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

Book Title: H.R. Giger: Debbie Harry Metamorphosis: Creating the Visual Concept for KooKoo
Published by: ‎Titan Books; 1st edition (18 April 2023)
Language: ‎English
Hardcover: ‎192 pages
ISBN-10: ‎1803362413
ISBN-13: ‎978-1803362410
Dimensions: ‎26.57 x 2.16 x 33.53 cm

A beautiful coffee table art book chronicling the extraordinary collaboration between Debbie Harry and H.R. Giger for Harry’s 1981 solo album KooKoo.

When the visual artist H.R. Giger, best known for his biomechanical creature and set design for seminal 1979 sci-fi-horror film Alien, encountered Debbie Harry, the punk icon and lead singer of globally successful New Wave band Blondie, the results were sublime. The artwork for Harry’s 1981 debut solo KooKoo album cover was deemed so frightening it was originally banned on the London Underground. The fantastical videos for two of the tracks on the album, ‘Backfired’ and ‘Now I Know you Know,’ featured Giger himself piercing an Egyptian sarcophagus and a newly brunette Harry reimagined as a xenomorphic Giger creature.

With photographs and words by Chris Stein, Harry’s long-term collaborator, artefacts and sketches from the Giger archive, and an introduction by Debbie Harry, this is an essential behind-the-scenes insight into the processes of an incredible creative partnership.

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