Fingers.
You might be right. I did a little sleuthing, and found this quote by Harry:
I also found a quote from Stein’s himself (from a Facebook page dedicated to that shirt):
*“this is great guys… the story of the VULTURE T SHIRT is not too exciting… i have two old pals from my Brooklyn days Howie and Joey, i still see Joey frequently… any way they found it in an old sporting good store in Brooklyn someplace… i always loved it and finally got them to give it to me… this must have been in 69-70 thereabouts… we always thought it might have been from a softball team but i dont think anyone will ever find out its real origins…
both Debbie and i used to wear it a lot… i added a skull and bones iron on sometime in the early seventies… thats about it… i always mean to get some shots of the original which is pretty shredded but in one basic piece… when i get time i’ll do it and also upload some ancient shots of me wearing it in 69… sometimes i envision a video with Debbie leading an army of Vulture girls, of course the uniform is the shirt”
As famous as Blondie made that design, I’m surprised the graphic artist never stepped forward to claim his 15 minutes!
Must not have been a punk fan…
That’s a .44 Magnum, the most powerful handgun in the world and will blow your head clea…
I’m sorry, wrong Harry.
Wrong punk, too.
< chortle >
Indeed. Here she wears a black plastic trash bag (and the Vulture t-shirt too) and it is perfectly OK with me.
Absolutely, and I just noticed Clem Burke has top on that pays homage to Keith Moon. That’s a solid fashion choice as well.
And I thought it was a hommage to The Jam! Probably that RAF inspired design is worn often.
I suppose it could be, The Jam certainly used it in homage to “The Who” as well, They were a huge inspiration to both The Jam and Clem Burke.
It’s a symbol adopted by Mods in Britain in the mid-Sixties. That’s where Moon and mod-revival groups of the '80s picked it up. Clem is a bit of an anglophile and models his fashion on the Mods.
Note the people turning and staring at Burke and Harry as they stroll down the street. Chris Stein, who took the photo, said it probably wasn’t the whistle Deborah is tooting. He said they got this sort of attention all the time, because they just looked like New Wave oddballs as they wandered the streets of early 1970’s New York 
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Fairly obvious to see that this photo session directly inspired Harley Quinn’s look in Suicide Squad.
Great photo, thanks for posting.
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I tend to agree with you there.
The homage doesn’t stop there.
I have a tangential question about this video. At about 2:02, during the close-up of the keyboardist’s hands, he does a sort of “1-2-3-4” thing with his fingers in between the riffs.
Was this just a bit of show for the camera, or is that a thing a keyboardist might actually do to help keep time?
Sadly I have little experience as a professional keyboard player…I have no idea.
Possibly he was aware that the camera was on him, maybe the tech of time meant the cameraman was very close in and he was just giving him a little bit of a show.
You’d hope a pro was able to keep time without counting it out on their fingers.
I play keyboards (and other instruments) and I will occasionally do stuff just to have something to do in situations like that. Counting on your fingers like that isn’t really necessary, but it does give you something to do. I’ve never seen anyone actually count on their fingers like that, but there’s no reason you couldn’t do it.
That said, I’m pretty sure this was all for the camera. The entire video is a lip sync sort of thing. None of the instruments are even plugged into anything and Debbie isn’t anywhere near a microphone. The keyboardist taking his right hand off of the keyboard also doesn’t match the studio version of the song (which is what the audio is playing). You can hear that the keyboardist holds down the entire chord, both right hand and left hand, for that section where he lifts his right hand and counts in the video.
There is an interesting switch-up of time signatures in the section right before that. While most of the song is a simple 4/4 time signature, they change to alternating 4/4 and 3/4 (or an overall 7 count if you prefer) and switch back to straight 4/4 when the keyboardist lifts his right hand and gives a 4 count on his fingers. So he might have been having some fun emphasizing the time signature switch-up.
The bass player and the guitarist on the right seem to be accurately playing along with the studio music (through their unplugged and silent instruments 
). I can’t hear anything in the audio that corresponds to what the guitar player on the left is doing though.
What he said. Besides, counting time on your fingers is really more of a drummer thing. runs serpentine from the thread
Actually, I’m just glad the keyboard got a closeup at all.
He (Jimmy Destri) also does it about :20 in the video for Dreaming
yes, top of the Pops was notorious for being totally lip-synced 90 percent of the time to the point that in the 90s bands were goofing around during the songs … the most famous of those being Nirvana…