The Blondie bassist Nigel Harrison celebrates 74 today
In 1974 he played bass on Iggy Pop’s first solo performance and did session work for acts like The Runaways before being recruited into Blondie in 1977
The Blondie bassist Nigel Harrison celebrates 74 today
Nigel Douglas Harrison was born on 24 April 1951 in Stockport, Cheshire, England. Growing up in the Chiltern Hills town of Princes Risborough, he picked up bass guitar as a teenager and cut his teeth in local bands before touring with Michael Des Barres’s Silverhead in the early 1970s. In 1974 he played bass on Iggy Pop’s first solo performance and did session work for acts like The Runaways before being recruited into Blondie in 1977. As the band’s bassist through their golden era, he anchored hits on albums such as “Parallel Lines,” “Eat to the Beat” and “Autoamerican,” co-writing classics like “One Way or Another,” “Union City Blue” and “War Child.” After Blondie’s 1982 split he joined Chequered Past, moved into A&R executive roles with major labels, and later returned to performing with groups like The Grabs and, more recently, The Rua.
Watch the 1979 music video “Union City Blue” by Blondie
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