Beyond his era-defining music with Blondie, Stein has collaborated with a host of artists over the years, including Andy Warhol, Jean-Michel Basquiat, William Burroughs, Devo, Glenn O’Brien, and Shepard Fairey.

From an irreverent Lower East Side punk goddess to a bona fide international ambassador of New York cool, Debbie Harry will forever be synonymous with that punk spirit that lives somewhere in all of us. The poster is artistic,” snapped Debbie, “Giger was having acupuncture treatment when I asked him to design the poster. He offers a local’s view of the far-from-gentrified East Village neighborhood where he lived, and where the punk movement emerged.Science fiction and ancient Egyptian cultures are extremely important for me, and I follow eastern spiritual and health practices, including acupuncture, so I’m geeking out hugging the book to my face. Blondie reunited in the late 1990s, releasing No Exit (1999), followed by The Curse of Blondie (2003). A mini-train ride through the vines outside the house take visitors on a haunted house ride through birth, life, and death. It was a match of rock and sci-fi, something the MTV generation had seen everywhere from a Dire Strait famous music video to David Bowie’s Starman and Major Tom and nearly everything about Devo.

Harry and her partner/bandmate, Chris Stein, had met Giger in 1980 at a show in New York of his paintings. Dismissed for decades by the mainstream art scene for Giger’s popular status in Hollywood, Alien indeed made Giger famous just as Giger made Alien famous. With an introduction by Debbie Harry, the book is a must for fans of Blondie, the punk rock scene, science fiction history, and all things 1980s. Stein chronicled the band’s early beginnings on camera, from the nascent New York punk scene to the international celebrities they worked with, including Andy Warhol.KooKoo was produced by Nile Rodgers and Bernard Edwards of Chic and marked Harry’s first foray into the music industry without the rest of Blondie. While Deb­bie Har­ry pur­sued the act­ing she had start­ed in punk rock film­mak­er Amos Poe’s works, she also went the solo album route.

R. Giger, acclaimed for his designs for Ridley Scott’s movie Alien in 1979, had superimposed needles on a portrait of Debbie’s face taken by photographer Brian Aris. R Giger's contribution to Debbie Harry's first solo project and possibly her most ambitious of the five albums she has recorded. The Against the Odds 1974 – 1982 collection will contain three dozen previously unreleased recordings. And he shares previously unpublished images of such iconic figures of the era as Debbie Harry, his musical partner in Blondie; Andy Warhol; Iggy Pop; David Bowie; and the Ramones. Recently,” he added, “I’ve been trying acupuncture, hence the needles as well as the ‘punk’ with the word acupuncture.

It continues with photos of the studio, work-in-progress Polaroids by Giger and his crew, and Giger’s drawings. He has also collaborated with artists including Andy Warhol, Jean-Michel Basquiat, William Burroughs and Devo. It was in one way a throw­back to Giger’s oth­er famous record cov­er, the one for Emer­son, Lake, and Palmer’s Brain Sal­ad Surgery. As a vibrant global force and a shaper of pop culture, Debbie’s chart-topping success, fearless spirit and rare longevity led to an induction into the Rock ‘N’ Roll Hall of Fame for Blondie in 2006. Like the rest of the world since, Stein was taken with Harry’s charisma, her spirit and – of course – her style.