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Blondie: All Aboard For Funtime!
Profile and Interview by Kris Needs, ZigZag, August 1977
FUN! IT'S A word which keeps coming back when you try and describe Blondie – live or on record. ...
Debbie Harry: A Chat with the Punk Pop Queen!
Interview by Barney Hoskyns, Daily Express, 2000
WHAT A difference a year makes. The last time I spoke with Debbie Harry she was gearing up for the release of the first Blondie ...
Audio interviews
Interview by John Tobler, Rock's Backpages audio, 1 May 1977
Touring the UK with Television, Debbie talks about her first attempts at music: Wind in the Willows, the Stilettos and Blondie mk. 1; her and Chris talk about the New York bands — Television, Patti Smith; their sixties influences and meeting Ellie Greenwich; Frankie Valli and Phil Spector; the band's name and image, and having girl fans too!
File format: mp3; file size: 26.2mb, interview length: 27' 16" sound quality: *****
Interview by Ian Ravendale, Rock's Backpages audio, 12 September 1978
Ms. Harry is quizzed about the band's success in the UK relative to the US; are they more pop than "new wave"?; the changes introduced by Mike Chapman on Parallel Lines; and on her public persona and the public's response to her.
File format: mp3; file size: 2.9mb, interview length: 7' 07" sound quality: ****
Interview by Chris Roberts, Rock's Backpages audio, 7 July 2003
Elle ne regrette rien: La Harry on Blondie then and now, NYC then and now, on art and movies, on Chris Stein, and on the latest Blondie album The Curse of Blondie
File format: mp3; file size: 67.8meg, interview length: 1h 10' 40" sound quality: **
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A Conservative Impulse in the New Rock Underground
Report by James Wolcott, The Village Voice, 18 August 1975
"No longer is the rock impulse revolutionary — i.e., the transformation of oneself and society — but conservative: to carry on the rock tradition." ...
Report by Charles Shaar Murray, New Musical Express, 8 November 1975
"BEAT ON the brat, beat on the brat, beat on the brat with a baseball bat..." ...
Report by Ira Robbins, Trouser Press, October 1976
THE OBVIOUS ASSUMPTION when writers (and people) approach the subject of Blondie (granted, up to now not many have, but with a single and an ...
Profile and Interview by Roy Carr, New Musical Express, 13 November 1976
THE SENSUOUS POUT FROM CBGB ...
Blondie: Blondie (Private Stock PS2023, Import)**
Review by Giovanni Dadomo, Sounds, 22 January 1977
This gentleman doesn't prefer Blondie ...
Blondie: Blondie (Private Stock PS 2023)
Review by Ira Robbins, Trouser Press, February 1977
ONE OF THE great maxims of life is that one should ask for more than one expects and expect more than one deserves. I have ...
Blondie: Blondie (Private Stock)
Review by Greg Shaw, Phonograph Record, February 1977
THE FIRST TIME I saw Blondie she was incredible. ...
The Babys (Chrysalis CHR 1129); Blondie (Private Stock PS 2023)
Review by Toby Goldstein, Crawdaddy!, March 1977
PUNK HARLOW WITH THE BABYS ...
Blondie: Blondie (Private Stock)
Review by Robot A. Hull, Creem, April 1977
THIS BLONDIE SURE AIN’T NO BUMSTEAD! MORE MUSTARD THAN ANY DAGWOOD SANDWICH! Alright, all y’all lokul yokuls out there in hickland splittin’ yer sides at ...
Report by Kris Needs, ZigZag, April 1977
Well, we got through to the second issue despite opposition from the hippies. Anyway, here we are...and it's about time we went Over The Top ...
Blondie: At Last, The Sound Of 1970!
Profile and Interview by Richard Cromelin, Sounds, 16 April 1977
WHAT BETTER way to introduce Blondie's bombshell Deborah Harry as she takes the stage at the Whisky in Hollywood than to use one of the ...
Blondie: Max's Kansas City and The Palladium, NYC
Live Review by Miles, New Musical Express, 16 April 1977
MAX'S KANSAS CITY has become a tourist rip-off joint – $5 admission and no way to see anything unless you booked a table. ...
