1981: DEBBIE HARRY and H R GIGER Collaborate | Newsnight | Classic BBC Music | BBC Archive
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Жыл бұрынNewsnight reporter Robin Denselow reports from Zurich on the unlikely collaboration between singer Debbie Harry and visual artist H R Giger.
Debbie Harry - best known as the frontwoman of New York punk band Blondie - is about to release her debut solo album KooKoo. The cover art for KooKoo has been designed by Giger - whose most famous work to date is his nightmarish visual design on the science fiction film Alien - and sees Brian Aris' black and white photograph of Harry reimagined to show her face being punctured by needles. The image has attracted much controversy, and has been banned from display in several public places, including the London Underground.
What drew these two seemingly disparate characters together for the project, and what does it mean for the future of Blondie?
Originally broadcast 31 July, 1981.
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@Enkarashaddam 9 ай бұрын
Giger was beyond literally everybody of his time
@d-culture927 Жыл бұрын
I love the high drama of Giger sitting there dressed all in black at a table with a pitch-black candelabra and pentagram on it. Although many people found him frightening and very serious he definitely had a self-aware sense of humour about himself. He was probably one of the first Goths.
@harvardsmithdeangelo6905 Жыл бұрын
The high drama is getting blood from young children. What an embarrassing mind filled with embarrassing things!
@pressureworks Жыл бұрын
The first Goths were from around 200 AD.
@OlafProt Жыл бұрын
Every one missed his humour. The museum in Gruyère is amazing.
@sitluxetluxfuit4481 5 ай бұрын
Not a goth more like a Satanist
@43bikeguy Жыл бұрын
Debbie is both beautiful and possibly the coolest woman in music history
@harvardsmithdeangelo6905 Жыл бұрын
I mean I feel like I could name 5-10 cooler women at minimum. 25 actually.
@brando7266 Жыл бұрын
@@harvardsmithdeangelo6905 can u name some, I want to laugh ,who do u have taylor swift?
@jimdeadlock Жыл бұрын
@@harvardsmithdeangelo6905 I'm skeptical
@tachikomakusanagi3744 Жыл бұрын
@@harvardsmithdeangelo6905 We're still waiting...
@TheSic9 3 ай бұрын
The original Taylor Momsen
@DenkyManner Жыл бұрын
I will go to my grave insisting that Peter MacNicol was doing a Giger impression in Ghostbusters 2
@AlexA-bn2wb Жыл бұрын
The quality looks so good for an early 80s broadcast
@alanbeaumont4848 Жыл бұрын
It wasn't the stone age.
@Hysteria98 Жыл бұрын
It's the source material, it literally comes from the BBC archive, and I imagine to some degree upscaled or touched up to look clearer.
@bbbb98765 Жыл бұрын
@@alanbeaumont4848 Stone axes , no. But broadcast TV was very low res compared to today's digital media
@AlexA-bn2wb Жыл бұрын
@@Hysteria98 I agree, and we're generally used to the old compressed vhs recordings of these broadcasts
@northernsnow6982 Жыл бұрын
Good technicians make a world of difference. Old style film was able to pick up picture more clearly, without digital blocks. The picture was smooth, but only if you understood how to operate the equipment. Even black and white footage can be crystal clear, when taped by a good technician. Today with all the digital, doing the work for people, people still get horrible footage. It has nothing to do with year filmed, it has to do with the users ability.
@onlyme219 Жыл бұрын
I'm 56 and Debbie was the reason as a very young teen boy I knew I liked women that way (nothing wrong with the other way, it's all good). Thank you Debbie 😍❤
@sirbarnabyst.johntoffingto9017 Жыл бұрын
Yes indeed!
@tachikomakusanagi3744 Жыл бұрын
Whats the other way to like women?
@DiamorphineDeath 6 ай бұрын
upside down dude; only into chicks doing hand stands at all times…it’s an understated fetish, very unappreciated but we exist
@BravoManUK Жыл бұрын
I love Blondie and Debbie Harry, she is such a cool lady. Lucky to still have all my Vinyl Blondie albums from back in the day.
