Coordinates	51°58′47″N5°7′14 }}″N
name	Debbie Harry
background	solo_singer
birth name	Deborah Ann Harry
born	July 01, 1945Miami, Florida, US
instrument	Vocals, percussion, tambourine, tambura,finger cymbals, clarinet
genre	New wave, pop, rock,punk rock, power pop, disco
occupation	Vocalist, musician, actress
years active	1965–present
label	Capitol RecordsChrysalis RecordsGeffen/Warner Bros.Sire/Warner Bros.
associated acts	The Wind in the Willows The Stilettos Blondie DivinylsThe Jazz PassengersChris SteinJimmy DestriLos Fabulosos CadillacsClem Burke
website	Official Website
notable instruments	}}

Deborah Ann "Debbie" Harry (born July 1, 1945) is an American singer-songwriter and actress, best known for being the lead singer of the punk rock and new wave band Blondie. She has also had success as a solo artist, and in the mid-1990s she performed and recorded as part of The Jazz Passengers. Her acting career spans over thirty film roles and numerous television appearances.

Life and early career

Harry was born in Miami, Florida and adopted by Catherine Harry and Richard Smith, gift shop proprietors in Hawthorne, New Jersey. She attended Hawthorne High School, where she graduated in 1963. She graduated from Centenary College in Hackettstown, New Jersey, with an Associate of Arts degree in 1965. Before starting her singing career she moved to New York City in the late 1960s and worked as a secretary at BBC Radio's office there for one year. Later, she was a waitress at Max's Kansas City, after which she was a dancer in Union City, New Jersey, and a Playboy Bunny.

Deborah Harry began her musical career in the late '60s with the folk rock group The Wind in the Willows, who recorded one album for Capitol Records. Harry then joined The Stilettos, with Elda Gentile and Amanda Jones, in 1974. The Stilettos included her eventual boyfriend and Blondie guitarist Chris Stein. When Harry and Stein left the Stilletos, they formed Angel and the Snake, with Tish and Snooky Bellomo. Shortly thereafter, Harry and Stein formed Blondie, naming it for the term of address men often yelled at Harry. Blondie quickly became regulars at Max's Kansas City and CBGB in New York City. After a debut album in 1976, commercial success followed in the late 1970s to the early 1980s, first in Australia and Europe, then in the United States.

While leading Blondie, Harry and Stein became life as well as musical partners, although they never married; Harry has no children. In the mid-1980s, she took a few years off to nurse Stein back to health after he suffered a life-threatening disease. Stein and Harry broke up in the 1990s, but they have continued to work together. In 1999, she was called the 12th greatest woman of rock and roll by VH1's 100 Greatest Women of Rock & Roll and in 2002, she was called the 18th sexiest artist of all time by VH1's 100 Sexiest Artists.

Blondie

With her two-tone bleached-blonde hair, Harry quickly became a punk icon. Her look was further popularized by the band's early presence in the music video revolution of the era. She was a regular at Studio 54. In June 1979, Blondie was featured on the cover of ''Rolling Stone''. Harry's persona, combining cool sexuality with streetwise style, became so closely associated with the group's name that many came to believe "Blondie" was the singer's name. The difference between the individual Harry and the band Blondie was famously highlighted with a "Blondie is a Group" button campaign by the band in 1979. In 1981 Harry issued a press release to clarify that her name was not "Debbie Blondie" or "Debbie Harry", but Deborah Harry, though Harry later described her character in the band as being named "Blondie", as in this quote from the ''No Exit'' tour book:

During 1976 and 1977 Blondie released their first two albums. The second experienced some marginal success outside the United States. However, 1978's ''Parallel Lines'' (US #6, UK #1) shot the group to international success and included the global smash hit single "Heart of Glass." Riding the crest of Disco's domination, the infectious track hit #1 in the US and sold nearly two million copies. The follow-up single "One Way Or Another" reached #24 on Billboard's Hot 100. The album was the band's biggest success, having sold over 6 million copies in the United States alone. The band were also pioneers of the music video movement with ''Eat To The Beat'' being heralded as the first ever music video cassette album.

The release of the platinum-plus ''Eat to the Beat'' album (US #17, UK #1) in 1979 and ''Autoamerican'' (US #7, UK #3) in 1980 continued the band's run of hits, including "Dreaming", Atomic" and three more US #1 singles: "The Tide Is High", "Rapture" and "Call Me" from the soundtrack to the film ''American Gigolo'', which became Billboard's #1 song of 1980.

After a year-long hiatus in 1981, during which Harry released her first solo album (see below), Blondie regrouped and released their sixth studio album ''The Hunter'' (US #33, UK #9). The album met with a disastrous reception, peaking at #33 and falling rapidly off the charts. The single "Island of Lost Souls" briefly cracked the US Top 40. The band's "War Child" was released as a single in the UK. Blondie launched a North American tour to support the release, but it was cut short when Stein fell seriously ill with the rare autoimmune disease, pemphigus. Coupled with declining commercial fortunes, the band split up.

Later in the 1980s, the remix album ''Once More Into The Bleach'' was released, featuring remixes of tracks by Blondie and from Harry's solo career. The mid-1990s saw the release of further Blondie remix albums ''Beautiful'' in Europe and ''Remixed Remade Remodeled'' in the US. New mixes of "Heart of Glass", "Atomic" and "Union City Blue" were released as singles and all made the UK Top 40, while remixes of "Atomic", "Rapture" and "Heart of Glass" had major success on the US dance charts.

Reunion

In 1997, Blondie began working together again for the first time in 15 years. Two tracks were recorded with TV Mania, the production trio of two Duran Duran members, Nick Rhodes and Warren Cuccurullo, and producer Anthony J. Resta. "Studio 54" and "Pop Trash Movie" were scheduled for release on a Blondie compilation, entitled ''This Is Blondie''. However, the project and the tracks were shelved as the four original members (Harry, Stein, Clem Burke and Jimmy Destri) embarked on sessions for what would become Blondie's seventh studio album. During this period, they released a cover of Iggy Pop's "Ordinary Bummer" on the tribute album ''We Will Fall'' (1997).

