Debbie Harry - Kookoo
Posted: 20 Oct 2019, 16:08
Une interview très intéressante de Debbie Harry en 2019 à propos de l'album Kookoo :
"Chris [Stein] and I wanted to make an album that synthesized black and white music. We thought it would be very interesting socially as well as musically. The racial issue was and still is very heavy in the U.S.
The first artists we thought to work with were Bernard Edwards and Nile Rodgers. We had been CHIC fans for years. Luckily, they were as interested in us as we were in them. The collection was later to be entitled KooKoo.
It was a full-on collaboration. Nile and Bernard wrote four songs, Chris and I wrote four songs, and we wrote two more songs as a foursome. And it was so much fun to record. I loved that album. I feel that we were on the cusp of creating a style of music that exists today without a second thought but was unprecedented then. I guess we were a few years too soon."
Debbie Harry, 2019.
"Chris [Stein] and I wanted to make an album that synthesized black and white music. We thought it would be very interesting socially as well as musically. The racial issue was and still is very heavy in the U.S.
The first artists we thought to work with were Bernard Edwards and Nile Rodgers. We had been CHIC fans for years. Luckily, they were as interested in us as we were in them. The collection was later to be entitled KooKoo.
It was a full-on collaboration. Nile and Bernard wrote four songs, Chris and I wrote four songs, and we wrote two more songs as a foursome. And it was so much fun to record. I loved that album. I feel that we were on the cusp of creating a style of music that exists today without a second thought but was unprecedented then. I guess we were a few years too soon."
Debbie Harry, 2019.