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Debbie Harry: Rockbird (Chrysalis)

Caroline Sullivan, Melody Maker, 22 November 1986

FIVE YEARS is nigh on an eternity in pop, and Debbie Harry has returned to a changed world — a world in which the Lower East Side neighbourhood that spawned her career has been afflicted by gentrification, and Debbie's no longer the only blonde on the block.

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