After a final tour of Europe with The Jazz Passengers in the summer of 1998, Deborah Harry resumed duties as lead vocalist of Blondie. Prior to the release of ''No Exit'', the band completed a sold out tour of Europe. Dates at London's Lyceum Theatre were recorded by the BBC and aired on national BBC Radio 1. A week before the release of ''No Exit'', the lead single "Maria" debuted at No. 1 in the UK, giving Blondie their sixth UK No.1 hit. "Maria" also reached #1 in 14 different countries, the top 10 on the US Dance Charts and Top 15 on the US Adult Top 40 Charts. ''No Exit'' debuted at No.3 in the UK and #17 in the US and Blondie announced dates for a major arena tour that summer, during which they played the Glastonbury Festival and Party in the Park in London. "Nothing Is Real but the Girl" was another UK Top-30 hit, while the title track was released as a limited-edition single to coincide with further arena dates in November of that year.

Tracks culled from dates throughout the 1999 world tour were released as a live album, titled ''Live'' in the US and ''Livid'' in the UK and were released in late 1999 and early 2000, respectively. A ''Blondie Live'' companion DVD was also released, recorded at a show in New York City's The Town Hall.

Although Blondie commenced recording tracks for the follow-up to ''No Exit'' in 2001, the sessions were besieged with problems including the loss of master tapes after the 9/11 terrorist attacks. In the winter of 2002, Blondie returned with a full-scale UK tour. This preceded the release of a new single in 2003 entitled "Good Boys" (a hit across the UK and Europe that autumn, and top 10 on the US Dance Charts the following spring) and the release of Blondie's eighth studio album, ''The Curse of Blondie''. The band toured throughout 2003 and 2004, completing two further full-scale tours of the UK.

A second live album, entitled ''Live By Request'', was released in 2005, along with a companion DVD set. In that year, the band also released the mash-up "Rapture Riders," which combined their 1981 hit "Rapture" with The Doors' "Riders on the Storm". This track was taken from a greatest hits compilation entitled ''Sound and Vision'' (first issued in the UK as ''Sight + Sound''), released with a companion DVD and new mixes of "In the Flesh" and "Good Boys".

In the winter of 2005, Blondie toured the UK for the fourth time in as many years. In 2006, they were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Around this time, Blondie released a new studio track, a cover of Roxy Music's 1982 hit "More Than This". This was to promote their "Road Rage" tour and the single was made available for free download.

At the end of 2006, a new mix of "Heart of Glass" became a club hit in Europe, while Harry released the single "New York New York", a collaboration with Moby. The song debuted on YouTube, some four weeks before its official release.

In the summer of 2007, Blondie toured in the UK once again. Around this time, Harry delineated the different personas (Blondie the band, her role in the band, and Deborah Harry the singer) to an interviewer who asked why she played only solo music on the 2007 True Colors Tour: "I've put together a new trio with no Blondie members in it—I really want to make a clear definition between Debbie's solo projects and Blondie—and I hope that the audience can appreciate that and also appreciate this other material."

On July 3, 2008, Blondie commenced a world tour to celebrate the 30th anniversary of ''Parallel Lines'' with a sell-out concert at the amphitheatre in Ra'anana, Israel. During the tour, drummer Clem Burke stated that the tour had inspired the band to make another record, ''Panic of Girls'', their first new album since the release of ''The Curse of Blondie'' in 2003.

In 2009, Blondie went on tour with Pat Benatar for the "Call Me Invincible" tour. The majority of the shows were opened by The Donnas. In December 2009, Blondie recorded their version of the traditional song "We Three Kings" to coincide with the band's new album.

In the summer of 2010, Blondie began a UK tour, including venues in Newcastle, Manchester, Sheffield and Dublin. They also played festivals including the Isle of Wight and Rockness Festival in Inverness, Scotland. Tracks from their forthcoming album ''Panic of Girls'' were performed during their tour of the UK, notably 'D-Day' and 'What I Heard'. In an interview at the Isle of Wight Festival, drummer Clem Burke indicated that Blondie might return for another tour in 2011, depending on how well the record is received.

Solo albums

Harry has released five solo albums. Harry began her solo career with the Chrysalis Records album ''Koo Koo'' in 1981. The album peaked at #28 in the US and #6 in the UK; it was later certified gold in the US and Silver in the UK. "Backfired", the first single from the album, had a video directed by H. R. Giger (who also painted the album's eye-catching cover featuring Harry's face with metal skewers through it) and climbed to #43 on the Billboard Hot 100, #29 on the Hot Dance Club Songs and #32 on the UK Singles Chart.

In 2006, Harry started work in New York City on tracks for her fifth solo album ''Necessary Evil'' (2007). Working with production duo Super Buddha (who produced the remix of Blondie's "In the Flesh" for the 2005 ''Sound and Vision'' compilation), the first music to surface in was a hip hop track entitled "Dirty and Deep" in which she spoke out against rapper Lil' Kim's incarceration.

Throughout 2006, a number of new tracks surfaced on Harry's MySpace page, including "Charm Alarm", "Deep End", "Love With A Vengeance", "School for Scandal" and "Necessary Evil", as well as duets she recorded with Miss Guy (of Toilet Böys fame). These were "God Save New York" and "New York Groove". A streaming version of the lead single, "Two Times Blue", was added to Harry's MySpace page in May 2007. On 6 June 2007, an iTunes downloadable version was released via her official website.

Harry joined Cyndi Lauper's True Colors Tour for the Human Rights Campaign. She is a strong advocate for gay rights and same-sex marriage. Though she has stated that she identifies as mostly heterosexual, Harry has said she has had intimate relationships with both men and women.

''Necessary Evil'' was released on Eleven Seven Music after Harry completed both a solo tour of the US in June 2007 and a European tour with Blondie in July 2007. The first single, "Two Times Blue", peaked at #5 on the US Dance Club Play chart. The album debuted at #86 in the UK and #37 in the US Billboard Top Independent Albums chart.

To promote the album, Harry appeared on various talk shows to perform "Two Times Blue". She also started a 22-date US tour on November 8, lasting until December 9, playing small venues and clubs across the country. On January 18, 2008, an official music video for "If I Had You" was released.

