Nigel Harrison

Nigel Harrison
Birth name	Nigel Harrison
Born	24 April 1951 (1951-04-24) (age 60) Stockport, Cheshire, England
Genres	Rock
Occupations	Musician
Instruments	Bass

Nigel Harrison (born 24 April 1951, Stockport, Cheshire, England) is an English musician, and best known as the bass player of the rock band Blondie.

In the early 1970s Harrison lived in Princes Risborough near Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire. 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. He was recruited from former Doors' keyboardist Ray Manzarek's short lived band "Nite City" by Blondie in 1977 and stayed with the band until their single "War Child" (which he co-wrote) was 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, and Clem Burke, from Blondie. They released an eponymous album in 1984. Harrison was also music supervisor/producer for the soundtrack to the 1988 comedy Tapeheads.

When Blondie started to talk about re-forming 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.^[1]

He is now 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,^[2][3] were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Seven members were invited to the ceremony, which led to an on-stage spat between the extant group and their former bandmates, Nigel Harrison and Frank Infante, who asked during the live broadcast of the ceremony to be allowed to perform with the group, a request refused by Harry.^[4]

References

1. ^ Skynyrd, Sabbath, Blondie join rock's elite - MUSIC - MSNBC.com
2. ^ "Shirley inducts Blondie to Rock & Roll Hall of Fame!". garbage.com. http://www.garbage.com/news/news.php?uid=330. Retrieved 2007-09-27. 
3. ^ "Mayhem and Conflict at the Hall of Fame!!!". Blondie.net. Archived from the original on December 11, 2007. http://web.archive.org/web/20071211155127/http://archive.blondie.net/2006_03_16_blondie_chris_stein_archive.shtml. Retrieved 2007-09-27. 
4. ^ Montgomery, James (2006-03-14). "Metallica Thud, Blondie Feud At Rock Hall Of Fame Ceremony". MTV. http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1526082/20060314/metallica.jhtml?headlines=true. Retrieved 2006-07-24. 

External links

• Nigel Harrison^{[dead link]} at Allmusic
• Nigel Harrison at the Internet Movie Database
• www.myspace.com/thegrabs

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