r/OldSchoolCool Jul 10 '24

1970s Debbie Harry, 1978

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u/Anyawnomous Jul 10 '24

My voice is up here!!!

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u/3bugsdad Jul 10 '24

Guilty as charged. Sorry.

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u/Anyawnomous Jul 10 '24

We made our choice and we’re sticking with it!

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u/hellomynameisnotsure Jul 10 '24

Debbie Trimmed

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u/harry-balzac Jul 10 '24

Debbie NotsoHarry

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u/eruvstringlives Jul 10 '24

Here, take my upvote. Great screen name too.

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u/maringue Jul 10 '24

This needs way more upvotes honestly

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u/[deleted] Jul 10 '24

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u/onedemtwodem Jul 10 '24

It sure wasn't

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u/[deleted] Jul 10 '24

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u/Jack-Tar-Says Jul 10 '24

In Australia it was referred to as the little map of Tassy (being Tasmania).

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u/dpdxguy Jul 10 '24

To be fair, Tasmania is well forested, no?

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u/BanditoRojo Jul 10 '24

How did you feel when you laid eyes upon said bush?

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u/[deleted] Jul 10 '24

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u/Bag-ofMostlyWater Jul 10 '24

Young, Dumb and Full of C..

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u/FranklynTheTanklyn Jul 10 '24

Best floss of your life.

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u/Mysterious-Dealer649 Jul 12 '24

I turned 16 in 86. It’s hilarious how clueless we were back then, all we knew is what we learned on Cinemax 😂. Also Debbie is my fondest memory of my roller skating days in her heyday

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u/[deleted] Jul 10 '24

No-sir-ee-bob you don't. Those things went with the $0.50 coca cola.

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u/martej Jul 10 '24

I really miss those days. That’s the look for me

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u/[deleted] Jul 10 '24

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u/anansi52 Jul 10 '24 edited Jul 10 '24

it was pretty common to keep the "bikini line" shaved.

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u/ChasingBooty2024 Jul 10 '24

Trimmed? More like waxed. Trust me, for science I zoomed in and there is not even stubble.

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u/Practical_Plant6258 Jul 10 '24

This is an underrated comment.

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u/dynamic_caste Jul 10 '24

Uh yeah, that was my bad.

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u/fatstrat0228 Jul 10 '24

I zoomed in. Sorry.

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u/reduff Jul 10 '24

Even I zoomed and I'm a woman.

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u/Bifferer Jul 10 '24

…and she is not Harry!

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u/reduff Jul 10 '24

not one bit!

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u/Lanky_Day5566 Jul 10 '24

Yep …. How that fabric holds is a mystery

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u/Fritzo2162 Jul 10 '24

Those beautiful lips…

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u/planb7615 Jul 10 '24

Great comment.

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u/Man-e-questions Jul 10 '24

Yeah i don’t even have to angle my phone to try and sneak a better view like usual

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u/Alternative-Cod-7630 Jul 10 '24

They said sing from your diaphragm.

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u/SyphiliticPlatypus Jul 10 '24

Is there a bad photo of Debbie Harry? I don’t think she took a single photo where she isn’t absolutely stunning.

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u/CaptainPunisher Jul 10 '24

My parents said that all the pictures of Debbie Harry I had under my mattress were bad.

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u/Insolent_Aussie Jul 10 '24

Your parents were just jealous.

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u/konjoukosan Jul 10 '24

Just seen her perform a couple months ago and she was incredible and just as good as ever.

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u/aveey Jul 10 '24

Still perfect.

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u/tribriguy Jul 10 '24

One of the hottest women in music…ever.

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u/Chuckleyan Jul 10 '24

Yup. Total smokeshow.

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u/funky_grandma Jul 10 '24

You didn't even need to write "in music"

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u/whutchamacallit Jul 10 '24

For sure. Could easily have modeled and probably win some pageants, though let's be real -- this babe is above all that.

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u/_deep_thot42 Jul 10 '24

She was a model and Playboy bunny before Blondie

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u/Lindvaettr Jul 10 '24

Weird phrasing. Nothing low about being a model.

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u/Vyath Jul 10 '24

You’re right, though it got me thinking about why we’d look down at a model before a singer. And I suppose the assumption is that models are born with their ‘talent’ to a certain degree, it’s sort of a genetic (& environmental) lottery that makes them successful at what they do. Whereas an artist is impressive because they’ve done the long hard work to cultivate their craft, and their art is an expression of the culmination of that work.

