[Dr. Sivana]

In high school (early ‘80s), I knew a man who had managed a club in NYC, and he talked to me about some of the up and comers who had later made it. He had wrongly predicted that Deborah Harry would be dead of an OD before she hit 35. However, I had asked him if these crazy Punk and New Wave acts took themselves seriously, or if it was just schyick. He told me, in all seriousness, “it’s just schtick ... except for The Talking Heads.”

[ConservativeStatement]

I remember the gist of what Ric Ocasek once said to a reporter’s question about why the Cars never talked politics. In so many words he said (indirectly) “Bob Dylan does it best. We are not Dylan. We got into music with the hope to meet girls, buy things and pay our rent.”. Something like that. Al

[Zhang Fei]

[He had wrongly predicted that Deborah Harry would be dead of an OD before she hit 35.]

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Some time back, I saw a TV episode on Amazon, probably from the 90’s, that featured Debbie Harry as a witch whose shtick was baking pies with kids as the major ingredient. I can’t actually tell if it was makeup doing the heavy lifting, but at ~45, she looked 55. I can’t tell if it was hard-living or just genes, but it was a Dorian Gray moment. I don’t follow the music industry, so the only prior image I had of her was from the music video for “Call Me” from just a decade earlier that featured excerpts from Richard Gere’s American Gigolo. The ravages of Father Time were all too apparent.