Interview by Richard Cromelin, Rolling Stone, 21 April 1977
LOS ANGELES — In black minidress and thigh-high boots, Blondie's bombshell, Deborah Harry, evokes the very essence of Nancy Sinatra. When she breaks into the ...
Blondie: High School Never Ends
Interview by Toby Goldstein, Creem, May 1977
ABOUT A year ago my husband returned from CBGB's, where he'd had one of those "nights out with the boys" of song and legend. The ...
Blondie's Debbie Harry & Chris Stein (1977) [transcript]
Transcript of audio interview by John Tobler, Rock's Backpages transcripts, 1 May 1977
This is a transcript of John's audio interview with Blondie's Debbie and Chris. Listen to the audio of this interview. ...
Television/Blondie: Apollo, Glasgow
Live Review by Tim Lott, Sounds, 28 May 1977
Television revelation ...
Television, Blondie: Hammersmith Odeon, London
Live Review by Barry Cain, Record Mirror, 4 June 1977
AH, THE Watusi. ...
Television/Blondie: Hammersmith Odeon, London
Live Review by Pete Makowski, Sounds, 4 June 1977
Television: I preferred the other channel ...
Interview by Ira Robbins, Trouser Press, November 1977
They like to think of themselves as "pop punks." In America most of the attention paid Blondie is focused on namesake Debbie Harry, whose blonde ...
New York Lights Up With Soggy Matches!
Overview by Robert Duncan, Creem, November 1977
A Consumer Guide To Rock's Last Drag by Robert Drizzle Duncan ...
Blondie: Rainbow Theatre, London
Live Review by Jane Suck, Sounds, 26 November 1977
Would you let this girl play with your maraccas? (Sexist headline of the week) ...
Peroxide Pop-Rock: Blondie: Plastic Letters (Chrysalis) *****
Review by Jane Suck, Sounds, 28 January 1978
I'VE WAITED months for this album and now I 've got it (white label and unfinished sleeve, vinyl junkies!) ...
Plastic Love: A Day with Blondie
Report by Kris Needs, ZigZag, February 1978
SO SUDDENLY it's in to have fun. The very same self-styled prophets who fell over their spanking new bondage strides last year to tell the ...
At last, a genuine artistic (well, it ain't sexist) pic of Debbie Harry in Sounds &...
Interview by Jane Suck, Sounds, 4 February 1978
I'M ALLOWED to say that a bomb dropped on my head whilst walking round the corner from Covent Garden Tube station to meet the band, ...
New Albums: Best at the Theft — Suicide Outclasses Blondie
Review by Howard Wuelfing, Unicorn Times, March 1978
AMONG OUTSIDERS, the paramount issues of the punk/new wave movement revolve around stuff like clothing styles, politics, and the effect of massive success on a ...
Interview by Harry Doherty, Melody Maker, 4 March 1978
Harry Doherty reports from West Berlin ...
Blondie, Advertising: St. George's Hall, Blackburn
Live Review by Peter Silverton, Sounds, 4 March 1978
SWEET LITTLE Debbie Harry sure has come on in the world. Only 32 and already she's got a single in the charts and the wish ...
Blondie, Advertising, the Boyfriends: The Roundhouse, London
Live Review by Harry Doherty, Melody Maker, 11 March 1978
PROOF — IF proof were now needed — of Blondie's vast potential was provided in full during Sunday night's gig at the Roundhouse, London's answer ...
Review by Ira Robbins, Trouser Press, April 1978
It would be a laughable understatement to say that lots has happened to Blondie (the group) since their previous album appeared slightly over 12 months ...
Blondie, Mike Pinera: Starwood, Los Angeles CA
Live Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 27 April 1978
A Disciplined Blondie at the Starwood ...
Blondie: Plastic Letters (Chrysalis)
Review by Wesley Strick, Circus, 11 May 1978
ABOVE ALL, Blondie is supposed to be about Fun — the group even printed a defensive Fun Manifesto on the liner of its debut Private ...
Blondie: Starwood, Los Angeles CA
Live Review by Mark Cooper, Record Mirror, 13 May 1978
They still don't know who Blondie is in LA ...
Blondie: Call, but not before noon
Interview by Radio Pete, Rocky Mountain Musical Express, July 1978
ALL NEW wave bands have a hook — a gimmick — besides the music. At least that's the perception of Chris Stein, lead guitarist for ...
