Song of the Day: 'Pop Trash' (live) by Duran Duran

Well the timing of my seeing this sure seems right given Pedro Almovodar's decades-after-the-fact dig against Madonna. Warren Cuccurullo -- who gained fame with Missing Persons before replacing Andy Taylor in Duran Duran and becoming even more (in)famous for posing nude and making SEX TAPES -- apparently wasn't too pleased with Debbie Harry's remem(oir)brance of working with the Durans during Blondie's reformation in the mid-1990s:

Debbie wrote:

To which Warren responded:

Some clarification needed with a bonus message to the ungrateful fat soulless witch that continues to refer to herself as Debbie Harry. This is the masterpiece i wrote for you. You hated nick's lyrics. You begrudgingly sang it anyway, with the flu. Memory failing you? Oh, before i forget, amino acids are not drugs. I guess one should never expect someone with your history to understand a healthy bodybuilding lifestyle. Get your stories straight bitch! #FACESIT. #sex&Health&RocknRoll

Ouch!

A couple things:

"Pop Trash Movie" was far from a masterpiece. Debbie does sounds like she had the flu when she recorded it. (To be honest, I'm wondering if it's the same ailment she had throughout the entire recording sessions for the Jazz Passengers' "Individually  Twisted" -- yikes!) Debbie (and the boys) did end up going the wrong direction on "No Exit," but Duran Duran's contributions were hardly the solution. As Debbie mentioned in her book, Blondie also recorded Gary Valentine's "Amor Fati" -- which like Jimmy Destri-penned "Maria" and "Nothing Is Real but the Girl" and Chris Stein's "Under the Gun" -- sounds like a real Blondie song yet they chose not to include it (or Valentine) for the reunion, one of several missteps that was only exacerbated by Jimmy's firing. As fate would have it, Gary posted Blondie's demo on Facebook over the weekend. Look for it here tomorrow!

P.S. Would it surprise anyone to learn Warren is a Trump supporter?

Here is Simon LeBon's more diplomatic recollection of Blondie and "Pop Trash Movie."

I'd Tumble 4 Them

Loved Michael Musto's list of the 10 Cutest Guys From the 1980s New Wave. Did my own and found we had surprisingly little overlap.

Simon LeBon and Nick Rhodes were all the girls at Dobson High ever talked about. But Roger Taylor was the stud in the band for me. 

Bono who? Larry Mullen Jr. was all I was looking at back in U2's heyday ...

The Kemp brothers were handsome, but Spandau Ballet saxophonist/jack-of-all-instruments Steve Norman (and Larry) had me doubting I wasn't "into blond guys." 

Kooky-looking Dale and Terry Bozzio were the focal point of Missing Persons, but guitarist Warren Cuccurullo (left) was the sexy one ... 

and he only got sexier when he joined Duran Duran and started dabbling in home-made pornography.

Easy to see why Boy George was so lovesick back in the '80s -- his bicurious drummer boyfriend, Jon Moss, could cause anyone's self-esteem to take a tumble.

Pretty boys aren't usually my thing, but Adam Ant had just the right hint of masculinity mixed in to make him irresistible.

Tony Hadley of Spandau Ballet is the dictionary definition of tall, dark and handsome.

Annabella Lwin was an underage sex kitten, but I barely noticed she was in Bow Wow Wow with David Barbarossa behind her on drums.

Michael Hutchence was definitely sexy, but I always thought the hottest man in INXS was Jon Farriss. Maybe I have a thing for drummers.

Lloyd Cole's face was almost as sexy as his brain.

BONUS BOYS:

Not that I'd kick John Taylor out of bed for smoking cloves.

  Nick Heyward was the pretty-boy face of Haircut 100. But percussionist Mark Fox -- who became lead singer after Nick's nervous breakdown -- was my love plus one.

He was a pretty boy, indeed, but KajaGooGoo singer Limahl was too cute to resist.

UPDATE:

Billy Idol should have been on there, huh?