Face It

Face It: A Memoir by Debbie Harry     368 pages

The life story of the lead singer of the group, Blondie, tells all or if not all a whole lot of what she has been up to.    She has had a Forest Gump existence in some ways in how she was right smack in the middle of a lot of momentous happenings with a lot of very famous people.   She was great friends with Andy Warhol and shared his Factory and Studio 54 days.    She was at Woodstock and hung out with all the cool heads of that event.   She was there at the beginning of the Punk Rock movement and still gleefully declares she is Punk forever.    She hung out with Iggy Pop, the Ramones, the Sex Pistols.   She was buds with David Bowie.   She talks about the drugs she did, and how she went out and scored heroin at night and would bring it back to the hospital and hit up her boyfriend who was in there and had such a high tolerance for drug use that she figured he needed a boost of heroin to help really take the pain away.   She talks about her film career including the surprise porno she walked into her then lover's apartment and a guy comes out with a camera with her spread eagle and she wasn't sure whether to be offended or turned on, so she didn't stop the filming.   She talks about the punk look and how folks created it from whatever they found on the street or at Goodwill.   She takes the reader on a historical and often hysterical look at a gutsy life lived voraciously with no regrets and no apologies.   So many lines are crossed and snorted I would suggest this one for adults.