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Blondie's Disco Detour: Big Seller or Big Sellout?

Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 3 June 1979

"DEATH TO DISCO" T-shirts weren't an uncommon sight among the new wave audience that formed Blondie's first base of support. But, as it turns out, it's disco that's given life to Blondie.

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