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Blondie: One Way or Another

Barney Hoskyns, 'Blondie: Panic of Girls' (Future Publishing), Summer 2011

MOST OF THE BOYS were there to watch Television. It was Saturday night, 28 May 1977, and the Hammersmith Odeon was packed with chaps who – on the back of a gushing lead review by NME's Nick Kent – had recently acquired that band's debut album Marquee Moon.

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