beauty and her amazing music it's always struck me that Debbie Harry chooses to work with artists rather than well known celebrities, often collaborating with unknown musicians and up and coming directors instead of using established talent that can enhance her career in the way Madonna always did....she's always been very much ahead of the game, creating something new rather than just reacting to what's already there....the early days of the CBGBs Punk Scene, the first Rap Record to reach a white audience, the work with alternative artists like Andy Warhol and H.R.Giger....the work with new directors like David Cronenberg and Jonas Akerlund, her collaborations with then unknown singers like Shirley Manson and The Dum Dum Girls.....her decision, almost unheard of in show business, to stop working for 3 years to nurse her critically ill boyfriend back to health, the way she changed the rules for women in music in the 1970s and the way she now defies the stigma attached to older artists in music in 2016.....she is as cool as fuck and the real deal....total legend
You're right. She's very intelligent & humble. She would have to be to be able to be so gracious to people who dismiss her as being an airhead. Chris Stein is quite articulate and intelligent himself. Saw the interview of them discussing rap and the popularity of it. It's too bad artists, musicians carry the stigma of being dumb and silly when they are often far from it. Some come across as a tad bit "odd" (and some are high as a kite I'll give you that) but that doesn't mean they're stupid.
"Debbie Harry chooses to work with artists rather than well known celebrities, often collaborating with unknown musicians and up and coming directors instead of using established talent that can enhance her career in the way Madonna always did....she's always been very much ahead of the game" And therein lies the difference. Debbie is an artist. Madonna, a show-woman. Debbie's the real thing.
Debbie is so articulate! So glad she wasn't intimidated by the silly insults and laughed them off ..defending her choices in a confident way...ultra class!
I saw Blondie last week in London Still brilliant And what a refreshing change to see an artist not giving a damn about public opinion and doing what she wanted to do Bravo
Videodrome really predicted things like RUclips and Instagram where people experience others lives vicariously over the internet. Take out the horror aspect and you can see it. Even the bit with Bianca Oblivion and television for the homeless. That's internet in libraries.
She got the part in the original Blade Runner as the character Pris and turned it down because her manager told her she had to go on tour and it would be to much.
Comment te dire ce que je ressens ? face à ton sourire tellement attendrissant ! Je me noie dans ton regard, si doux et si envoûtant, chargé de douceur et d’espoir et infiniment remplie de tendresse.
I´m on a Debbie Harry binge at the moment and one of the things that strikes me is that she can deal with any kind of irritating interviewer with grace.
Agree with you about Harty. What a patronising a*hole he was to all his guests. Terrible at his job, always seemingly trying to demean and belittle his guests, most of whom were too smart for him. Debbie Harry looked very uncomfortable in his presence.
J'écouterai ta voix ta divine harmonie, Et tes rêves d'amour caché, de gloire et de génie ;Mon âme frémira comme à l'aspect des cieux... Des larmes de bonheur brilleront dans mes yeux. 🌈🌈❤️❤️🌈🌈
LOVE DEBBIE - I WAS 19 AT THE TIME I SAW THE FILM AND FOR THOSE DAYS IT WAS REALLY GORY LOL - i was on a date and actually walked out half way through lol - it made me feel sick with all the blood ......... so funny looking back ..... good times :)
And he is meant to be a national British treasure!? He is flat! Rubbish interveiwer! He pissed of grace jones so she hit him pissed of bowie for getting everything wrong and I think debbie is bored he is just boring. I'm British and he makes us look crap
+kyle smallwood Grace Jones was drugged up to her eyeballs on the show. Bowie was a very complicated person and was considered a nightmare to most interviewers in the 70s/80s. Debbie has asked Russell to hype the movie up it's good publicity. It got banned not long after in the UK then 6 months later the queues where around the corner for a while. Now it's a cult classic.
Grace Jones was a nightmare but David Bowie was not, IMO. I thought he was very hard and incredibly rude with Bowie unprovoked from the start. Bowie was having none of it and that's when things got really heated but the interviewer started it by being such an ass to him first.
Russell Harty should never have been a talk show host, he asked so many stupid questions and never showed his guests any respect. I remember when he was interviewing Grace Jones, she physically attacked Harty over his ridiculous questions and manner. Russell Harty was the late Richard Whiteley's teacher at Giggleswick School in the Yorkshire Dales. Richard was the host of the Channel 4 words and numbers quiz show "Countdown" from 1982 until his death in 2005.
