Heart of glass DEBBIE’S PRIVATE ANGUISH

“Musician or hooker?” muses Debbie Harry as she fluffs up her peroxide hair in her London hotel room. “I would have definitely made a lot more money if I’d been a hooker, not a singer.”

Debbie, who launched a million crushes when she hit the late ’70s music scene with the band Blondie, laughs as she speaks. Rather surprisingly for a bona fide icon, she doesn’t take herself too seriously. She thinks it’s hilarious that word went round she was a lady of the night before she became a rock star.

“There were always rumours about me like that. I was a woman in a man’s world. I was different. A girl in a band. Not everybody liked it, so what do you expect? But for me it was always about the music. Still is. I’m still out there doing it.”