In a 1998 interview on 'Later with Jools Holland' Chris Stein & Debbie Harry explained that Sunday Girl was about Debbie's Cat called 'Sunday Man' and about the cat running away. You can find it on Youtube :)
@c4rous3l A BBC documentary "Blondie in New York" suggested the situation might be more complex than that. Yes, there was a cat called "Sunday Man", but song-references can be multi-layered. There is nothing to say that a person's cat can't be used as an "alter-ego" or reference for that person, or someone completely different, if the songwriter wants to. A one-to-one correspondence with biographical details should also not be expected! For me, the song evokes the risks of safety as well as the dangers of adventure in personal relationships; for cats or anyone else!...
@c4rous3l A BBC documentary "Blondie in New York" suggested the situation might be more complex than that. Yes, there was a cat called "Sunday Man", but song-references can be multi-layered. There is nothing to say that a person's cat can't be used as an "alter-ego" or reference for that person, or someone completely different, if the songwriter wants to. A one-to-one correspondence with biographical details should also not be expected! For me, the song evokes the risks of safety as well as the dangers of adventure in personal relationships; for cats or anyone else!
In a 1998 interview on 'Later with Jools Holland' Chris Stein & Debbie Harry explained that Sunday Girl was about Debbie's Cat called 'Sunday Man' and about the cat running away. You can find it on Youtube :)
@c4rous3l A BBC documentary "Blondie in New York" suggested the situation might be more complex than that. Yes, there was a cat called "Sunday Man", but song-references can be multi-layered. There is nothing to say that a person's cat can't be used as an "alter-ego" or reference for that person, or someone completely different, if the songwriter wants to. A one-to-one correspondence with biographical details should also not be expected! For me, the song evokes the risks of safety as well as the dangers of adventure in personal relationships; for cats or anyone else!...
@c4rous3l A BBC documentary "Blondie in New York" suggested the situation might be more complex than that. Yes, there was a cat called "Sunday Man", but song-references can be multi-layered. There is nothing to say that a person's cat can't be used as an "alter-ego" or reference for that person, or someone completely different, if the songwriter wants to. A one-to-one correspondence with biographical details should also not be expected! For me, the song evokes the risks of safety as well as the dangers of adventure in personal relationships; for cats or anyone else!