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VERY FINE. Sealed and flawless in original packaging. Personally signed by Debbie Harry and Chris Stein. Debbie Harry is the singer, songwriter and actress, best known as the lead vocalist of the band Blondie. Limited to only 150 signed & numbered units worldwide. Presented in an exclusive slipcase. Titan Books April 28th 2023. Chris Stein, Debbie Harry, H.R. Giger "Metamorphosis: Creating the Visual Concept for KooKoo". Deluxe Slipcased Signed Limited Edition of only 150. Personally signed by Debbie Harry and Chris Stein on an exclusively designed tip-in sheet. Presented in an exclusive slipcase. Limited Edition. Very Fine. Sealed in the original publisher packaging without any flaws. Featuring variant cover art with image of Debbie Harry taken from the KooKoo album cover. A beautiful coffee table signed limited edition art book chronicling the extraordinary collaboration between Debbie Harry and H.R. Giger for Harry's 1981 solo album KooKoo. This edition is now OUT OF PRINT. PAPER STOCK & WEIGHT: 140gsm Chinese Chen ming art matt art. SPECIAL FINISHES: Interiors spot gloss machine varnish throughout. BINDING: Sewn. DUSTJACKET: Exclusive jacket, variant from standard edition with image of Debbie Harry taken from the KooKoo album cover on front and Giger masks on the back. SLIPCASE SPECIFICATION: Printed 4-colour on 157gsm glossy art with matt lamination and spot UV varnish over 3mm boards. TIP-IN SHEET: 120gsm Zen with images of contact sheets of photography from the book. SIGNED: Signed bound-in tip- in sheet signed by Chris Stein and Debbie Harry. NUMBERED: 1 to 150. LIMITED TO: Limited to 150 copies. DESCRIPTION: When the visual artist H.R. Giger, best known for his biomechanical creature and set design for seminal 1979 sci-fi-horror film Alien, encountered Debbie Harry, the punk icon and lead singer of globally successful New Wave band Blondie, the results were sublime. The artwork for Harry s 1981 debut solo KooKoo album cover was deemed so frightening it was originally banned on the London Underground. The fantastical videos for two of the tracks on the album, Backfired and Now I Know you Know, featured Giger himself piercing an Egyptian sarcophagus and a newly brunette Harry reimagined as a xenomorphic Giger creature. With photographs and words by Chris Stein, Harry s long-term collaborator, artefacts and sketches from the Giger archive, and an introduction by Debbie Harry, this is an essential behind-the-scenes insight into the processes of an incredible creative partnership. DEBBIE HARRY. The name Debbie Harry evokes many images: seminal rock-n-roll figure, complex songstress, incandescent front woman, actor and fashion icon. Debbie s chart-topping success, fearless spirit and rare longevity - including more than 50 million albums sold worldwide and acclaimed solo projects - have cemented her as a vibrant global force and a shaper of pop culture. With Blondie, undeniably one of the most trailblazing and influential bands of our time, Debbie and co-founder Chris Stein brought the worlds of rock, punk, disco and Reggae together with Heart of Glass and Call Me and broke ground by combining hip-hop and pop on Rapture. Their decades-long successes led to an induction into the Rock N Roll Hall of Fame for the band in 2006. As a solo artist, Nile Rodgers & Bernard Edwards co-produced her first release Koo Koo in 1981 and she continued to defy expectations with such genre-busting efforts as French Kissing in the U.S.A., Rush Rush, Rain, and The Jam Was Moving. Debbie has also had a long running collaboration with the critically acclaimed American jazz group, The Jazz Passengers, stalwarts of New York s free-jazz scene. Her spectacular voice drips with a sophisticated elegance rarely heard in pop music as she continues to infuse her work with an exquisite artistic sensibility. Seller Inventory # 157-135
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