Debbie Harry of Blondie says the band is currently in a state of uncertainty. Plans are in place to release a new album this fall, and Harry has been approached about a Blondie biopic and documentary.
“They’re in the works,” the 80-year-old singer recently told Vanity Fair. “But I don’t know how a life can be summarized or given a caption. I suppose there’ll be something that’s off the wall but will somehow work. I’m happy to be doing it — it’s helping me to collect my thoughts.”
Following the death of drummer Clem Burke last April, the band’s future is uncertain.
“I ran into a wall: the [2024] tour ended, Clem died, and wow. What is this space I live in now?” Harry said. “I’m curing — I’m doing a cure. And part of that is de-cluttering up my space, which is crowded with that life. I need to get some breath, get some air in there. And I want to feel that little spark of creativity, surprise — those things. There’s a little tingle of that, and I hope that will be there for me.”
Harry has considered retirement for over a decade. “As for the rumors of the last tour, we’ve decided we’ll live forever,” Burke said in 2014. “But Debbie is older than me and has hinted it could be time. Obviously without her, there is no Blondie.”
In her conversation with Vanity Fair, Harry discussed parting with her old stage clothes. “I don’t have all of it,” she said. “I do have the stage stuff and the clothes I made for photography and shows — I’ve been careful about that, even though it’s a pile of rags. It’s in a storage space, because I had it in my house until I couldn’t stand it anymore. But now that I’m not on the road, I’m getting good at deleting it.”
Blondie does not have any concerts scheduled at this time.