Other musical projects

In 1983 Harry teamed up with Giorgio Moroder (with whom she had worked previously on Blondie's "Call Me") on the song "Rush Rush," which was featured in the film ''Scarface'' and in the video game ''Grand Theft Auto III''. Harry's single "Feel the Spin", produced by John "Jellybean" Benitez, was released (as a 12" single only) in 1985. That song, along with the whole soundtrack to the film ''Krush Groove'', peaked at #5 on the US Dance Charts. The song's "uno dos tres quatro" intro has been sampled on a number of records, including S'Express' "Theme from S'Express". While recording her fourth album in 1992, Harry collaborated with German heavy metal band Die Haut on the track "Don't Cross My Mind", and released the song "Prelude to a Kiss" on the soundtrack to the film of the same name. She also released a cover of "Summertime Blues" from the soundtrack to the film ''That Night'' in Australia.

In the mid-1990s, Harry teamed up with New York avant-garde jazz ensemble The Jazz Passengers. Between 1994 and 1998 she was a permanent member of the troupe, touring North America and Europe. She was a featured vocalist on their 1994 album ''In Love'' singing the track "Dog In Sand". The follow-up album, 1997's ''Individually Twisted'', is credited as "The Jazz Passengers featuring Deborah Harry" and Harry sings vocals throughout, teaming up with guest Elvis Costello for a cover of "Doncha Go Way Mad". The album also features a re-recorded version of the song "The Tide Is High". A live album entitled ''Live In Spain'', again featuring Harry on vocals, was released in 1998.

Harry collaborated on a number of other projects with other artists. She featured as vocalist on Talking Heads side project The Heads' 1996 release ''No Talking, Just Head'' (performing the title track and "Punk Lolita"). She also sings on a cover of "Strawberry Fields Forever" and on the song "Estrella de Mar" by Argentine band Los Fabulosos Cadillacs. In 1997 she collaborated with Jazz Passenger Bill Ware in his side project Groove Thing, singing lead vocals on the club hit "Command and Obey". Another JP collaboration appeared on the Edgar Allan Poe tribute album ''Closed on Account of Rabies'' (1997). Harry also reunited with Blondie keyboardist Jimmy Destri for a cover of Otis Blackwell's "Don't Be Cruel" for the 1995 tribute album ''Brace Yourself''. During this period, she also recorded a duet with Robert Jacks entitled "Der Einzige Weg (The Only Way) - Theme from Texas Chainsaw Massacre," which was recorded in German and in English, although these did not surface until 1999. Likewise, at the end of 1999, Chrysalis Records released a best of her solo recordings entitled ''Most of All - The Best of Deborah Harry'' and a remix of "I Want That Man".

Aside from writing and recording material for Blondie, Harry pursued various other projects. She appears on the 2001 Bill Ware album ''Vibes 4'' singing the track 'Me and You' as well as on ex-Police guitarist Andy Summers's album ''Peggy's Blue Skylight'' on the track "Weird Nightmare". A techno cover of Stan Jones' "Ghost Riders in the Sky" was featured on the soundtrack to the film ''Three Business Men'' and was available on her website to download. Harry sings on two tracks on Andrea Griminelli's ''Cinema Italiano'' project: "You'll Come To Me" (inspired by ''Amarcord'''s main theme) and "When Love Comes By" (from ''Il Postino''), as well as on a tribute album reinterpreting the music of Harold Arlen, on which she sings the title track "Stormy Weather". In May 2002, she accompanied The Jazz Passengers and the BBC Concert Orchestra in a performance of her jazz material at the Barbican Centre in London. In 2003, she was featured vocalist on the song "Uncontrollable Love" by electro-clash dance producers Blow Up.

Harry also contributed to Fall Out Boy's 2008 album ''Folie à Deux''. She sings on the chorus of the album's closer "West Coast Smoker".

Harry is a credited co-writer on a song called "Supersensual" that appears on Australian singer Natalie Bassingthwaighte's debut album ''1000 Stars''. The song samples the recognizable "woo-ooo-wo-oh" refrain from "Heart of Glass".

Acting roles

Harry appeared on Broadway with Andy Kaufman in the wrestling play ''Teaneck Tanzi''. A retitled version of the British play ''Trafford Tanzi'', the show opened and closed in one night. Later that year Harry, who had already appeared in a number of independent and underground films, made her major motion picture debut in the David Cronenberg film ''Videodrome''.

Following the release of ''Rockbird'', Harry took a number of acting roles including the villainous Velma Von Tussle in John Waters' ''Hairspray'' (1988).

A cover of The Castaways' "Liar Liar" from the soundtrack to the film ''Married to the Mob'' was released as a single in the US. Harry's version of Michael Jay's "Mind Over Matter" was also recorded in this period, but never released. Harry starred in a film called ''Forever Lulu'', also known as ''Crazy Streets'', in 1987 alongside Alec Baldwin. She had only one line but made appearances throughout the film. She also starred in the film ''Intimate Stranger'' as Cory Wheeler, a telephone sex worker being pursued by a serial killer. Harry's other film roles include ''Roadie'', ''Union City'', ''New York Beat Movie'' (otherwise known as ''Downtown '81''), ''Rock & Rule'', ''Tales from the Darkside: The Movie'', ''Six Ways to Sunday'', ''The Fluffer'', ''Cop Land'', ''Heavy'', ''My Life Without Me'', "Spun" and ''Full Grown Men''. Her television appearances include roles on ''Tales from the Darkside'', ''Will & Grace'', ''The Muppet Show'', ''MADtv'', ''Sabrina the Teenage Witch'', ''Absolutely Fabulous'', ''Saturday Night Live'', ''The Adventures of Pete and Pete'', and ''Wiseguy''.

Current projects

Harry is one of the faces of MAC Cosmetics' Viva Glam VI campaign (2006). The campaign donates every cent of the selling price of their lipstick shades to the MAC AIDS Fund, which helps people living with HIV/AIDS worldwide. She is also one of the faces of the RockStars of Science Campaign (2010) alongside other musicians Bret Michaels, Ann & Nancy Wilson of Heart, B.O.B., Keri Hilson, Jay Sean and Timbaland.

She recently completed recording a new album with Blondie titled ''Panic Of Girls'', which will be released on July 4, 2011.

