Former wild child rocker Debbie Harry has revealed her hell-raising days are behind her – as she has taken up knitting.
The Blondie frontwoman, 76, and former heroin addict, has previously spoken about how she “tried everything” during the band’s heyday.
But now she says the only needles she takes on tour are for knitting with.
In an interview for The Big Issue with Johnny Marr, the former guitarist with The Smiths, the Sunday Girl singer said: “I’m curious about how I will respond to being back out on the road, since I haven’t done it for a couple of years.
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“I’ve had to change my behaviour over the years, and behaviour is very hard to change.
“On tour these days I do what the women on the front during the French Revolution would do. I sit there knitting and rocking back and forth.
“That’s what I do. I will be bringing my knitting needles with me.”
Harry, is not the only rock star famed for partying to have taken up knitting.
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In 2020 Rolling Stone Ronnie Wood stunned fans when he admitted a new-found passion for creating woollens.
Looking back on wild child days, Debbie reveals in her memoir Face It that she used heroin to “blank out parts of my life” or when she was “dealing with some depression.”
The star admitted that she is open about the key events in her life, such as when she was raped while at Blondie co-founder Chris Steins apartment in the mid-1970s.
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She also wrote that during the early 1970s, the serial killer Ted Bundy lured her into his car in New York City, but she escaped.
Harry, who was adopted at the age of four, also revealed “her deep-rooted fear of abandonment” that was caused by the rejection of her real mother.
“I’m still discovering things. It’s kind of fascinating. Once you allow yourself to put the pieces together – really put them together, and not some kind of fantasy.”
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Despite replacing heroin with therapy, the star doesn’t “really regret” using the substance.
“It started socially and didn’t seem so dangerous,” she said.
“There wasn’t much information and clinics weren’t readily available.
“I don’t really regret it, maybe only in terms of feeling stupid. I happened to live at that time and perhaps, if I was younger now, I’d be taking opioids to find out what they were like. I have an adventurous spirit and a curious mind.”
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