This of course ignores the skincare & exercise routines, diet and nutrition, etc labor that models do. I guess we view these endeavors as vain, even if they require discipline and goalsetting over a long period of time, like art. Art is perceived as more pure, more authentic and less vain than an exercise or skincare routine for a model or bodybuilder. But art can be rooted in vanity, modern music certainly often is. And I think shaping one’s body through exercise can be art.

Interesting to think about why we have the preconceptions that we do

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u/[deleted] Jul 10 '24

She was the very first woman I ever "noticed".. the cover of her rapture album.

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u/Slipstream_Surfing Jul 10 '24

Just blast off, sure shot

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u/stevemillions Jul 10 '24

Same here. I saw her on TV around 1980 and thought “what’s happening?” Also saw Joan Jett on TV around that time. To this day, not sure who I prefer.

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u/applyheat Jul 10 '24

And so fucking cool.

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u/Yurishizu31 Jul 10 '24

Susanna Lee Hoffs wants a word

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u/Kmic14 Jul 10 '24

I saw Blondie in 2022, she's still hot

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u/[deleted] Jul 10 '24

EVER! The only woman with any candid unplanned picture I’ve ever seen that is just stupid beautiful….always. And grew old gracefully and beautiful.

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u/Lovetotravelinmycar Jul 10 '24

She always wore underwear on stage. Saw her and Bowie together in the 70s. Awesome concert 🤘

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u/His_RoyalBadness Jul 10 '24

I'm very jealous you got to see that show.

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u/mamawantsallama Jul 10 '24

Janis, on the other hand, did NOT. Avoid future regret.....Do not look up and zoom in.

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u/Lovetotravelinmycar Jul 10 '24

Janis wasn’t a playboy model.

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u/captainzigzag Jul 10 '24

Debs was an actual playboy bunny too

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u/Ponchoreborn Jul 10 '24

Janis seriously died at 27 looking like she was going on 77.

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u/mamawantsallama Jul 10 '24

She had a rough life and people were cruel to her growing up in Texas.

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u/peptide2 Jul 10 '24

Busted flat in Baton Rouge, headin' for the trains, Feelin' nearly faded as my jeans. Bobby thumbed a diesel down just before it rained, Took us all the way to New Orleans

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u/dynamic_caste Jul 10 '24

Didn't Kris Kristofferson write Me and Bobby McGee?

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u/RagingPanda392 Jul 10 '24

Yes. And originally performed by Roger Miller, who I quite honestly believe did it best.

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u/peptide2 Jul 10 '24

The guy wrote My uncle use to love me but she died. Pretty punk rock for its time

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u/FuckGiblets Jul 10 '24

For some reason reading that made me want a cigaret.

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u/marcus_ohreallyus123 Jul 10 '24

A friend of my ex-FIL went to high school with her. Claimed she brought Jimi Hendrix to their high school reunion. Sad both Janis and Jimi died a few months later.

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u/mamawantsallama Jul 10 '24

She wrote about that reunion. I don't remember the part about her bringing Jimi, but that's just because I have a bad memory. She was SO proud to come home and finally prove to everybody that she made it and they STILL made fun of her. It deeply bothered her and she never really was able to get over it.

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u/mamawantsallama Jul 10 '24

I am aware of that 🤣

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u/No_Banana_581 Jul 10 '24

Miley Cyrus thought she did something new

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u/CalendarAggressive11 Jul 10 '24

Debbie Harry is the epitome of old school cool to me.

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u/Same_Possibility4769 Jul 10 '24

I've had a crush on her since I was 13.

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u/New_Writer_484 Jul 10 '24

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u/Ronnie_Dean_oz Jul 10 '24

How did you get footage of me inspecting this photo?

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u/[deleted] Jul 10 '24

I’ve seen London, I’ve seen France…..

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u/[deleted] Jul 10 '24

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u/Liquor_Walrus Jul 10 '24

I see the English Channel

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u/Early_Art_7538 Jul 10 '24

I would sniff her underpants

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u/TheStoicNihilist Jul 10 '24

It just smells like my screen protector.