Discography

Studio albums

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''[[Koo Koo''		* Release date: July 27, 1981	* Label: Chrysalis Records	* Formats: Compact cassette	25	—	17	24	17	7	6		CAN: Gold	British Phonographic Industry>UK: Silver	Recording Industry Association of America>US: Gold
''Rockbird''		* Release date: November 29, 1986	* Label: Geffen Records	Compact disc>CD, cassette	97	—	—	—	22	30	31		* UK: Gold
''Def, Dumb and Blonde''		* Release date: October 28, 1989	* Label: Sire Records	* Formats: CD, cassette	123	—	—	—	—	—	12		* UK: Silver
''Debravation''		* Release date: August 1993	* Label: Sire/Reprise Records	* Formats: CD, cassette	—	—	—	—	—	—	24
! scope="row"		* Release date: September 15, 2007	* Label: Eleven Seven Music	* Formats: CD, music download	—	37	—	—	—	—	86

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* ''Heart on a Wall'' (Jimmy Destri album featuring backing vocals by Debbie Harry) (1981)

* ''Halfway to Sanity'' (Ramones album featuring backing vocals by Debbie Harry on 1 song: "Go Lil' Camaro Go") (1987)

Hairspray (1988 soundtrack)>Hairspray: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack'' (Debbie Harry features on the song "Hairspray" by Rachel Sweet)

* ''Like A Girl, I Want You To Keep Coming'' (Various artists CD - Debbie Harry song: "Invocation to Papa Legba") (1989)

* ''Standing in the Spotlight'' (Dee Dee Ramone album featuring backing vocals by Debbie Harry on 2 songs: "Mashed Potato Kid" and "German Kid") (1989)

* ''Big Trash'' (Thompson Twins album featuring backing vocals by Debbie Harry on 1 song: "Sugar Daddy", and spoken-word telephone vocals on "Queen of the USA") (1989)

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* ''Cash Cow'' (Various artists CD - Debbie Harry song: "Moroccan Rock (Pipe of Pain)") (1993)

* ''Heck on Wheels Volume 3'' (Various artists promotional CD - Debbie Harry song: "Communion") (1993)

* ''Head On'' ([[Die Haut">Just Say Da (album)

* ''[[Prelude to a Kiss (film)

* ''Get Out'' (Various artists promotional CD issued with ''Out'' magazine charter subscriptions - Debbie Harry song: "I Want That Man (Remix/Edit)") (1992)

* ''Cash Cow'' (Various artists CD - Debbie Harry song: "Moroccan Rock (Pipe of Pain)") (1993)

* ''Heck on Wheels Volume 3'' (Various artists promotional CD - Debbie Harry song: "Communion") (1993)

* ''Head On'' ([[Die Haut album featuring vocals by Debbie Harry on 1 song: "Don't Cross My Mind") (1993)

* ''Brace Yourself! A Tribute to Otis Blackwell''(various artists tribute album - Debbie Harry song: "Don't Be Cruel") (1994)

* ''In Love'' (The Jazz Passengers featuring Deborah Harry vocals on 1 song: "Dog in Sand") (1994)

* ''Rey Azúcar'' (Los Fabulosos Cadillacs album - Debbie Harry Vocals on 2 songs: "Strawberry Fields Forever" & "Estrella de Mar") (1995)

Virtuosity>Virtuosity Soundtrack'' (Soundtrack album - Debbie Harry vocals on 1 song: "No Talking, Just Head" (with The Heads)) (1995)

* ''No Talking, Just Head'' (The Heads album - Debbie Harry vocals on 1 song: "No Talking, Just Head") (1996)

* ''Individually Twisted'' (The Jazz Passengers featuring Deborah Harry) (1996)

* ''Live In Spain'' (The Jazz Passengers featuring Deborah Harry) (1997)

* ''Six Ways to Sunday

'' (Franz Ferdinand (band)>Franz Ferdinand EP featuring the duet "Live Alone") (2011)

Singles

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Deborah Harry & Iggy Pop	1991	"Well, Did You Evah!"	align="center"
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''Most of All - The Best of Deborah Harry''
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	''Go – The Very Best of Moby''
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Filmography

Features

''Unmade Beds'' (1976)

''Deadly Hero'' (1976)

''The Blank Generation'' (1976) (documentary)

''The Foreigner'' (1978)

''Mr. Mike's Mondo Video'' (1979)

''Union City'' (1980)

''Roadie'' (1980)

''Downtown 81'' (1981)

''Rock & Rule'' (1983 (voice)

''Videodrome'' (1983)

''Terror in the Aisles'' (1984)

''Forever Lulu'' (1987)

''Satisfaction'' (1988)

''Hairspray'' (1988)

''New York Stories'' (1989)

''Tales from the Darkside: The Movie'' (1990)

'''' (1992)

''Body Bags (1993)

''Dead Beat'' (1994)

''Drop Dead Rock'' (1995)

''Heavy'' (1995)

''Wigstock: The Movie'' (1995) (documentary)

''Cop Land'' (1997)

''Six Ways to Sunday'' (1997)

''Joe's Day'' (1998)

''Zoo'' (1999)

''Red Lipstick'' (2000)

''The Fluffer'' (2001)

''Deuces Wild'' (2002)

''Spun'' (2002)

''Grand Theft Auto: Vice City'' (2002) (Voice)

''All I Want'' (2002)

''End of the Century: The Story of the Ramones'' (2003) (documentary)

''My Life Without Me'' (2003)

''A Good Night to Die'' (2003)

''Ghostlight'' (2003)

''The Tulse Luper Suitcases'' (2003)

''Mayor of the Sunset Strip'' (2003) (documentary)

''Picture This: Blondie and Debbie Harry'' (2004) (documentary)

''Kiki and Herb Reloaded'' (2005) (documentary)

''Face Addict'' (2005) (documentary)

''Too Tough to Die: A Tribute to Johnny Ramone'' (2006) (documentary)

''Full Grown Men'' (2006)

''Anamorph'' (2007)

''Elegy'' (2008)

''Hotel Gramercy Park'' (2008) (documentary)

Short subjects

''A New Face of Debbie Harry'' (1982)

''Sandman'' (1996)

''Who Is Harry Smith?'' (1998)

''Drive'' (2002)

''Honey Trap'' (2005)

''Patch'' (2005)

