H.R. Giger: Debbie Harry Metamorphosis: Creating the Visual Concept for KooKoo

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Beyond his era-defining music with Blondie, Stein has collaborated with a host of artists over the years, including Andy Warhol, Jean-Michel Basquiat, William Burroughs, Devo, Glenn O’Brien, and Shepard Fairey. She now has over 30 film and television roles to her credit, including "Union City" (1980), "Videodrome (1983)", "Hairspray" (1988), "Body Bags" (1993), and "Heavy" (1995).

I wore a gorgeous black natural hair wig and a stencilled bodysuit to dance around in with my fair hair brushed in a Giger style stencil. It was a match of rock and sci-fi, something the MTV generation had seen everywhere from a Dire Strait famous music video to David Bowie’s Starman and Major Tom and nearly everything about Devo. Titan Books will use the information you provide on this form to be in touch with you and to provide updates and marketing. Blondie co-founder, guitarist, producer, photographer and co-host of cult cable show TV Party, Chris Stein began shooting in 1968 and hasn’t put the camera down since. Her spectacular voice drips with a sophisticated elegance rarely heard in pop music and she continues to infuse her work with an exquisite artistic sensibility.The album cov­er is prob­a­bly bet­ter known than the music inside, and no won­der: it fea­tures Harry’s face pierced hor­i­zon­tal­ly by four spikes. Afterward, he worked with harder-edged bands, including Celtic Frost, Carcass, Danzig, and Triptykon.

To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Of all the poster-image icons of the 20th Century, perhaps few are as recognisable as Blondie’s Debbie Harry. MORE BLONDIE: “Phil Spector Answered The Door With A Colt 45 In One Hand And A Bottle Of Wine In The Other…” Blondie Interviewed!This shock picture of Blondie star Debbie Harry has been banned from Britain’s high streets,” continued the Mirror, “The picture - which is also on the cover of Debbie’s first solo album, Koo Koo - has upset Britain’s advertising bosses. Harry commissioned Giger a couple of years after he achieved international fame for designing the phantasmagoric “xenomorph” in the movie Alien for the cover art of her 1981 solo debut, KooKoo .

Renowned as the co-founder and guitarist of the iconic new wave band Blondie, Chris Stein’s photography is as poignant and powerful as the songs he wrote. It continues with photos of the studio, work-in-progress Polaroids by Giger and his crew, and Giger’s drawings. They were appar­ent­ly excit­ed about my work and asked me whether I would be pre­pared to design the cov­er of the new Deb­bie Har­ry album. She has become and still remains a true national treasure, one whose influence continues to impact the worlds of music, fashion and art. KooKoo was produced by Nile Rodgers and Bernard Edwards of Chic and marked Harry’s first foray into the music industry without the rest of Blondie.With is second book Point of View: Me, New York City and the Punk Scene (Rizzoli), Stein expands upon that highly praised collection, which offered a unique, behind-the-scenes look at Blondie and its milieu. The music videos are sim­ple, per­for­mance based, though the sun­ny, allur­ing Har­ry has dis­ap­peared and a pro­to-Goth being has tak­en her place. He offers a local’s view of the far-from-gentrified East Village neighborhood where he lived, and where the punk movement emerged. HR Giger was the designer of Alien, probably the most famous sci-fi character shown on silver screen.