As Blondie's career progressed, Destri became increasingly interested in synthesizers, and added them along with his Farfisa to the overall band's sound.

In an interview in the magazine that is part of the collector ’ s edition for the ninth Blondie studio album Panic of Girls, Debbie Harry explained that band members Chris Stein and Jimmy Destri had purchased the CR-78 from a music store on 47th Street in Manhattan, and that this is how the device had become part of the production of " Heart of Glass ": “ Chris and Jimmy were always going over to 47th Street where all the music stores were, and one day they came back with this little rhythm box, which went ‘ tikka tikka tikka ’… And the rest is history !”

After the movingly personal 12 Haunted Episodes, and 1996's Acid Bubblegum ( featuring Jimmy Destri of Blondie on keyboards ), Parker grew quiet in the late 1990s.

Known for special guest appearances, Bootsy Collins, Tina Weymouth, Chris Frantz, Jimmy Destri, Mike Watt, Rah Digga and Gary Lucas are some of the artists who have sat in with the group during live performances.

The album featured guest appearances from Ronnie Spector, Jimmy Destri, Ed Manion, and John Cafiero.

Jimmy Destri ( born James Mollica, April 13, 1954, Brooklyn, New York ) is an American musician.

Destri stopped touring with the band in 2004, but remained an official member of the band for several more years.

His sister, Donna Destri, also sang back up on the Blondie song " Living in the Real World.

After the band's break-up in 1982, Destri ran a company that bought, renovated, and sold old buildings.

Written by the band's keyboardist Jimmy Destri, the song was released as a single in the UK on June 12, 1999 in various formats.

Destri wrote the song with his daughter in mind ; however, when the song was re-recorded for the single release, the narrative was changed from the third person to the first, shifting the focus of the song onto vocalist Debbie Harry.

so Cyrus Adler became interested in her friend Racie Friedenwald, and Joe Jastrow -- the only young man who when he wrote had the temerity to address her as Henrietta, and signed himself Joe -- fell in love with pretty sister Rachel.

He became particularly interested in graduating and precision measurement during the 1840's, and his thinking along these lines developed considerably during this period.

After Gagarin became the Greatest Man in the World, for a nation that does not believe in the cult of personality or in careerism, Moreland wrote me a letter in which he said: `` I am not interested in how long a bee can live in a vacuum, or how far it can fly.

a review of the philosophy of Communist leaders by Ted Slack, another real estate agent who became interested as a philosophy major at the University of Miami ; ;

Van Vogt was always interested in the idea of all-encompassing systems of knowledge ( akin to modern meta-systems ) -- the characters in his very first story used a system called ' Nexialism ' to analyze the alien's behaviour, and he became interested in the General Semantics of Alfred Korzybski.

In 1948 Turing joined Max Newman's Computing Laboratory at Manchester University, where he assisted in the development of the Manchester computers and became interested in mathematical biology.

He became interested in Kemmerich's boots and inherits them when Kemmerich dies early in the novel.

Around 1924 Whorf first became interested in linguistics.

The ambitious Holly became increasingly interested in the New York music / recording / publishing scene, while his band mates wanted to go back home to Lubbock.

Beatrix Potter Heelis became keenly interested in the breeding and raising of Herdwick sheep, the indigenous fell sheep, soon after acquiring Hill Top Farm.

It was an isolated performance, but at nine years old Chaplin became interested in the theatre.

The trip had been a stimulating experience for Chaplin, including meetings with several prominent thinkers, and he became increasingly interested in world affairs.

After gold was discovered and became a precious metal, many people were interested to find a method that could convert other substances into gold.

Throughout ITV's history and until Channel 4 finally became a reality, a perennial dialogue existed between the GPO, the government, the ITV companies and other interested parties, concerning the form such an expansion of commercial broadcasting would take.

During his early journalism career, Marker became increasingly interested in filmmaking and experimented with photography in the early 1950s.

Elsie left open the possibility that she believed she had photographed her thoughts, and the media once again became interested in the story.

The media subsequently once again became interested in Frances and Elsie's photographs.