Blondie: Parallel Lines (Chrysalis)
Review by Alan Betrock, New York Rocker, September 1978
BLONDIE IS NOT a fun group and the age of innocence is over. True or False? I'm reviewing Side Two first because no side was ...
Report and Interview by Kris Needs, ZigZag, September 1978
DEBBIE HARRY, teeth bared and eyes blazing, smashes her booted foot into my aching side. Ribs give way like skittles. Through glazed eyes I can ...
Interview by Harold Bronson, New York Rocker, September 1978
PRODUCER MIKE Chapman, once removed from his baronial digs in the hillier regions of Beverly Hills and ensconced in the recording studio, sheds his bemused ...
Interview by Paul Morley, New Musical Express, 2 September 1978
DEBBIE HARRY: a few more brisk calculations in the dry equation, and she will be a star. A household name. An object. An illusion. Well ...
Review by Sandy Robertson, Sounds, 9 September 1978
I JUST decided there is no such thing as Art Rock; all there is is different levels of commerciality. ...
Blondie: Parallel Lines (Chrysalis)
Review by Nick Kent, New Musical Express, 9 September 1978
WOOPS — BLONDIE SHOWS ROOTS ...
Blondie: Parallel Lines (Chrysalis)
Review by Harry Doherty, Melody Maker, 9 September 1978
BLONDIE'S third album seems designed to cater for two distinct requirements: a) to satisfy the near-hysterical cries for the pure pop of the band's debut ...
Interview by Harry Doherty, Melody Maker, 9 September 1978
CLEM BURKE offers a rather intriguing analogy about his band: Blondie are now playing the roles patented earlier this decade by Gary Glitter, T. Rex ...
Blondie's Debbie Harry (1978) [transcript]
Transcript of audio interview by Ian Ravendale, Rock's Backpages transcripts, 12 September 1978
This is a transcript of Ian's interview with Debbie. Listen to the audio of this interview. ...
Blondie: Hammersmith Odeon, London
Live Review by Sandy Robertson, Sounds, 16 September 1978
Y'WANNA HEAR a plangent melody? Forget it, Blondie are a rock 'n' roll band who have (at last) gotten to the point where they can ...
Review by Howard Wuelfing, Unicorn Times, October 1978
Girl Group Sound Filters Back into Rock Scene ...
Report and Interview by Kris Needs, ZigZag, October 1978
BLONDIEEEE!!!! IT'S just yards between the stage door and the coach but feels much more as the waiting hordes grab, shout and thrust bits of ...
Report and Interview by Barry Cain, Record Mirror, 18 November 1978
BARRY CAIN threads his way through the decaying labyrinth known as New York, finds the other faces behind Debbie Harry, unearths two of the "fabulous" ...
Blondie, Greg Khin: Civic Auditorium, Santa Monica CA
Live Review by Richard Cromelin, Los Angeles Times, 23 November 1978
"BLONDIE IS a group!" is the band's battle cry, raised against the public's tendency to focus strictly on vocalist/sex symbol Deborah Harry and to overlook ...
Interview by Fred Schruers, Rolling Stone, 14 December 1978
Blondie's punk Garbo ...
Blondie, Moon Martin: My Father's Place, New York NY
Live Review by Andy Schwartz, New York Rocker, January 1979
STANDING MAYBE 5'7" high, blond hair surrounding a Paul Kantner-shaped face framed by a pair of oversized red-plastic-framed glasses, John "Moon" Martin is about the ...
Blondie: Parallel Lines (Chrysalis)
Review by Stephen Demorest, Rock Scene, February 1979
ABOUT HALFWAY through this fine album, I began to feel disappointed. Blondie is so widely recommended I'd hoped to at last muster some real enthusiasm ...
Chinn & Chapman: Ballroom Blitz & Hearts of Glass
Interview by Harry Doherty, Melody Maker, March 1979
Mike Chapman began with Mud and Sweet, disappeared when glitter-rock went cold, and came back to make the new wave palatable for America with the ...
Interview by Harry Doherty, Melody Maker, 3 March 1979
While 'Heart Of Glass' seems about to repeat its British success in America, via the disco connection, Debbie Harry and Chris Stein stay home in ...