''I Remember You Now...'' (2005)

References

External links

Official sites

Debbie Harry — official website & blog

www.dhbis.com — Deborah Harry & Blondie Mailing List

Deborah Harry discography at Discogs

www.blondie.net/deborah_harry.shtml, Deborah Harry's personal blog on Blondie site

Media links

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame entry

Blondie at Rolling Stone Magazine

Debbie Harry Pop Culture Madness interview

Debbie Harry Interview on ''The Hour'' with George Stroumboulopoulos

Debbie Harry at NNDB

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Coordinates	51°58′47″N5°7′14 }}″N
name	Lorraine Kelly
birth date	November 30, 1959
birth place	Glasgow, Scotland
occupation	Television presenter, journalist
spouse	Steve Smith (5 September 1992-present)
website	http://www.lorrainekelly.tv
children	Rosie }}

Lorraine Kelly (born 30 November 1959, Glasgow, Scotland) is a Scottish television presenter and journalist best known as a presenter for TV-am, and later GMTV and ITV Breakfast, on ''Lorraine''.

Early life

Kelly's father, John, worked as a television repairman. She attended Claremont High School in East Kilbride. She turned down a university place to read English and Russian in favour of a job on the East Kilbride News, her local newspaper, and then joined BBC Scotland as a researcher in 1983. She moved to TV-am as an on-screen reporter covering Scottish news in 1984.

Presenting career

TV-am

In July 1989, Kelly presented TV-am's ''Summer Sunday'' programme with chief reporter Geoff Meade, and in February 1990 she became a main presenter of ''Good Morning Britain'' alongside Mike Morris.

GMTV

Kelly helped launch GMTV in January 1993, and presented a range of programmes, including the main breakfast show with Eamonn Holmes. She presented her show ''GMTV with Lorraine'' which aired Monday to Thursday at 08:35 on GMTV, between 1994 and September 2010.

According to the ''Sunday Mirror'', Kelly was banned from appearing in an advertising campaign for Asda because her boss, GMTV's managing director Clive Couch, feared that such a move would lead to more bad publicity for GMTV, which was fined £2 million by broadcasting regulator Ofcom in September for conning viewers with its premium-rate phone lines.

ITV Breakfast

In September 2010, GMTV came to an end, with ITV Breakfast taking over. ''Lorraine'' launched with a brand new look, alongside ''Daybreak'', and airs every weekday at 8.30am.

Other television work

Kelly presented ''Liquid News'', ''Liquid Eurovision'' and became the national spokeswoman for the United Kingdom during the collation of votes at the Eurovision Song Contest, in both 2003 and 2004, replacing the long-serving Colin Berry.

She has made several appearances on ''Have I Got News for You'' and has also presented it.

From 2004, she co-presented ''This Morning'' with Phillip Schofield, on Mondays and Fridays, to allow Fern Britton to spend more time with her family, but she left in March 2006.

Kelly acted as the guest host for two shows in 2006. Firstly for an episode of ''The Friday Night Project'' for Channel 4 and ''The New Paul O'Grady Show''. She did so again for Paul O'Grady on 30 November 2006, her 47th birthday and owing to sheer popularity, in November 2007 and April 2008.

Kelly also hosted the annual ''Glenfiddich Spirit of Scotland Awards'' in 2005 and 2006 for STV.

Kelly filmed an ITV documentary programme ''Secrets Revealed - DNA Stories'' in 2006, made by STV Productions, and broadcast on Sky Real Lives. A second series was shown on the channel in 2008.

Kelly filmed a six-part documentary series ''Lorraine Kelly's Big Fat Challenge'' shown on Bio in 2010. The series featured Kelly and a team of experts putting 'Britain's fattest family', the Chawner's family through their paces in order to lose weight and transform their lives. Daughter Emma Chawner is best known for her unsuccessful appearances on ''The X Factor''.

In 2010, in conjunction with the Missing People charity, Sky and STV produced a new documentary series hosted by Kelly, about missing mothers. This series followed the success of Sky’s previous successful missing person series ''Missing Children: Lorraine Kelly Investigates''.

In 2011, Kelly was the presenter of the ITV1 series ''Children's Hospital.

Acting

Kelly made a cameo appearance in the BBC Scotland soap opera, ''River City''.

Writing

Kelly writes weekly columns for ''The Sun'' and ''The Sunday Post''.

She was announced as the first Agony Aunt for the Royal Air Force's fortnightly ''RAF News'' on 7 October 2009.

Other interests

Kelly is a celebrity patron of the Association for International Cancer Research.

Awards and honours

In April 1991, Kelly was awarded the TRIC Diamond Jubilee Award for New Talent of the Year.

Between 2004 and 2007, she served a period as the first female Rector of the University of Dundee and on 20 June 2008 she was awarded an honorary Doctor of Laws from the University for her services to charity.

In a survey Kelly was voted the celebrity most people would like to buy a car from. In a recent article from the Daily Mail, Kelly was described as, 'TV's best-loved sofa star'.

Personal life

Kelly is married to Steve Smith, a cameraman she met when she was covering Scotland for TV-am in 1985. They have a daughter, Rosie, who was born in June 1994. Lorraine returned from maternity leave in late 1994 to present her own show, ''Nine O'Clock Live''.

She currently resides in Dundee, with her family when she is not working in London. She previously resided in Berkshire.

Kelly's grandparents emigrated from Draperstown, County Londonderry. On 5 September 2006, on GMTV, she examined her own family tree.

She is a Dundee United fan and attends most games.

She believes and has stated that denominational (single-faith) schools are a cause of sectarianism in Scotland.

Bibliography

''Lorraine Kelly's Nutrition Made Easy'' (Virgin Books, due January 2009)

''Lorraine Kelly's Junk-Free Children's Eating Plan'' (Virgin Books, 2007)

''Lorraine Kelly's Baby and Toddler Eating Plan'' (Virgin Books, 2002/2004/2006)

References

External links

Lorraine Kelly Official website

The Lorraine Kelly Appreciation Society

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Coordinates	51°58′47″N5°7′14 }}″N
name	Jerry Harrison
background	solo_singer
birth name	Jeremiah Griffin Harrison
born	February 21, 1949Milwaukee, Wisconsin United States
instrument	Vocals, Keyboards, Guitar
genre	New Wave music, Indie Pop, Rock and Roll, Art Rock
occupation	Musician, Songwriter, Record Producer
years active	1971–present
label	EMI, Sire
associated acts	Talking Heads The Modern Lovers
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Jerry Harrison (born Jeremiah Griffin Harrison, 21 February 1949, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin) is an American songwriter, musician and producer. He achieved fame as the keyboardist and guitarist for the pioneering New Wave band Talking Heads and as an original member of The Modern Lovers.