I cannot believe Videodrome received such ridiculous comments - first I have ever heard. Poor Deborah, no wonder she is so Anti Establishment. Thank heavens we have moved on from this era. . I just have to edit this to say: Why did Russell Harty invite her on the show just to slag off her work!
Deborah Harry continues to be so bloody refreshing. Are there any female pop singers today who would have the slightest idea as to who Marshall McLuhan was? Otherwise, Russ Hardy is a passive-aggressive twat. (We already knew that). Debbie's classy poise carries on to 2024 . CHEERS
Her lips, natural I assume, are so ridiculous (in a fabulous way), as if they have been drawn into her face by a designer of "the perfect mouth" and no one has achieved the same look either before or since. Simply astounding.
The worst interviewer ever heard. Even worse than another one where all the interviewer asked over and over is who she had and would still like to sleep with. That was bad but this was even worse. How do these interviewers keep from getting fired or hired at all? Beyond me. I believe she has had the worst interviewers I have ever heard. She is so classy and smart, and handles them with grace and ease. Inspiring. I'll try to channel her grace the next time I encounter a rude person. PS) How inappropriate for him- a large man- to arm wrestle her- a small, petite woman. She even handled that as good as any woman could.
How bizarre that Videodrome was considered so taboo and so extreme . The same thing with Debbies first solo album KooKoo, because she had acupuncture needles in her head.
I'm with Clive Nicholas on this: Never a great fan of Russel Harty at all, crap interviewer & a token gay for the system..... Yes, she should have called him a complete knob but maybe that was the reaction he was trying to provoke.......just 'up' his sad ratings I'd say.... "Oh! He upset Debbie Harry...he must be a really 'probing' type interviewer.." Yeah right. Sorry. He was pretty crap. I don't normally speak ill of anyone, dead or alive, but the bloke was rubbish, let's be honest.
I watched this when it was broadcast and was really annoyed at how Russell Harty introduced Debbie.. 'She used to look like this'..sarcy twit..never understood why he was popular..much preferred T Wogan...
I never realised how patronising Russell Harry was when I watched him as a kid... And he is so lacking in any kind of charisma.... He doubt he would make it in TV today...
@@allancove4483 Major fail. Blondie is a group. I'm guessing you do not remember their 'Blondie Is A Group' campaign back in '78. Look it up if you are in doubt. Anyway, if Debbie Harry is Blondie then Clem Burke is Blondie, Chris Stein is Blondie, etc.
@@duffbaker9554 I know Blondie well. And the only blonde in that "group" as you call it, is Debbie Harry. How the hell do you think they got that name? Debbie Harry IS Blondie & Blondie IS Debbie Harry. So stop nitpicking over something so damn stupid, stupid.
@@JCStorm76 yeah just read that he died of Hepititus-B (kidney failure?) and that the tabloid press at the time claimed that he caught it from rent boys. Strange as I just found out that the went to QEG's grammar school in a town in which I grew up in during my junior years and that he as a teacher taught Anthony Daniels when he was a kid AKA C3PO in Star Wars.
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Yet again, Debbie keeps her cool, dignified manner through the whole interview. Such class. She deserves a medal for keeping calm when these interviewers seem to want to belittle her. So much admiration for her!
She is so incredibly down to earth🙎
Yes! And very humble and gracious. And above all, patient.
Yes, and she's cool and nice as well-the total opposite of Madonna, for example.
This is exactly why I love her! She sat there and answered his stupid questions so politely. I cant think of any other rock star from the 70's\80's that would have tolerated that so nicely! She is wearing the same dress and hat 30 years later on rockin new years eve 2014
Yes. Deborah Harry has such gracious manners, always. Unlike Madonna who gives pricky interviewers a run for their money by actually being a bigger prick.
YES, I too saw her at the new year time square gig on TV in 2014 wearing the same dress and still working it to the max.... :-)
exactly, she was and still is simply a very nice person
Debbie is so chic ! The outfit is what is in now, I wonder which one of her artist friends made this for her .The 70's and 80s in NYC 🗽 WAS A BLAST !!!DEBBIE YOU ARE A SO BEAUTIFUL AND articulate.I still have a crush on you♥️
Debbie has always been attacked so much with male interviews in the past and always been so gracious
He wasn't attacking her or the movie, it's just his style that he has used successfully with male artists too...Better than these fawning baffoons who just want to talk about banal subjects as his qs were pertinent and she also had a lot of fun on the show too.
Russell died 5 years after this interview. Videodrome is a sickly cool movie and was way a head of it's time. For some people to get what it was about was incomprehensible. In the movie she was virtual which was unheard of in the concept of a character back then.