Profile and Interview by Mark Cooper, Record Mirror, 28 April 1979
EVER HEARD the one about New Yorkers in Los Angeles? Well there's more than one, as Woody Allen knows, and Blondie have a few on ...
Interview by Nick Tosches, Creem, June 1979
DEBORAH HARRY, formerly of Hawthorne, New Jersey, sits there. Deborah Harry, who arrived at the Seventies from the Sixties in a Camaro, eats tuna salad ...
Blondie: They're A Group! Not A Girl!
Comment by Howie Klein, Relix, June 1979
SEE THE PICTURE of the blonde? That's Debbie Harry. That's NOT Blondie. Blondie's Clem Burke (drums), Jimmy Destri (keyboards), Debbie Harry (vocals), Nigel Harrison (bass), ...
Deborah Harry: Platinum Blondie
Interview by Glenn O'Brien, Interview, June 1979
DEBORAH HARRY is the singer in a band called BLONDIE. In recent weeks one of their songs, 'HEART OF GLASS' has been the number one ...
Blondie's Disco Detour: Big Seller or Big Sellout?
Interview by 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, ...
Blondie: Have you seen your lover, baby?
Interview by Ronnie Gurr, Record Mirror, 30 June 1979
RONNIE GURR, standing in the shadows with Chris Stein ...
Crits fiddle while public burns...
Report by Richard Grabel, New Musical Express, 30 June 1979
Fripp, Eno and others debate the future of a species ...
Blondie: Pinecrest Theater, Shelton, Connecticut
Live Review by Harry Doherty, Melody Maker, 7 July 1979
BLONDIE'S US tour should provide some interesting results when it ends in eight weeks' time. It could, for instance, determine just how willing American audiences ...
Report by Roy Trakin, New York Rocker, August 1979
JUST A SCANT eight months ago, Blondie the group was seemingly nowhere. Their third album (and second for Chrysalis), Parallel Lines, was languishing in the ...
Long Overdue Recognition For Producer Mike Chapman
Profile by Joel Selvin, San Francisco Chronicle, 5 August 1979
WITH HIS productions of the multi-platinum Blondie LP, Parallel Lines, and Get the Knack, which earned a gold album faster than any other debut album ...
Blondie: Eat To The Beat (Chrysalis)
Review by Paul Rambali, New Musical Express, 22 September 1979
BLONDES have more fun. They also sometimes sell more records. This puts our subject in a rather invidious position. ...
Blondie: Eat To The Beat (Chrysalis)
Review by J.D. Considine, New York Rocker, December 1979
AMERICA, AS you might expect of any pop-oriented, media-saturated culture, has a disturbing tendency to take its sexual images literally. Lauren Hutton and Cheryl Tiegs ...
Blondie: Your Instrument Is Your Body
Interview by Davitt Sigerson, Melody Maker, 22 December 1979
PEOPLE REMEMBER the face as they see it in photographs, that's axiomatic. And her face possesses that photographic stillness even in life – not as ...
Mike Chapman and Nicky Chinn: Ballroom Blitz & Hearts of Glass
Interview by Harry Doherty, Melody Maker, 29 December 1979
Mike Chapman began with Mud and Sweet, disappeared when glitter-rock went cold, and came back to make the new wave palatable for America with the ...
Debbie Harry: Rhapsody in Blonde
Report and Interview by Philip Norman, The Sunday Times, 1980
IN A TALL, draughty brownstone house, off New York's Second Avenue, preparations are afoot to videotape a sequence for Blondie's new single record, 'Rapture'. The ...
Everyone's a rock critic: The lost Lester Bangs interview
Interview by uncredited writer, unpublished, 1980
FOLLOWING the release of Blondie, Lester Bangs was interviewed for a radio program called News Blimp. A copy of the tape was sent to me ...
Blondie: Eat To The Beat (Chrysalis)
Review by Richard Riegel, Creem, January 1980
TOUCHED BY YOUR PRESENTS, DEARS ...
Report and Interview by Garry Bushell, Sounds, 12 January 1980
FROM WHERE I'm sitting Chris Stein looks like a chubbier version of Paul Foot, his tousled hair spilling over the thick black frames of his ...
