Nigel Harrison

Nigel Harrison born 24 April 1951 is an English musician Harrison spent several years as the bassist of the American rock band Blondie during the 1970s and 1980s Harrison grew up in Princes Risborough a small town in the Chiltern Hills He was the bassist for the local band Farm and later recorded and toured with Silverhead fronted by Michael Des Barres from 1972 to 1974 On August 11 1974 he played bass for Murder of a Virgin Iggy Pops first solo performance He was also an uncredited session bassist for The Runaways debut album when producer and manager Kim Fowley refused to have Runaways bassist Jackie Fox perform on the record He was recruited to Blondie from Nite City former The Doors keyboardist Ray Manzareks shortlived 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 cowrote several hit singles with Debbie Harry such as One Way or Another Union City Blue and the bands last single with their most successful lineup War Child released in 1982 From 1982 to 1984 he was a member of the band Chequered Past which also included two of his former bandmates Des Barres from Silverhead Steve Jones from The Sex Pistols and Clem Burke from Blondie They released an eponymous album in 1984 Harrison was also music supervisorproducer for the soundtrack to the 1988 comedy Tapeheads In 1991 he had a small part in a British film Young Soul Rebels as Cid Man When Blondie started to talk about reforming in 1997 Harrison was initially asked to rejoin the group He recorded demo tracks with the band for the album No Exit 1999 but was dropped from the band before the record was finished He and another excluded former member Frank Infante brought a lawsuit over the dispute but were unsuccessful Harrison was an AR Executive at Interscope Records and also did AR work for Capitol Records Harrison later became the bass player for The Grabs whose album Sex Fashion And Money was released in November 2005 In March 2006 Blondie following an introductory speech by Shirley Manson of Garbage were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Seven members were invited to the ceremony which led to an onstage spat between the extant group and Infante who asked during the live broadcast of the ceremony that he and Harrison be allowed to perform with the group a request refused by Debbie Harry who stated that the bands current lineup had already prepared and rehearsed for the performance Harrison continues playing with various acts including The Rua on the 2015 album The Essence Source Article Nigel Harrison from Wikipedia in English licensed under CCBYSA 30