Necessary Evil (Deborah Harry album)

Necessary Evil
Studio album by Deborah Harry
Released	September 17, 2007
Recorded	2007
Genre	Pop rock rock
Length	48:29
Label	Eleven Seven
Producer	Barb Morrison Charles Nieland Chris Stein Bill Ware
Deborah Harry chronology
Most of All: The Best of Deborah Harry (1999) Necessary Evil (2007)

Professional ratings

Aggregate scores
Source	Rating
Metacritic	50/100[1]
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[2]
Digital Spy	[3]
Robert Christgau	[4]
Rolling Stone

Necessary Evil, is the fifth solo album by the American singer Deborah Harry. Released in September 2007, it was her first solo album in fourteen years and the first since reformation of Blondie at the end of the '90s.

In several interviews, Harry said the album was recorded slowly. At first, the project was just a handful of songs from over a few years that she had never intended to develop into a full album. Then, before she knew it, she was working with Barb Morrison and Charles Nieland of production team Super Buddha and found herself on the Eleven Seven Music label.^{[citation needed]}

The album was preceded by the single "Two Times Blue", released on the iTunes Store on June 6, 2007.

Harry promoted the album on Cyndi Lauper's True Colors Tour 2007, performing a number of songs from the album. Upon its release in the UK, it debuted at No. 86. In the US, it debuted at No. 37 on the Independent Chart.

On January 18, 2008, an official music video for "If I Had You" was released. The video starred, then unknown, pop star Austin Riva.^[5]

• Deborah Harry – vocals, guitar (track 8), percussion (track 10)

With

• Tracks 1–14
  • Super Buddha – all instruments, except as noted
  • Mark Marone – drums (tracks 2–4, 14)
  • Sean Travis Dempsey – keyboards and drum programming (track 9)
  • Miss Guy – additional vocals (track 14)
• Tracks 15–16
  • Chris Stein – all instruments
• Track 17
  • Roy Nathanson – saxophone
  • Bill Ware – all other instruments