Blondie: Hammersmith Odeon, London
Live Review by Phil Sutcliffe, Sounds, 19 January 1980
JUST LOOKING ...
Blondie: Hammersmith Odeon, London
Live Review by Rosalind Russell, Record Mirror, 19 January 1980
YOU'LL HAVE realised by now, if you're a regular reader of RM, that the reporters rarely agree on anything. And I certainly don't agree with ...
Blondie/Meatloaf: Meat To The Beat
Report and Interview by Dave DiMartino, Creem, February 1980
AUSTIN, TX – Talk about incongruity. Here we are speeding down a Texas highway, sun blazing overhead. We're in a van, naturally – the only ...
The Art Of Class: Behind The Blondie Invasion!
Interview by Kris Needs, ZigZag, February 1980
THREE O'CLOCK on a lazy Sunday afternoon. Debbie Harry and Chris Stein have just got up and the hotel breakfast is being wheeled in. ...
Interview by Rosalind Russell, Record Mirror, 2 February 1980
Now we can get back to those sexist headlines. Debbie Harry knows you need that to front a band, but don't forget the music and ...
Dinner With Blondie... and William Burroughs
Interview by Victor Bockris, New Music News, 24 May 1980
2010 NOTE: I taped this dinner party for William Burroughs, Debbie Harry and Chris Stein for my book With William Burroughs: A Report from the ...
Interview by Rosalind Russell, Record Mirror, 16 August 1980
BLONDIE will head for the hills if there's a nuclear attack. ROSALIND RUSSELL will whitewash the windows and wrap her head in a towel. What ...
Blondie by Lester Bangs (Fireside/Simon and Schuster)
Book Review by Robot A. Hull, Creem, October 1980
Lester Bangs One Out ...
Review by Cynthia Rose, New Musical Express, 22 November 1980
IT WAS late in the '30s when New York cemented its claim as America's most energetic and insistent symbol of urban eroticism and urbane careerism. ...
Review by Ira Robbins, Trouser Press, February 1981
THE GENERAL PUBLIC is no doubt familiar with the Blondie story: from Bowery pop-punks to mid-American Euroschmaltzers and product endorsers. What was once a band ...
Report and Interview by Roy Trakin, Hit Parader, June 1981
ACCORDING TO THE BIBLE, 'Rapture' will occur when Jesus Christ returns to retrieve a third of the Earth's population for the Kingdom of Heaven, leaving ...
Interview by Andy Schwartz, New York Rocker, June 1981
...AND SO IT came to pass, in the first months of 1981, that the white rock and roll band called Blondie appeared in the Top ...
Debbie Harry: First Lady of Chic
Interview by Adam Sweeting, Melody Maker, 27 June 1981
Amateur gumshoe Adam Sweeting grills DEBBIE HARRY in New York ...
Interview by Betty Page, Sounds, 15 August 1981
Ms Harry's mentor talks to BETTY PAGE ...
Blondie: Do Greenheads Have More Fun?
Interview by Chris Salewicz, Creem, December 1981
DEBBIE & CHRIS GO KOO KOO CHIC! ...
Debbie Harry Goes Beyond The Valley Of The Dolls
Report and Interview by Roy Trakin, Hit Parader, December 1981
WHEN WE LAST left Blondie's Chris Stein and Deborah Harry back in December, Autoamerican had just been released. Owlishly-wise Chris was predicting it would get ...
Book Excerpt by John Tobler, Stuart Grundy, 'The Record Producers', 1982
THE YEARS BETWEEN 1971 and 1975 were tucked between psychedelia on the one hand and punk rock on the other, and while they featured country ...
The Bowery Beat: CBGBs and All That
Retrospective by Tom Hibbert, The History of Rock, 1982
FROM 1970 ONWARDS, the US rock mainstream grew increasingly staid, predictable and unimaginative. On the surface, the American scene appeared to offer nothing but sleepy ...
Blondie: The Hunter (Chrysalis)**½
Review by Betty Page, Sounds, 29 May 1982
The lumber of the beast ...
Blondie: Making Tracks And The Art Of Parties
Report by Kris Needs, ZigZag, July 1982
THE B2 ART GALLERY is oddly situated in derelict Thameside structures off Wapping's hysterically termed High Street. But no rundown jungle on the other side ...