@12gaugelive 5 ай бұрын
"To Mega Therion" from Celtic Frost featured a tremendously controversial and gorgeous design from HR Giger. Thom G Warrior became Giger's caretaker. What a terrifying and fantastic artist. That was also Celtic Frosts best album in my opinion.
@RarebitFiends Жыл бұрын
Debbie Harry is one of the coolest people to have ever lived, the people she has collaborated with and in some cases found is just mind-blowing.
@kiskaloo6843 Жыл бұрын
The cover to KooKoo was very similar to the cover of Emerson, Lake and Palmer's 'Brain Salad Surgery also by HR Giger and equally as brilliant.
@pulse4503 10 ай бұрын
also heartwork by carcass
@jonesy2111 10 ай бұрын
I honestly don’t think it’s anywhere as good as the ELP cover which is brilliant and iconic
@businesstechnoinstitute 11 ай бұрын
absolutely love this
@davedogge2280 Жыл бұрын
The colonists on LV-426 in movie Aliens sent out a distress message stating 'Call Me' but the Corporation just kept them 'Hanging On The Telephone'. Hicks suggested they should take off and go 'Atomic' on the planet as it was the only way to make sure they eliminated the alien infestation
@JarrodBaniqued Жыл бұрын
It was such a 'Rapture' indeed, all the explosions turned the center of the colony into a 'Heart of Glass', but Ripley managed to escape to Earth with the 'War Child'.
@davedogge2280 Жыл бұрын
@PeegShite McGee its so bad its good !
@VisionElectricAus Жыл бұрын
Gold
@tsvmvr1 Жыл бұрын
@@JarrodBaniqued War Child is GREAT!!
@user-el2ct6xl9h Жыл бұрын
" It wounded be pleasant to have Giger's Nightmares".... I spit out my hot swiss chocolate milk😂🤣👍🏻
@cannonball666 10 ай бұрын
H.R. Giger also did Emerson, Lake, and Palmer's Brain Salad Surgery album.
@pauls8456 Жыл бұрын
Yes Debra Harry was my pinup in the late 70s until one day I realised she was the same age as my mum……
@malakiblunt 17 күн бұрын
🤣😂😬
@thinman8621 7 ай бұрын
Debbie Harry really was a New York punk. Love that girl.
@kevindobson3701 Жыл бұрын
I'm obesssed with HR Higer and his collaboration with Debbie Harry
@krisscanlon4051 Ай бұрын
Harry was really trying to stretch her image. ELP and Alien are quite a different step in another direction. Harry's music needed to catch up to the visuals...less pop and more rock...Videodrome was part of that change...
@jamescarpenter275 Жыл бұрын
Love that wig
@jimdeadlock Жыл бұрын
Looks like inspiration for the 5th Element doesn't it
@vincentgoupil180 4 ай бұрын
@@jimdeadlock Yea, Leeloo, Supreme Being
@vincentgoupil180 4 ай бұрын
6:21 reminiscent of *Louise Nevelson* sculptor
@malakiblunt 17 күн бұрын
"all artists borrow - great artists steal"
@vincentgoupil180 17 күн бұрын
@@malakiblunt BS Picasso would have said :) Neither Nevelson or Giger, even Picasso, were great artists. Artist in the sense of being life affirming. H.R. Giger visited NYC in the 70s so probably he would have seen her work or Ad Reinhardt's black on black paintings. It's written the city's street grid influenced Giger's use of stenciling plus his limited palette of black & white with some blue.
@BlondieAndBeyond Жыл бұрын
Pioneers.
@sarahlouise7163 Жыл бұрын
i love Debbie - and i love that presenter's very pleasant voice. so soothing, and the pronunciation is great, but not too posh.
@pressureworks Жыл бұрын
She looks so young and healthy here for a 36 year-old!!!
@zaftra Жыл бұрын
surprised you can see her under that vast amounts of make up.
