Debbie Harry photographed by legendary music archivist and photographer Michael Ochs at the Hollywood Sign in 1977 when Blondie first came to LA to play a series of shows at The Whisky a Go Go. Harry paired a bold, horizontal-striped shirt with dark sunglasses and patterned shorts—a casual, effortlessly cool look that epitomized the emerging New York punk/new wave aestheti.
In her memoir Face It, Harry recalls the band’s debut at the club, “[LA] was all we could have hoped for. People were still dressing like hippies – and here we were, dressed in our little mod outfits. But the audiences really responded to us.”