Career

Harrison played with Jonathan Richman in The Modern Lovers when he was an architectural student at Harvard University. Harrison was introduced to Richman by mutual friend and journalist Danny Fields and the pair bonded over their shared love of the Velvet Underground. He joined the Modern Lovers in early 1971, playing on their debut album in 1972 (not released until 1976), and left in February 1974 when Richman wished to perform his songs more quietly.

Subsequent to his work with The Modern Lovers, Harrison joined Talking Heads; the latter band already had a single out when Harrison left the Modern Lovers to join them.

Harrison's solo albums include ''The Red and the Black'', ''Casual Gods'', and ''Walk on Water''.

After the 1991 break-up of Talking Heads, Harrison turned to producing and worked on successful albums by bands including the Violent Femmes, The Von Bondies, General Public, Live, Crash Test Dummies, The Verve Pipe, Rusted Root, The Bogmen, Black 47, Of A Revolution, No Doubt, Josh Joplin and most recently The Black and White Years, Kenny Wayne Shepherd, and Bamboo Shoots. He was recently confirmed as the producer of the forthcoming debut album by The Gracious Few.

Film work

Harrison also had a small part in the 2006 film ''The Darwin Awards'' as "Guy in Bar #1" alongside John Doe of the band X.

Discography

Talking Heads

Solo albums

1981 - ''The Red and the Black''

1988 - ''Casual Gods''

1990 - ''Walk on Water''

Singles

Year	Title	!Chart positions	Album
Modern Rock Tracks chart>Modern Rock
1984
1988	"Rev it Up"		''Casual Gods''
1990	"Flying Under Radar"

References

External links

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Coordinates	51°58′47″N5°7′14 }}″N
name	Tina Weymouth
background	solo_singer
birth name	Martina Michèle Weymouth
born	November 22, 1950Coronado, California United States
instrument	Vocals, Bass, Synthesizer, Guitar
genre	New wave, rock and roll, art rock
occupation	Musician, songwriter
label	EMI, Sire
associated acts	Talking HeadsTom Tom ClubGorillaz
website	http://www.tomtomclub.nl/
notable instruments	Höfner 500/2 Club BassVeillette-Citron Standard Bass }}

Martina Michèle "Tina" Weymouth (born November 22, 1950, Coronado, California) is an American musician, best known as a founding member and bassist of the New Wave group Talking Heads and its side project Tom Tom Club (co-founded with husband and Talking Heads drummer Chris Frantz).

Profile

Weymouth is of French heritage on her mother's side. Weymouth was a cheerleader in high school. As a bass guitarist, she combined the minimalist art-punk basslines of groups such as Wire and Pere Ubu with danceable, funk-inflected riffs to provide the bedrock of Talking Heads signature sound. Her sound is often very syncopated (i.e. reggae/funk) in feel, combining low fundamental notes with higher flourishes in clipped, staccato rhythms. Weymouth joined Talking Heads as bass guitarist at the request of then-boyfriend, Chris Frantz.

Life outside Talking Heads

Full members of the Compass Point All Stars, Weymouth and Frantz formed the Tom Tom Club in 1980, which kept them busy during a fairly long hiatus in Talking Heads activity. When it became obvious that Talking Heads frontman David Byrne had no interest in another Talking Heads album, Weymouth, Frantz, and Jerry Harrison reunited without him for a single album called ''No Talking, Just Head'' under the name "The Heads" in 1996, featuring a rotating cast of vocalists.

She also co-produced the Happy Mondays' 1992 album ''Yes Please!'' and has recently contributed backing vocals and percussion for the alternative rock virtual band Gorillaz; the backing vocals were provided for the character Noodle. Weymouth has been critical of Byrne, resenting what she has felt was Byrne's cold treatment of other artists in his personal life.

Weymouth was also a judge for the 2nd annual Independent Music Awards to support independent artists' careers.

Weymouth collaborated with Chicks on Speed on their cover of the Tom Tom Club's "Wordy Rappinghood" for their album ''99 Cents'' in 2003 along with other female musicians such as Miss Kittin, Kevin Blechdom, Le Tigre, and Adult.'s Nicola Kuperus. "Wordy Rappinghood" became a moderate dance hit in Europe, peaking at number five on the Belgian Dance Chart, and at number sixty-six on the UK Singles Chart.

Personal life

Weymouth is the daughter of Vice Admiral Ralph Weymouth (USN, Retired) and Laure "Lo" Weymouth. She and Frantz have been married since 1977. They live in Fairfield, Connecticut and have two sons, Robin and Egan. Tina Weymouth has six other siblings, including Lani and Laura Weymouth, who are collaborators in The Tom Tom Club.

Her older brother, Yann Weymouth, was married to Lally Weymouth, a daughter of Katharine Graham, a publisher of the ''Washington Post'' for many decades. Her niece, Katharine Weymouth, currently serves as publisher of the ''Washington Post''.