What a gorgeous, smart and talented woman!
The movie he is ridiculing in his failed attempt to diminish her is now considered one of the great cult films of all time.....the Director she praises, that he has never heard of, later became one of the leading Directors in Hollywood.....and the important and futuristic subject matter of the movie that she refers to is basically what became the World Wide Web two decades after this interview took place.....quite aside from her stunning beauty and her amazing music it's always struck me that Debbie Harry chooses to work with artists rather than well known celebrities, often collaborating with unknown musicians and up and coming directors instead of using established talent that can enhance her career in the way Madonna always did....she's always been very much ahead of the game, creating something new rather than just reacting to what's already there....the early days of the CBGBs Punk Scene, the first Rap Record to reach a white audience, the work with alternative artists like Andy Warhol and H.R.Giger....the work with new directors like David Cronenberg and Jonas Akerlund, her collaborations with then unknown singers like Shirley Manson and The Dum Dum Girls.....her decision, almost unheard of in show business, to stop working for 3 years to nurse her critically ill boyfriend back to health, the way she changed the rules for women in music in the 1970s and the way she now defies the stigma attached to older artists in music in 2016.....she is as cool as fuck and the real deal....total legend
You're right. She's very intelligent & humble. She would have to be to be able to be so gracious to people who dismiss her as being an airhead. Chris Stein is quite articulate and intelligent himself. Saw the interview of them discussing rap and the popularity of it. It's too bad artists, musicians carry the stigma of being dumb and silly when they are often far from it. Some come across as a tad bit "odd" (and some are high as a kite I'll give you that) but that doesn't mean they're stupid.
Redcrop Uk so very well said!
"Debbie Harry chooses to work with artists rather than well known celebrities, often collaborating with unknown musicians and up and coming directors instead of using established talent that can enhance her career in the way Madonna always did....she's always been very much ahead of the game"
And therein lies the difference. Debbie is an artist. Madonna, a show-woman.
Debbie's the real thing.
Redcrop Uk could not have said this better myself spot on
Not the first rap record to "reach a white audience" . I believe that you phrased that incorrectly. Otherwise you are just plain wrong .
Debbie is so articulate! So glad she wasn't intimidated by the silly insults and laughed them off ..defending her choices in a confident way...ultra class!
What insults...a quality interviewer not having to be guided by a Woke culture.
always ahead of her time, so often misunderstood. greatest human that ever walked this earth.
I saw Blondie last week in London
Still brilliant
And what a refreshing change to see an artist not giving a damn about public opinion and doing what she wanted to do
Bravo
so glad russell harty's career has ended and blondie still rocking and rolling. Way to go blondie
Debbie is a Jersey girl that never wavered from her true self .... humble, straightforward, clear thinking and charming.
Debbie’s always so straightforward, self-assured, and has interesting things to say.
Debbie is brilliant here
This Was Great Interview With Debbie Harry Singer🎤Of”Blondie”Being Herself With Her Naturally Great Personality As Always Being Very Talented
Debbie handled this really well.
very sad Debbie had not done too much movies .She is so gorgeous and REALLY beautiful :others so called actresses are VERY behind her SUBLIME!
She is gorgeous, he is ugly,
She is all fun, he is so f. boring,
What a beautiful pearl
Debbie did not rise to the bait, so so gracious.
Deborah looks SO stunning **** That design on her hat and outfit is STUNNNNING!
Песни Блонди возвращают меня в молодость. Дебби просто восхитительна . Очаровашка !!!
Дебби Супер!!!
Deborah is Painfully Gorgeous...
Videodrome really predicted things like RUclips and Instagram where people experience others lives vicariously over the internet. Take out the horror aspect and you can see it. Even the bit with Bianca Oblivion and television for the homeless. That's internet in libraries.
She is beautiful, talented, intelligent. He is the exact opposite.
Very unprofessional and rude interviewer. Debbie was so gracious.
What an ordeal..torture for Debbie. Mundane questions galore.
What a missed opportunity to have a serious discussion about her music and life. I never realised how supercilious and condescending R.H was.
Blondie a Diva da música Internacional de todos os tempos
She got the part in the original Blade Runner as the character Pris and turned it down because her manager told her she had to go on tour and it would be to much.
It’s such a good film.
Comment te dire ce que je ressens ? face à ton sourire tellement attendrissant ! Je me noie dans ton regard, si doux et si envoûtant, chargé de douceur et d’espoir et infiniment remplie de tendresse.
a modern day goddess..such beauty and wisdom combined
I'm pretty sure that outfit is a Keith Haring design. Forgot how badly she got ripped for Videodrome.
