NIGEL HARRISON
Nigel Harrison (born 24 April 1951 in Stockport, Cheshire, England) is an English musician, and best known as the bass player of the rock band Blondie. He was recruited to Blondie from Nite City (former The Doors’ keyboardist Ray Manzarek’s short-lived band) in 1977 after the band recorded their second album Plastic Letters without a regular bass player and stayed until the band split after Tracks Across America Tour ’82. During his time with Blondie, Nigel Harrison contributed as a songwriter to every album he played on and also co-wrote several hit singles with Debbie Harry, such as “One Way or Another”, “Union City Blue” and the band’s last single with their original line-up, “War Child”, released in 1982. (More from Wikipedia)
At this point, the Runaways was signed by Mercury Records and released their first album, The Runaways in 1976. The credits for the bandmembers on the back of the album included their ages (most were 16 or younger as I recall), thus cementing Kim Fowley’s Svengali reputation. Fowley refused to let Jackie Fox play on the debut album, so Blondie bass guitarist Nigel Harrison filled in.
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