Rockbird

Rockbird is the second solo album by American singer and actress Debbie Harry, released in November 1986 on Geffen Records.

Album information

Rockbird was Harry's second solo album, and came four years after the split of Blondie in 1982. Harry had largely put her music career on hold during the mid-1980s in order to look after boyfriend Chris Stein who had been diagnosed with a serious illness. The album was produced by Seth Justman, a key member of the J. Geils Band. Released in November 1986, there were four variations of the album artwork with the lettering in either green, orange, pink and yellow (with slight variations due to printing techniques). These for colours lettering on the album is done by Stephen Sprouse. Same colours and lettering he used for his Graffiti series of bags and T-shirts for Louis Vuitton. And also a book about Sprouse is issued in four similar coloured covers.

The album peaked at #32 in the UK, and remained in the charts for 11 weeks. Although one of her lowest charting solo albums in the UK to date, it was ironically the highest selling and was certified "Gold" by the BPI in January 1987 for sales in excess of 100,000 copies. Due to lack of record company promotion, the album was far less successful in the US, peaking at #97 on Billboard's album charts.