Nina Perrson, lead singer of the Cardigans
Source page: http://cardigans.com/Frames/Profiles/nina.html
Melody Maker (London), May 22, 1999
Revised version of original interview (and sidebars) published in Melody Maker, in which Nina Persson of the Cardigans and Deborah Harry compare notes--musical and otherwise--and whose careers and music seem to run along Parallel Lines--Ed.
Nina Perrson, lead singer of the Cardigans
Source page: http://cardigans.com/Frames/Profiles/nina.html
What could be better than a decade-defining blonde pop icon? Erm, how about two of 'em? We introduce THE CARDIGANS' Nina Persson to her Seventies prototype, BLONDIE's Debbie Harry, to find out whether blondes really do have more fun....
....Sidebar: BLONDIE AMBITION: BLONDIE
ON BEING NUMBER ONE AGAIN
SO TELL ME HOW IT ALL STARTED: YOU CAN LIE IF YOU WANT.
CLEM BURKE (drums): We can lie? Well, all right!
JIMMY DESTRI (keyboards): For me, it all started when James Brown punched me
in the chest. I was a little kid, fetching some tea and donuts from the corner
store when James punches me. He goes, "'Huh! I thought you were the kid
who stole my wallet!'" Uncle James! He soon put me to work cleaning his
classic car collection. That's what gave me the bug--these old jazz guys doing
rock'n'roll licks for the money at the Peppermint Lounge--that was my epiphany
when I was 11, 12 years old. It happened to Clem [Burke, drums] the same time,
when he was 10--Chris [Stein, guitars] and Debbie, too. Debbie once wrote a
song called "English Boys," where she clearly stated that....