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The Deborah Harry song catalog you find on this page was compiled by me, the webmaster, with the help of my personal record collection, booklets, biographies, setlists, ASCAP, the LoC (Library of Congress), articles and (live) bootlegs. It's my goal to create a page which features Deborah's complete musical body of work, no matter if Deborah was in any way musically involved herself or whether she contributed her own lyrics to a project. In order to keep up the standard of this page and to make it grow you can help by submitting song titles and/or information which are missing on this site. Every contribution is greatly appreciated. Official song lyrics were taken from booklets. I transcribed those songs myself where no official lyrics were available (with no guarantee for their accuracy). I apologize for possible errors and will gladly take corrections. I kindly ask you not to copy any of these lyrics from this page.
All song pages include links to the albums, singles and/or live albums which they were released on. Best Ofs and soundtracks were only listed if there is a special mix available on the record or the song title itself was previously unreleased.

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INFO

length: 4:22
lyrics by: Debbie Harry
translation and additional lyrics: Hossan Ramsey
produced by: Chris Stein
recorded at: Rednight/Rossannoland Studios, New York, AIR Studios and Boundary Row Studios, London
engineered by: Michael O'Hara (New York) and Michael Scherchen (London)
final remix: Geoff Foster, London July 1991
vocals: Debbie Harry
synthesizers: Chris Stein
electric percussion: Chris Stein
Egyptian percussion: Hossan Ramsey
Gimbri (Joujouka horn): Bachir Attar

 

FEATURED ON

Cash Cow: The Best of Giorno Poetry Systems [compilation] (1993)


REMIXES & OTHER VERSIONS

[no official remixes available]

MOROCCAN ROCK (PIPE OF PAIN) (DEBBIE AND THE PIPES OF PAN IN NEW YORK)

(Egyptian Arabic lyrics)

[translation:
I am beautiful, the land is beautiful
Let me take you to paradise

I am beautiful, the land is beautiful
Let me take you to paradise

I am beautiful, the land is beautiful
Let me take you to paradise

I am beautiful, the land is beautiful
Let me take you to paradise

I am beautiful, the land is beautiful
Let me take you to paradise

I am beautiful, the land is beautiful
Let me take you to paradise

I am beautiful, the land is beautiful
I am beautiful, the land is beautiful
Let me take you to paradise
to paradise

I am beautiful, the land is beautiful
Let me take you to paradise]

COMMENTS

quoted from Chris Stein's music MySpace page - June 28, 2006:

"'MOROCCAN ROCK/PIPES OF PAIN' title is a reference to the only album produced by Brian Jones: "THE PIPES OF PAN AT JAJOUKA" one of my all time favorite recordings... playing on our track is BASHIR ATTAR, well known Moroccan musician and son of one of the Jajouka musicians who played on the Jones record... Bashir went full cycle by playing on the Stones "STEEL WHEELS" (i think that was the one with his track) the percussion is by HOSSAN RAMSEY who we met in London, he did the Lyric translation with Debbie... she's singing in an Egyptian dialect... song was finished in London in '91"

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