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Deborah Harry: Debravation (Sire/Reprise)

Evelyn McDonnell, Rolling Stone, 14 October 1993

BACK WHEN Blondie was becoming America's biggest New Wave band, Deborah Harry's deadpan lyric barbs cut the edges around her paper-doll appearance. This is the woman, after all, who called her flame "a pain in the ass" on 'Heart of Glass', Blondie's first dance-pop hit.

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