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Blondie In Retrospect

Susan Compo, MOJO, October 1994

AS NORMAN MAILER ONCE SAID, "All blondes are natural blondes." Look it up in any book of pop quotes and you'll probably find a picture of Deborah Harry, who's a natural right down to her deep dark undermane. As part of that passel of artists who picture themselves as Marilyn Monroe's lost daughter, Harry really was an orphan who fled the confines of Florida to be a Playboy bunny in New York City.

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