Debbie Harry says she struggles to think of herself as an icon and that she still can't believe how successful her career has been.
The Blondie frontwoman is the subject of a new photo exhibition at London’s Somerset House called Negative: Me, Blondie and The Advent of Punk.
Looking at the images from throughout her career, she says she is uncomfortable with the tag ‘icon.’ Harry, 69, tells Hello Magazine: “Someone like Judi Dench is a great icon. Icon is such a strange word and when they started using it about me, I thought it was kind of silly.
“It’s interesting, I suppose, that I ended up having such a different life than I ever thought. I’m happy that it worked. I didn’t really have an artistic upbringing, or background in music or anything.
“I just wanted to get into my own world. I had no way of knowing whether it would turn into a career. I was like a kid who was in some kind of weird candy store. It was great.”
