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By 2004, Destri retired from touring with the band, but he intended to keep working with them in the studio. However, he played no part in the writing or recording of their next album (2011's Panic of Girls ), effectively ending his tenure in the band.
Sep 19, 2020 · Around the time of the breakup, the band had everything going for them. Following their success in the late 1970s, lead singer Debbie Harry and keyboardist Jimmy Destri both released solo albums. The band also released an acclaimed greatest hits album and embarked on a North American tour to promote their latest studio album, The Hunter.
In 2004, Jimmy Destri left the group in order to deal with drug addiction, leaving Harry, Stein and Burke as the only members of the original line-up still with the band. Though Destri's stint in rehab was successful, he was not invited back into the band. [ 56 ]
My uncle - my mother's youngest brother - was the drummer for a late 50s early 60s rock band called Joey Dee & the Starlighters who had a hit record in America. They were on the Dick Clark show and I saw my Uncle Joe on TV and said, "That's what I want to do!"
Oct 3, 2023 · Keyboardist Jimmy Destri composed or wrote several of Blondie’s hit songs, including ‘Atomic’, ‘Picture This’, ‘Nothing is Real but the Girl’, and ‘No Exit’. He also penned the lead single on No Exit , ‘Maria’, which, although very different from ‘Atomic’, became reminiscent of the bouncy flavour of the band’s ...
Destri, originator of the band's unique punk-pop synth sound and writer/lyricist of half of the band's catalog -- including three of the band's seven #1 hits, "Atomic", "Picture This" and the group's meteoric 1999 comeback song "Maria" -- and a 25 year drug addict, is now clean, sober and using his talents to cure other addicts.
In 1998 after 16 years apart the band's 4 main founding core members - singer Deborah Harry, keyboardist Jimmy Destri, drummer Clem Burke and guitarist Chris Stein got back together, added a couple of new members to the line-up and recorded their hugely successful comeback album No Exit.