Equipment

Höfner 500/2 Club Bass — Two pickup with single-cutaway hollowbody, purchased in 1978

Veillette-Citron Standard 4 String — Neck Through, teal green

Fender Mustang Bass — Used in early Talking Heads performances

Fender Jazz Bass — Used for Tom Tom Club live performances

Steinberger L-Series Bass — Seen during ''Little Creatures'' period

Fender Swinger — Seen in ''Stop Making Sense'' during the performance of This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody)

References

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Coordinates	51°58′47″N5°7′14 }}″N
name	Archduke Franz Ferdinand
succession	Archduke of Austria-Este
reign	1889–1914
reign-tpe	Pretendence
predecessor	Francis II As Archduke of Austria-Este Also Francis V as Duke of Modena
successor	Charles
birth date	December 18, 1863
birth place	Graz, Austrian Empire
death date	June 28, 1914
death place	Sarajevo, Austria-Hungary
spouse	Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg
issue	Princess Sophie von HohenbergMaximilian, Duke of HohenbergPrince Ernst von Hohenberg
house	House of Habsburg-Lorraine
father	Archduke Karl Ludwig of Austria
mother	Princess Maria Annunciata of Bourbon-Two Sicilies
religion	Roman Catholic
signature	Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria Signature.svg }}

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Franz Ferdinand (18 December 1863 – 28 June 1914) was an Archduke of Austria-Este, Austro-Hungarian and Royal Prince of Hungary and of Bohemia, and from 1889 until his death, heir presumptive to the Austro-Hungarian throne. His assassination in Sarajevo precipitated Austria-Hungary's declaration of war against Serbia. This caused the Central Powers (including Germany and Austria-Hungary) and the Allies of World War I (countries allied with Serbia) to declare war on each other, starting World War I.

He was born in Graz, Austria, the oldest son of Archduke Karl Ludwig of Austria (younger brother of Franz Joseph and Maximilian) and of his second wife, Princess Maria Annunciata of Bourbon-Two Sicilies. When he was only twelve years old, his cousin Duke Francis V of Modena died, naming Franz Ferdinand his heir on condition that he add the name Este to his own. Franz Ferdinand thus became one of the wealthiest men in Austria.

Heir presumptive

In 1889, Franz Ferdinand's life changed dramatically. His cousin Crown Prince Rudolf committed suicide at his hunting lodge in Mayerling, leaving Franz Ferdinand's father, Archduke Karl Ludwig, as first in line to the throne. However, his father renounced his succession rights a few days after the Crown Prince's death. Henceforth, Franz Ferdinand was groomed to succeed. Despite this burden, he did manage to find time for travel and personal pursuits - for example, the time he spent hunting kangaroos and emus in Australia in 1893, and the return trip to Austria sailing across the Pacific on the RMS ''Empress of China'' from Yokohama to Vancouver.

Military career

Franz Ferdinand, like most males in the ruling Habsburg line, entered the army from a young age. He was frequently and rapidly promoted, given the rank of lieutenant at age fourteen, captain at twenty-two, colonel at twenty-seven, and major general at thirty-one. While never receiving formal staff training, he was considered eligible for command and at one point briefly led the primarily Hungarian 9th Hussar Regiment. In 1898 he was given a commission "at the special disposition of His Majesty" to make inquiries into all aspects of the military services and military agencies were commanded to share their papers with him.

He exerted influence on the armed forces even when he did not hold a specific command through a military chancery that produced and received documents and papers on military affairs. This was headed by Alexander Brosch von Aarenau and eventually employed a staff of sixteen..

By 1913 Franz Ferdinand, as heir to the elderly emperor, had been appointed inspector general of all the armed forces of Austria-Hungary (''Generalinspektor der gesamten bewaffneten Macht''), a position superior to that previously held by Archduke Albrecht and including presumed command in wartime.

Marriage and family

In 1895 Franz Ferdinand met Countess Sophie Chotek at a ball in Prague. To be an eligible marriage partner for a member of the Imperial House of Habsburg, one had to be a member of one of the reigning or formerly reigning dynasties of Europe. The Choteks were not one of these families, although they did include among their ancestors, in the female line, princes of Baden, Hohenzollern-Hechingen, and Liechtenstein. One of Sophie's direct ancestors was Albert IV, Count of Habsburg; he was descended from Elisabeth of Habsburg, a sister of King Rudolph I of Germany. Franz Ferdinand was a descendant of King Rudolph I. Sophie was a lady-in-waiting to Archduchess Isabella, wife of Archduke Friedrich, Duke of Teschen. Franz Ferdinand began to visit Archduke Friedrich's villa in Pressburg (now Bratislava). Sophie wrote to Franz Ferdinand during his convalescence from tuberculosis on the island of Lošinj in the Adriatic. They kept their relationship a secret for more than two years.

Deeply in love, Franz Ferdinand refused to consider marrying anyone else. Pope Leo XIII, Tsar Nicholas II of Russia, and the German Emperor Wilhelm II all made representations on his behalf to Emperor Franz Joseph of Austria, arguing that the disagreement between Franz Joseph and Franz Ferdinand was undermining the stability of the monarchy.

Finally, in 1899, Emperor Franz Joseph agreed to permit Franz Ferdinand to marry Sophie, on condition that the marriage would be morganatic and that their descendants would not have succession rights to the throne. Sophie would not share her husband's rank, title, precedence, or privileges; as such, she would not normally appear in public beside him. She would not be allowed to ride in the royal carriage or sit in the royal box.

The wedding took place on 1 July 1900, at Reichstadt (now Zákupy) in Bohemia; Franz Joseph did not attend the affair, nor did any archduke including Franz Ferdinand's brothers. The only members of the imperial family who were present were Franz Ferdinand's stepmother, Princess Maria Theresa of Braganza, and her two daughters. Upon the marriage, Sophie was given the title "Princess of Hohenberg" (''Fürstin von Hohenberg'') with the style "Her Serene Highness" (''Ihre Durchlaucht''). In 1909, she was given the more senior title "Duchess of Hohenberg" (''Herzogin von Hohenberg'') with the style "Her Highness" (''Ihre Hoheit''). This raised her status considerably, but she still yielded precedence at court to all the archduchesses. Whenever a function required the couple to gather with the other members of royalty, Sophie was forced to stand far down the line of importance, separated from her husband.

Franz Ferdinand's children were:

Princess Sophie von Hohenberg (1901–1990), married Count Friedrich von Nostitz-Rieneck (1891–1973)

Maximilian, Duke of Hohenberg (1902–1962), married Countess Elisabeth von Waldburg zu Wolfegg und Waldsee (1904–1993)

Prince Ernst von Hohenberg (1904–1954), married Marie-Therese Wood (1910–1985)

Character

The German historian Michael Freund described Franz Ferdinand as "a man of uninspired energy, dark in appearance and emotion, who radiated an aura of strangeness and cast a shadow of violence and recklessness ... a true personality amidst the amiable inanity that characterized Austrian society at this time." As his sometime admirer Karl Kraus put it, "he was not one who would greet you ... he felt no compulsion to reach out for the unexplored region which the Viennese call their heart." His relations with Emperor Franz Joseph were tense; the emperor's personal servant recalled in his memoirs that "thunder and lightning always raged when they had their discussions." The commentaries and orders which the heir to the throne wrote as margin notes to the documents of the Imperial central commission for architectural conservation (where he was Protector) reveal what can be described as "choleric conservativism."