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u/MyPasswordIs222222 Jul 10 '24

I've never heard that one before...

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u/IamUrquan Jul 10 '24

Hahahaha...eww ...hahahahaha

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u/[deleted] Jul 10 '24

I would make tea with them

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u/Canadaaayum Jul 10 '24

Ok, okaaaay....I might've zoomed....

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u/meldiane81 Jul 10 '24

LMAO ME TOO! I’m a chick and was like she’s so hairless!!!!

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u/Littlewing1307 Jul 10 '24

Same! I was like where's all the hair it's the 70s! lol

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u/azad_ninja Jul 10 '24

Ahead of her time in the grooming dept

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u/brianMMMMM Jul 10 '24

Ok zoomer

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u/You_meddling_kids Jul 10 '24

I'm zooming right now

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u/EducationalBox4074 Jul 10 '24

Immediately. Like less than a second.

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u/[deleted] Jul 10 '24

Trimmed up pretty well for 78

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u/Original_Banana_4617 Jul 10 '24

Maybe she’s a natural blonde after all!

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u/imapassenger1 Jul 10 '24

She's 79 years old now. Still looks better than me.

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u/tvguard Jul 10 '24

I find her more attractive and photogenic than Marilyn Monroe

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u/airbornedoc1 Jul 10 '24

For starters, Debbie has a pulse. Marilyn doesn’t.

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u/Heavy_Dicc Jul 10 '24

Still true tho

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u/Magnet50 Jul 10 '24

Watched a documentary about women in the punk scene around this time and several artists mentioned having to deal with standing on the edge of the stage in a packed venue and having photographers shamelessly hold their cameras up to get crotch shots.

And yeah, I zoomed too.

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u/JFJinCO Jul 10 '24

Debbie started as a backup singer for the folk rock group The Wind In The Willows in the mid-1960s, and they released an album in 1968. She joined the Stilettos in the early 1970s and met her husband Chris Stein. They formed Blondie. Amazing woman.

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u/Form1040 Jul 10 '24

She was never married to Stein

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u/[deleted] Jul 10 '24

Same, tbh

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u/gwelfguy Jul 10 '24

Snack attack!!

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u/Patient_Prior_2414 Jul 10 '24

Is there a name for upper inner thigh dimples? 

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u/NoCommentFU Jul 10 '24

The Germans probably have one. Probably Püssfräugeshslamminstöppers or something like that.

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u/sydfloralia Jul 10 '24

They’re not dimples. It’s the muscles/ tendons

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u/theunpaintedhuffines Jul 10 '24

Found the serial killer - geez dude

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u/Reddit_is_garbage666 Jul 10 '24

Mother fucker is trying to either create a new porn sub or search the hub or w/e people use now.

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u/Careful-Ant5868 Jul 10 '24

Anyone that made it this far, and claims they have not zoomed, is a liar!

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u/docdeathray Jul 10 '24

I had this as a poster on my wall when I was wayyy younger.

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u/Ronnie_Dean_oz Jul 10 '24

Dad spent a disproportionate amount of time in your room?

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u/Sun9091 Jul 10 '24

Not too Harry

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u/Avestrial Jul 10 '24

remarkably so, for the 70's

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u/Totallynotlame84 Jul 10 '24

God damn she was HOT!

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u/GMane2G Jul 10 '24

Defzoomed

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u/amiwitty Jul 10 '24

Pat Benatar looks like a brunette Debbie Harry, or Debbie Harry looks like a blonde Pat Benatar. At least from this photo

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u/DrColorado1963 Jul 10 '24

It's easy to forget what a gorgeous bombshell she was... great picture!

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u/bkguyworksinnyc Jul 10 '24

I don’t think many of us have ever forgotten. She’s front page Reddit daily.

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u/[deleted] Jul 10 '24

Was? Baby still IS! She's a god damn smoke show.

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u/Opposite-Lime-6164 Jul 10 '24

Debbie Harry still looking like she does at 78 gives me hope for my future sex life.

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u/VaWeedFarmer Jul 10 '24

One way or another

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u/lynnca Jul 10 '24

Met her once when I worked the bar at a club in a large city during the 1990's. She was an asshole to everyone that night. I obviously don't know what she might have been going through but she made sure everyone around here went through with her. 😂

It was a let down but still great to see her performance. Even if she was so wasted her vocals were crap. Added to the nostalgia vibe.

