14 Things You Might Not Know About Blondie

Like, in addition to being perfect, Debbie Harry is kind of psychic.

Blondie was originally called "The Angel and the Snake."

Blondie was originally called "The Angel and the Snake."

Before Blondie, Chris Stein was in a folk band called “The Wind in the Willows” (named after the children’s book.) Looking to join a band in lieu with a burgeoning bohemian Greenwich Village scene, Stein began playing guitar in The Stilettos and quickly became involved with one of the band's singers, Debbie Harry. Eventually the two left the band to start "Angel and the Snake," dubbed "Blondie" in 1975 after Harry's nickname.

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Debbie Harry claims to have regular psychic episodes.

Debbie Harry claims to have regular psychic episodes.

The first psychic event took place when she was three, right after her parents told her she was adopted. She writes: “We lived in Hawthorne, New Jersey, where I spent almost every day in the year digging in my sand pile, daydreaming, and swinging. One day I started hearing voices coming from a brick fireplace my dad had built, telling me complex mathematical information. I ran into the house to tell my mother what I’d heard and how important it was. She laughed as I tried to verbalize what I thought I had heard because it sounded ridiculous. The exhilarating physical sensation this psychic contact had given me was gone and I was left feeling oddly empty.”

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Her childhood nickname was "Moon."

Her childhood nickname was "Moon."

In high school, Harry experimented with makeup, often leaving her ostracized as a child claiming that “an oval face was considered beautiful, not a broad round blob like mine, which earned me the nickname Moon.”

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The famous zebra print dress Debbie wore in an early poster was originally a pillow case.

The famous zebra print dress Debbie wore in an early poster was originally a pillow case.

A pillow case she found in the garbage! At the time, none of her friends (or her!) had any money, so they'd often find clothing in the trash. More often than not, in decent condition.

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