H.R. Giger: Debbie Harry Metamorphosis: Creating the Visual Concept for KooKoo

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The name Debbie Harry evokes many images: seminal rock-n-roll figure, complex songstress, incandescent front woman, actor and fashion icon.

R Giger's contribution to Debbie Harry's first solo project and possibly her most ambitious of the five albums she has recorded. There I was intro­duced to a very beau­ti­ful woman, Deb­bie Har­ry, the singer of the group Blondie, and her boyfriend, Chris Stein,” Giger said in an inter­view. They were appar­ent­ly excit­ed about my work and asked me whether I would be pre­pared to design the cov­er of the new Deb­bie Har­ry album. As a vibrant global force and a shaper of pop culture, Debbie’s chart-topping success, fearless spirit and rare longevity led to an induction into the Rock ‘N’ Roll Hall of Fame for Blondie in 2006.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. Undoubtedly, the 1981 image would go on to play its hand in influencing Clive Barker’s Hellraiser, its race of antagonistic Cenobites, and particularly their leader, Pinhead.

He helped design the haunting imagery for Swiss psyche rockers Walpurgis’ 1969 album, The Shiver , Emerson Lake, and Palmer’s gold-selling 1973 LP, Brain Salad Surgery , and the sleeve for French prog-rockers Magma’s 1978 record Attahk . Giger happily told us that he would run into it late at night and it would ‘scare the shit’ out of him,” reports Stein. They were apparently excited about my work and asked me whether I would be prepared to design the cover of the new Debbie Harry album. The fantastical music videos for two of the tracks on the album, “Backfired” and “Now I Know You Know,” co-star Giger himself as a sci-fi wizard/magician–something straight out of Logan’s Run, The Black Hole, or Planet of the Apes–piercing an Egyptian sarcophagus. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others.

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