You’re not gonna rock this lady, she’s gonna rock you!
Harty has a very patronising manner about him, neverliked him.. Debbie handles this interview well considering how awful he is.
I´m on a Debbie Harry binge at the moment and one of the things that strikes me is that she can deal with any kind of irritating interviewer with grace.
Agree with you about Harty. What a patronising a*hole he was to all his guests. Terrible at his job, always seemingly trying to demean and belittle his guests, most of whom were too smart for him. Debbie Harry looked very uncomfortable in his presence.
I wonder what he thought of Saw & Hostel.
Chris stein was one lucky guy back then to be dating the most gorgeous woman on the planet.
Not really. He was close to death with a serious skin disease.
J'écouterai ta voix ta divine harmonie, Et tes rêves d'amour caché, de gloire et de génie ;Mon âme frémira comme à l'aspect des cieux...
Des larmes de bonheur brilleront dans mes yeux.
🌈🌈❤️❤️🌈🌈
It’s like this guy is wanting Ms. Harry to hate the movie as much as he does. What a fool!
LOVE DEBBIE - I WAS 19 AT THE TIME I SAW THE FILM AND FOR THOSE DAYS IT WAS REALLY GORY LOL - i was on a date and actually walked out half way through lol - it made me feel sick with all the blood ......... so funny looking back ..... good times :)
A cantora Debbie Harry a Diva da música Pop Rock Internacional
Beauty lady Debbie big VOICE
it looks (and sounds) like 1975 meeting 1991 in person
My God she is beautiful.
And he is meant to be a national British treasure!? He is flat! Rubbish interveiwer! He pissed of grace jones so she hit him pissed of bowie for getting everything wrong and I think debbie is bored he is just boring. I'm British and he makes us look crap
+kyle smallwood Grace Jones was drugged up to her eyeballs on the show. Bowie was a very complicated person and was considered a nightmare to most interviewers in the 70s/80s. Debbie has asked Russell to hype the movie up it's good publicity. It got banned not long after in the UK then 6 months later the queues where around the corner for a while. Now it's a cult classic.
Grace Jones was a nightmare but David Bowie was not, IMO. I thought he was very hard and incredibly rude with Bowie unprovoked from the start. Bowie was having none of it and that's when things got really heated but the interviewer started it by being such an ass to him first.
65rowan - and Russell harty was a cunt...
She seems like she wants to get out of there. I never heard her laugh like that before. It's such a cute laugh.
One of the many endearing things about Debbie is her SMILE and her little laugh.
Interesting outfit Deb?! But that interviewer is a major TOOL..
Videodrome is a great flick😎✌🏽☮️🎸
Debbie Harry is Queen of Cool. Interviewer might have been a bit of a dork. Critics never understood her.
Russell Harty should never have been a talk show host, he asked so many stupid questions and never showed his guests any respect. I remember when he was interviewing Grace Jones, she physically attacked Harty over his ridiculous questions and manner. Russell Harty was the late Richard Whiteley's teacher at Giggleswick School in the Yorkshire Dales. Richard was the host of the Channel 4 words and numbers quiz show "Countdown" from 1982 until his death in 2005.
You refer to Grace Jones as she,well in my opinion its a he.
I cannot believe Videodrome received such ridiculous comments - first I have ever heard. Poor Deborah, no wonder she is so Anti Establishment. Thank heavens we have moved on from this era. . I just have to edit this to say: Why did Russell Harty invite her on the show just to slag off her work!
Debbie is just Debbie, I don't know her but I like her
Deborah Harry continues to be so bloody refreshing. Are there any female pop singers today who would have the slightest idea as to who Marshall McLuhan was? Otherwise, Russ Hardy is a passive-aggressive twat. (We already knew that). Debbie's classy poise carries on to 2024 . CHEERS
She's so natural.....but he is so boring
Debbie Harry; Every young lads fantasy back in the day!
Hi, have you got an episode from 29.10.1984 with Matt Bianco? I’m a big fan. Thank you.
What an amazing woman. If that were me I would tell him he is a stuck up dickhead! She is so composed and stunningly beautiful!
Crazy about Debbie since I was young in late 1970s and first saw a poster of her beautiful face.
Her lips, natural I assume, are so ridiculous (in a fabulous way), as if they have been drawn into her face by a designer of "the perfect mouth" and no one has achieved the same look either before or since. Simply astounding.
