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Leigh Foxx has surpassed the 20-year mark as Blondie’s bassist. His relationship with Debbie Harry and Chris Stein spans over 30 years as it began when he joined Debbie’s solo band and first performed with them on Saturday Night Live in January, 1987.
Session musicians Leigh Foxx (bass) and Paul Carbonara (guitar) played on this and subsequent Blondie releases. [54]
Together with Debbie, Chris, and Clem, they were joined by band members Leigh Foxx, guitarist Tommy Kessler and keyboardist Matt Katz-Bohen and took to the studio. “I had more of a deliberate agenda than they did,” says John.
News about Leigh Foxx, bassist for the rock band Blondie. Here are some pictures of Leigh in Campione, Italy with Debbie, Clem and the hostess of the Maschera d'Oro (Golden Mask) award show.
- A Tumble of Ideas
- Glimpse Into The Future
- Radical Movement
- New Possibilities
- The Lava Still Flows
But that’s getting ahead of the story. The band that would become Ultravox! began to coalesce in 1973, when Leigh, soon to be Foxx, a student at the Royal College of Art, went looking for musical collaborators and recruited Chris Cross (bass, real name Chris Allen), Stevie Shears (guitar), Warren Cann (drums) and multi-instrumentalist Billy Currie....
The cover of Ultravox!shows the quintet standing in front of a grimy wall, below a neon sign of the band’s name. At first glance, it’s a simple image of the cityscapes through which the band were moving. Yet while Ultravox!is the most straight-ahead rock’n’roll album the band ever made, less obviously it’s also an image that reflects Foxx’s interes...
Ultravox!was unleashed on a world where punk was about to break big. Foxx loved punk’s energy but understood early on that its three-chord aesthetic would become limiting. “You know, since art school, I’d been fascinated by the way all so-called radical movements evolve and decay,” he says. “They start with a great idea, then inevitably erect rigid...
It was also the jumping-off point for the band’s third album, Systems Of Romance. “The table was cleared and we found ourselves in a place that no-one else occupied,” says Foxx. “At that point, we’d consciously got rid of all the rock clichés, and any blues and rock Americanisms, and devised a new territory, mainly concerned with Europe.” Reflectin...
The Foxx-fronted Ultravox didn’t go out with a whimper, though. In early 1979, they embarked on their first US tour. “We bought the cheapest tickets we could, crammed our equipment in the luggage hold as ‘excess baggage’, and rented a station wagon to drive ourselves from gig to gig, remembers Cann. “You really couldn’t have done it on any more of ...
Comprised of singer-songwriter Debbie Harry, guitarist and co-writer Chris Stein, powerhouse drummer Clem Burke, and long-time band members bassist Leigh Foxx, guitarist Tommy Kessler and keyboardist Matt Katz-Bohen, Blondie’s chart-topping success, fearless spirit and rare longevity led to an induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in ...
Sep 5, 2022 · Sex Pistols’ Glen Matlock is to appear on Blondie's new album, where he'll be stepping in for bassist Leigh Foxx. The bassist previously stepped in for Leigh Foxx on the band's UK and US tour...