@harvardsmithdeangelo6905 Жыл бұрын
Looks like she had been drinking nice fresh blood for a while!
@hughjass8430 Жыл бұрын
Shouldn't a 36 year look young and healthy anyway?
@kildogery Жыл бұрын
Lol, where are you from, that 36 is considered old and decrepit?
@AlisonBryen Жыл бұрын
38 year old here...were not *that* old, thank you very much!
@ryanfwood Жыл бұрын
Hard to see through those bangs...
@ickymouth 23 күн бұрын
8R Diger, noted, copy that
@thebat7048 Жыл бұрын
Deborah Harry 🥵🥵🥵🥵🥵🥵🥵
@raggedbreath Жыл бұрын
Hello Mr. Diger.
@cannonball666 10 ай бұрын
What did Debbie, Chris, and Giger have in common? They were all heroin addicts. Debbie is definitely on the chit in this interview.
@antidoteify 9 ай бұрын
totally her eyes.
@mikedtw 2 ай бұрын
so what?
@DaraM73 Жыл бұрын
It was all going so well until the open shirt and the pentagram.
@davedogge2280 Жыл бұрын
He was a strange man but his bio-mech art work just meshed perfectly for the movies' set design.
@harvardsmithdeangelo6905 Жыл бұрын
Dahmer vibes
@northernsnow6982 Жыл бұрын
Awe muffin scared of a little symbol. The cross would give me more heebie geebies, than a pentagram. If I was afraid of a symbol that is. A large amount Christians put a pentagram ontop of their Christmas trees. They just don't realize it's the same symbol. Just another example of Christianity stealing pagan traditions, or symbols, to grow followers of the time.
@DaraM73 Жыл бұрын
@@northernsnow6982 weird.
@atomictraveller Жыл бұрын
"what haven't you had any slimy mason friends before"
@TinLeadHammer Жыл бұрын
"Black magic, black music and white singer" - this probably will not fly today.
@harvardsmithdeangelo6905 Жыл бұрын
You're right, people think black magic is really lame now and only perverts and freaks pretend to be interested!
@robertwhitford4723 Жыл бұрын
Who is this Twaa!
@harvardsmithdeangelo6905 Жыл бұрын
Such brave blood drinkers!
@kildogery Жыл бұрын
Get help mate
@storytimewithunclekumaran5004 Жыл бұрын
2 giants come together for a nothing burger..
@user-yc5um2pl5v Жыл бұрын
Three, actually, with Chic doing the music. The outcome was most average, with the cover being the only highlight.
@skithness 15 күн бұрын
She’s a what?
@scaredyfish Жыл бұрын
Oh my god, the sexism of introducing Deborah as a pinup!!! It’s good to know we’ve at least reached the point where that’s not acceptable.
@GhastlyCretin Жыл бұрын
Huh? She was literally a pin-up. Millions of teenagers had posters of her in their rooms.
@scaredyfish Жыл бұрын
@@GhastlyCretin So her primary claim to fame was as a pretty thing to put on a wall? Pinup was the *first* thing the guy mentioned. There's nothing wrong with admiring a sexy picture of a woman, but the woman is not the picture.
@GhastlyCretin Жыл бұрын
@@scaredyfish Well he said "the rock world's best known pin-up". I don't see any reason for outrage nor any reason to think it is "unacceptable". It was very accurate. Would it be offensive if someone referred to Brad Pitt as "Hollywood's best known pin-up"?
@scaredyfish Жыл бұрын
@@GhastlyCretin It's the choice of emphasis, and the choice of words. She could be described as a singer, musician, and model, instead she simply inhabits the rock world as a pin-up. The person and the poster are one and the same. Today we would tend to avoid such language. I think that's progress. That's all I was saying. I don't know how to put it any more clearly.
@GhastlyCretin Жыл бұрын
@@scaredyfishIt's not that what you're saying isn't clear. I just don't see how it's "sexist" or "unacceptable".
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