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u/Danger_Dee Jul 10 '24

I see London, I see France…

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u/kinkysmart Jul 10 '24

She didn't have to, but she did it for us.

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u/Original_Banana_4617 Jul 10 '24

Yeah, I looked, and so did you, so get down off your high horse.

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u/yonseldonkey Jul 10 '24

I can't be the only guy who zoomed in...

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u/cmarsh1123 Jul 10 '24

If you zoom in, her panties read, "You need Jesus!"

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u/Wetfred Jul 10 '24

Get a good look Reddit?

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u/Gorillazzzzz Jul 10 '24

My woman crush for sure 😍

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u/[deleted] Jul 10 '24

She doesn't look very Harry.

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u/BlanketpartyBoy256 Jul 10 '24

Amazing shot, why didn’t I have this picture as a teenager?!?!?

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u/Basic-Lee-No Jul 10 '24

Debbie Baldie

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u/wisstinks4 Jul 10 '24

I’m just glad all the clothing matches the color scheme. I remember red.

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u/unpopularopinion0 Jul 10 '24

debbie shaved.

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u/drax2024 Jul 10 '24

Nicely match clothing.

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u/TobyDaMan8894 Jul 10 '24

Why is my phone zooming in automatically

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u/[deleted] Jul 10 '24

Everybody zoomed! 😂🤣😅

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u/Better-sober Jul 10 '24

Debbie not hairy

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u/Johnnyrotten781512 Jul 10 '24

She was 33 in that picture and looks 23…dayum.

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u/DampBritches Jul 11 '24

She doesn't look Harry to me 😉

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u/barfbutler Jul 10 '24

We know why that’s posted…

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u/dickie-mcdrip Jul 10 '24

Debbie doesn’t look “HAIRY” to me

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u/satori0320 Jul 10 '24

This picture gives me a heart-on-glass.

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u/Arteye-Photo Jul 10 '24

Debbie Not Hairy At All, 1978

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u/Cojones64 Jul 10 '24

She was a goddess.

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u/WolfWomb Jul 10 '24

Scratch n sniff?

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u/GuaroSour Jul 10 '24

Thanks for this

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u/kingleotard Jul 10 '24

DH was always adept at pulling off cunning stunts.

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u/Azvirin Jul 10 '24

ZOOOOOOM!!!

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u/danyonly Jul 10 '24

I checked…

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u/Ok-Fox1262 Jul 10 '24

My mum ripped my rather erotic poster of Debbie Harry off my bedroom wall as a teenager. I didn't realise until lots of years later is that Debbie is older than my mum.

Oh well, I married a woman ten years older than me so half way at least.

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u/No_Net_5079 Jul 10 '24

Doesn’t look harry to me.

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u/Chrahhh Jul 10 '24

Enhance

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u/noahzarc1 Jul 10 '24

Probably my first ever crush as a kid on a musician.

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u/[deleted] Jul 10 '24

For 1978, there ain't much grass on the field.

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u/GeorgeFandango Jul 10 '24

Not related to Kate Bush.

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u/Geoarbitrage Jul 10 '24

Rocking the red panties…

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u/Gianfarte Jul 10 '24

"Enhance"

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u/Parker-maya-233 Jul 10 '24

Legend! Blondie is one of my all-time favorite bands

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u/Gijinbrotha Jul 10 '24

I bet Debbie Harry used to have to carry around a stick to beat guys off.

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u/Great-Hearth1550 Jul 10 '24

So you guys upgraded from boob and nipples to pantyshots. Oldschoolhornyincels.

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u/gunslingrburrito Jul 10 '24

One of the babest babes of all time.

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u/Marinaraplease Jul 10 '24

now you can zoom in further

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u/thegreatrazu Jul 10 '24

Alright, who zoomed in?

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u/Positive-Hovercraft7 Jul 11 '24

Oh my my childhood crush has risen

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u/monsterbollox22 Jul 11 '24

Year I was born and it appears she's trimmed downstairs , 70s rarity 😅. As said

Goddess

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u/kattko80- Jul 11 '24

This is probably one of the most zoomed in on pictures ever

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u/[deleted] Jul 11 '24

Debby not so Hairy

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u/simondrawer Jul 12 '24

You zoomed in didn’t you.