GRANDIOSE BLONDINOTE
What a woman.
The worst interviewer ever heard. Even worse than another one where all the interviewer asked over and over is who she had and would still like to sleep with. That was bad but this was even worse. How do these interviewers keep from getting fired or hired at all? Beyond me. I believe she has had the worst interviewers I have ever heard. She is so classy and smart, and handles them with grace and ease. Inspiring. I'll try to channel her grace the next time I encounter a rude person. PS) How inappropriate for him- a large man- to arm wrestle her- a small, petite woman. She even handled that as good as any woman could.
I know yeah, what a creep
She went through that
Keith Haring outfit ???
How bizarre that Videodrome was considered so taboo and so extreme . The same thing with Debbies first solo album KooKoo, because she had acupuncture needles in her head.
Какого чёрта камера в 1983 году лучше снимает чем 1990-2005 годах.
Is she is wearing street artist ..what's his name? Graffiti artist
(D. Harry) "Marshal Mcluhan"
(R. Harty) sounding uncertain, "yes, right" lol.
I'm with Clive Nicholas on this: Never a great fan of Russel Harty at all, crap interviewer & a token gay for the system..... Yes, she should have called him a complete knob but maybe that was the reaction he was trying to provoke.......just 'up' his sad ratings I'd say....
"Oh! He upset Debbie Harry...he must be a really 'probing' type interviewer.."
Yeah right. Sorry. He was pretty crap.
I don't normally speak ill of anyone, dead or alive, but the bloke was rubbish, let's be honest.
Yes, he was an incredibly nasty, condescending and rude. But he's a bit toned down here.
i hope Mr Harty looks back at his performance with shame.
Wearing Stephen Sprouse ⚡⚡⚡
I thought she looked better in the film
If you got it they want it.
С такими тётями хоть куда готов всегда!
Russell Harty "now then..... I am going to interrupterview you and make an absolute twat of myself..right."
I watched this when it was broadcast and was really annoyed at how Russell Harty introduced Debbie.. 'She used to look like this'..sarcy twit..never understood why he was popular..much preferred T Wogan...
Great interviewer!!
He is vile.
He has zero personality, and she has EVERYTHING 🤣
Harty was a right prig.
Bitch please, you're addressing Debbie Harry, lol.
I never realised how patronising Russell Harry was when I watched him as a kid... And he is so lacking in any kind of charisma.... He doubt he would make it in TV today...
8:47...
I can understand why she's bored his such a droll on an interviewer.
Russell Harty was so stuck up and to me comes across as condescending. However, she did have fun with the arm wrestle.
Why didn't Russel let Debbie win the arm wrestling... He must have a heart of glass♥️
She was a godess no doubt also responsible for so many odd socks from the late 70's and beyond .
Is it me or does Blondie look un-compfy in this interview?
Unless I'm blind, Blondie were not present at this interview, only Debbie Harry.
@@duffbaker9554 Well who the hell do you think Debbie Harry is? SHE'S Blondie dumb ass. duh.........
@@allancove4483 Major fail. Blondie is a group. I'm guessing you do not remember their 'Blondie Is A Group' campaign back in '78. Look it up if you are in doubt. Anyway, if Debbie Harry is Blondie then Clem Burke is Blondie, Chris Stein is Blondie, etc.
@@duffbaker9554 I know Blondie well. And the only blonde in that "group" as you call it, is Debbie Harry. How the hell do you think they got that name? Debbie Harry IS Blondie & Blondie IS Debbie Harry. So stop nitpicking over something so damn stupid, stupid.
@@allancove4483 Whatever you say, sport. Whatever you say..
His right arm is only strong because he's such a wanker.
And what was the point if the arm wrestle? Was that just to show his strength over her? What a man... yuk
Nasty Harty!
She had to put up with a lot of sexist crap. The way he spoke to her was sickening
to be this bad requires genius
Fit as fuck
Russell Harty…. Passive aggressive, patronising, arrogant and consistently offensive…… two questions…. How? And Why?
Russell Harty was like a formal gay uncle, he was actually a good interviewer.
He liked teenage boys which ultimately cost him his life
@@JCStorm76 yeah just read that he died of Hepititus-B (kidney failure?) and that the tabloid press at the time claimed that he caught it from rent boys. Strange as I just found out that the went to QEG's grammar school in a town in which I grew up in during my junior years and that he as a teacher taught Anthony Daniels when he was a kid AKA C3PO in Star Wars.
Russell Harty was so gay.