He later took up the mandolin, became interested in country music, and played guitar with Arlo Guthrie.

However, Commodore UK lost its financial backing after several larger companies, including Gateway Computers and Dell Inc., became interested, primarily for Commodore's 47 patents relating to the Amiga.

As a young man, Hopper became interested in acting and eventually became a student of the Actors ' Studio.

As a teenager, McLean became interested in folk music, particularly the Weavers ' 1955 recording At Carnegie Hall.

He became seriously interested in learning how to fly in 1959.

At the turn of the 20th century, moral theories became more complex and are no longer concerned solely with rightness and wrongness, but are interested in many different kinds of moral status.

Here, Prokofieff became a workman in the vineyards of Socialism -- producing music for the masses.

Apollo became the god of shining youth, the protector of music, spiritual-life, moderation and perceptible order.

During its preparation he became a friend of Cosima Wagner ( then in Strasbourg ), with whom he had many theological and musical conversations, exploring his view of Bach's descriptive music, and playing the major Chorale Preludes for her at the Temple Neuf.

Following the appropriation of the hymn in secular music, " Amazing Grace " became such an icon in American culture that it has been used for a variety of secular purposes and marketing campaigns, placing it in danger of becoming a cliché.

As a result of this and the Amiga's audio and video capabilities the Amiga became a popular system for editing and producing both music and video.

The African musical focus on rhythmic singing and dancing was brought to the New World, where it became part of a distinct folk culture that helped Africans " retain continuity with their past through music ".

The Thirteen Colonies of the original United States were all former English possessions, and Anglo culture became a major foundation for American folk and popular music.

In that year he became Kappellmeister of the Imperial Chapel upon the death of Giuseppe Bonno ; as Kappellmeister he conducted the music and musical school connected with the chapel until shortly before his death, being official retired from the post in 1824.

Berg had little formal music education before he became a student of Arnold Schoenberg in October 1904.

The track " Baby Baby " ( written for Grant's newborn daughter, Millie, whose " six-week-old face was my inspiration ,") became a pop hit ( hitting No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 ), and Grant was established as a name in the mainstream music world.

In fact, slaves influenced early development of the music that became country and bluegrass, through the introduction of the banjo and the innovation of musical techniques for both the banjo and fiddle.

Banjos were introduced in Britain by Sweeney's group, the American Virginia Minstrels, in the 1840s, and became very popular in music halls.

In his search for new forms of tonality, Bartók turned to Hungarian folk music, as well as to other folk music of the Carpathian Basin and even of Algeria and Turkey ; in so doing he became influential in that stream of modernism which exploited indigenous music and techniques ( Botstein, § 6 ).

In the 1880s, Vasily Vasilievich Andreyev, who was then a professional violinist in the music salons of St Petersburg, developed what became the standardized balalaika, with the assistance of violin maker V. Ivanov.

Wills recalled the early days of what became known as Western swing music in a 1949 interview.

With its jazz sophistication, pop music and blues influence, plus improvised scats and wisecrack commentary by Wills, the band became the first superstars of the genre.

The Chaplins became estranged in around 1891 ; a year later, Hannah gave birth to a third son — George Wheeler Dryden — fathered by music hall entertainer Leo Dryden.

This meant that the playing of chords, even if they interrupted the melodic smoothness of a single part, became a much more prevalent feature of music.

As the 18th century progressed, the nobility became the primary patrons of instrumental music, and there was a rise in the public taste for comic opera.

Early piano music was light in texture, often with Alberti bass accompaniment, but it later became richer, more sonorous and more powerful.

In the intervening years, the social world of music had seen dramatic changes: international publication and touring had grown explosively, concert societies were beginning to be formed, notation had been made more specific, more descriptive, and schematics for works had been simplified ( yet became more varied in their exact working out ).

By then, early dance camps, retreats, and weekends had emerged, such as Pinewoods Camp, in Plymouth, Massachusetts, which became primarily a music and dance camp in 1933, and NEFFA, the New England Folk Festival, also in Massachusetts, which began in 1944.