Franz Ferdinand had a fondness for trophy hunting that was excessive even by the standards of European nobility of this time. In his diaries he kept track of an estimated 300,000 game kills, 5,000 of which were deer. A small fraction of the trophies were on exhibit at his Bohemian castle at Konopiště which he also stuffed with various antiquities, his other great collection passion.

Political views

Historians have disagreed on how to characterize the political philosophies of Franz Ferdinand, some attributing generally liberal views on the empire's nationalities while others have emphasized his dynastic centralism, Catholic conservatism, and tendency to clash with other leaders. Yet his feelings towards the Hungarians were less generous; he regarded Magyar nationalism as a revolutionary threat to the Habsburg dynasty and reportedly became angry when officers of the 9th Hussars Regiment (which he commanded) spoke Magyar in his presence - despite the fact that it was the official regimental language. He further regarded the Hungarian branch of the Dual Monarchy's army, the Honvédség, as an unreliable and potentially threatening force within the empire, complaining at the Hungarians' failure to provide funds for the joint army and opposing the formation of artillery units within the Hungarian forces.

He also advocated a careful approach towards Serbia - repeatedly locking horns with Franz Conrad von Hötzendorf, Vienna's hard-line Chief of the General Staff, warning that harsh treatment of Serbia would bring Austria-Hungary into open conflict with Russia, to the ruin of both Empires.

He was disappointed when Austria-Hungary failed to act as a Great Power, such as during the Boxer Rebellion; in 1900 other nations, including, in his description, "dwarf states like Belgium and Portugal", sent troops to protect Westerners and punish the Chinese, but Austria-Hungary did not.

Franz Ferdinand was a prominent and influential supporter of the Austro-Hungarian Navy in a time when sea power was not a priority in Austrian foreign policy and the Navy was relatively little known and supported by the public. After his assassination in 1914, the Navy honoured Franz Ferdinand and his wife with a lying in state aboard the SMS Viribus Unitis.

Assassination

On Sunday, 28 June 1914, at approximately 1:15 pm, Franz Ferdinand and his wife were killed in Sarajevo, the capital of the Austro-Hungarian province of Bosnia and Herzegovina, by Gavrilo Princip, 19 at the time, a member of Young Bosnia and one of a group of assassins organized by the Black Hand. The event led to a chain of events that eventually triggered World War I.

The couple had previously been attacked when a grenade was thrown at their car. Ferdinand deflected the grenade and it detonated far behind them. He is known to have shouted in anger to local officials, "So you welcome your guests with bombs?!"

The royal couple insisted on seeing all those injured at the hospital. After travelling there, Franz and Sophie decided to go to the palace, but their driver took a wrong turn onto a side street, where Princip spotted them. As the car was backing up, Princip approached and shot Sophie in the abdomen and Franz Ferdinand in the jugular. He was still alive when witnesses arrived to render aid. His dying words to Sophie were, 'Don't die darling, live for our children.' Princip had used the Browning .32 ACP cartridge, a relatively low-power round, and a pocket-sized FN model 1910 pistol. The archduke's aides attempted to undo his coat but realized they needed scissors to cut it open. It was too late; he died within minutes. Sophie also died en route to the hospital.

A detailed account of the shooting can be found in ''Sarajevo'' by Joachim Remak:

One bullet pierced Franz Ferdinand's neck while the other pierced Sophie's abdomen. ... As the car was reversing (to go back to the Governor's residence because the entourage thought the Imperial couple were unhurt) a thin streak of blood shot from the Archduke's mouth onto Count Harrach's right cheek (he was standing on the car's running board). Harrach drew out a handkerchief to still the gushing blood. The Duchess, seeing this, called: "For Heaven's sake! What happened to you?" and sank from her seat, her face falling between her husband's knees.

Harrach and Potoriek ... thought she had fainted ... only her husband seemed to have an instinct for what was happening. Turning to his wife despite the bullet in his neck, Franz Ferdinand pleaded: "''Sopherl! Sopherl! Sterbe nicht! Bleibe am Leben für unsere Kinder!'' - Sophie dear! Don't die! Stay alive for our children!". Having said this, he seemed to sag down himself. His plumed hat ... fell off; many of its green feathers were found all over the car floor. Count Harrach seized the Archduke by the uniform collar to hold him up. He asked "''Leiden Eure Kaiserliche Hoheit sehr?'' - Is Your Imperial Highness suffering very badly?" "Es ist nichts - It is nothing" said the Archduke in a weak but audible voice. He seemed to be losing consciousness during his last few minutes, but, his voice growing steadily weaker, he repeated the phrase perhaps six or seven times more.

A rattle began to issue from his throat, which subsided as the car drew in front of the Konak bersibin (Town Hall). Despite several doctors' efforts, the Archduke died shortly after being carried into the building while his beloved wife was almost certainly dead from internal bleeding before the motorcade reached the Konak.

The assassinations, along with the arms race, nationalism, imperialism, militarism, and the alliance system all contributed to the Origins of World War I, which began less than two months after Franz Ferdinand's death, with Austria-Hungary's declaration of war against Serbia. The assassination of Ferdinand is considered the most immediate cause of World War I.

Franz Ferdinand is interred with his wife Sophie in Artstetten Castle, Austria. Video: Franz Ferdinand's Funeral

Present-day commemorations

Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his Castle of Artstetten were selected as a main motif for the Austrian 10 euro The Castle of Artstetten commemorative coin, minted on 13 October 2004. The reverse shows the entrance to the crypt of the Hohenberg family. There are two portraits below, showing Archduke Franz Ferdinand and his wife Sophie, Duchess of Hohenberg.

See also

List of heirs to the Austrian throne

Ancestry

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References

Notes

External links

Archduke Francis Ferdinand d'Este (in Czech language)

Francis Ferdinand at Findagrave.com

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