Blondie: Hunters In An Urban Jungle
Interview by Toby Goldstein, Creem, August 1982
CHRIS STEIN, Deborah Harry and I are sitting in an office of Blank Tapes Studio, catching up on the recent past and future prospects of ...
Blondie: Striving To Be Different
Interview by Jim Sullivan, The Boston Globe, 12 August 1982
MAINSTREAM HITS HAVE NOT ALTERED BANDS GOALS, SAYS CHRIS STEIN ...
Interview by Jim Green, Trouser Press, September 1982
BLONDIE IS the new wave success story, from Bowery boys-and girl-to glamorous chart-toppers. Yet the band has never felt it had to toe any musical ...
Animal House: Chris Stein, Blondie, and Animal Records
Interview by Cynthia Rose, New Musical Express, 13 November 1982
MUSICIAN/PHOTOGRAPHER Chris Stein has spent the last four years becoming what some Americans consider "a compulsive over-achiever", and others call 'an enthusiast'. ...
Interview by Glenn O'Brien, Spin, January 1986
Debbie Harry and Chris Stein talk about Blondie, wrestling, disease, record rating, show biz, fear, and fantasy. ...
Meet The Family: Ramones, Blondie, Talking Heads
Report and Interview by Mat Snow, Q, October 1990
There's Debbie, and there's Tina and, let's see, there's little Joey, hasn't he grown? Then there's and Chris and, uh, Chris... From the shadowy depths ...
Debbie Harry: Three Times A Lady
Interview by Tom Hibbert, Q, August 1993
DATELINE: MAY 28, 1977. There she stood, growling, upon the stage of the Hammersmith Odeon with her skinny-tied boys around her. ...
Retrospective by Susan Compo, MOJO, October 1994
AS NORMAN MAILER ONCE SAID, "All blondes are natural blondes." Look it up in any book of pop quotes and you'll probably find a picture ...
Review by Susan Compo, MOJO, October 1994
AS NORMAN MAILER ONCE SAID, "ALL blondes are natural blondes." Look it up in any book of pop quotes and you'll probably find a picture ...
The HT Interview: Debbie Harry
Interview by Victor Bockris, High Times, October 1996
(RBP Editor's note — the original article in High Times was printed missing a section. Victor Bockris provided us with material which, in part, filled ...
Profile by Phil Sutcliffe, Heat, 1999
Picture this: Debbie Harry, at 25, all cheek bones, blonde hair and cool – and spending her days with a pinnie and a Hoover cleaning ...
Retrospective and Interview by Barney Hoskyns, MOJO, February 1999
"And you don’t stop/Do the punk rock..." ...
Blondie: London Sound Republic
Live Review by Terry Staunton, Uncut, March 1999
MADONNA turned 40 last year and marked the occasion with the most critically-acclaimed album of her career. The biggest selling single in the UK was ...
It was 40 Years Ago Today: The Story Of Blondie's Parallel Lines
Retrospective by Steve Pafford, 'The MOJO Collection' (Canongate), 2000
DESPITE BEING the last act out of the original New York punk scene to be offered a record deal, the blond ambition of ex-Playboy Bunny ...
Review by Ian MacDonald, Uncut, November 2001
New York new wave pop pasticheurs repackaged ...
Interview by Edward Helmore, MOJO, November 2002
WHEN YOU FIRST came to New York in the late '60s you worked as a waitress at Max's Kansas City. An eye opener? ...
Debbie Harry: In A Lonely Place
Interview by Nick Hasted, The Independent, 19 September 2003
IN THEIR POMP, Blondie were a one-band production line of beautiful, brash singles, each subtly hand-finished to find another angle on their signature, streamlined sound. ...
Interview by Chris Roberts, Uncut, November 2003
Twenty-five years after Deborah — nee Debbie — Harry became the Warholian pop art fantasy made flesh, Blondie, progenitors of New York cool, are back ...
Retrospective and Interview by Gavin Martin, Daily Mirror, 7 November 2003
IT IS NOW over 30 years since New York art student Chris Stein met former beautician and Bunny Girl Deborah Ann Harry and became the ...
Live Review by Dave Simpson, The Guardian, 15 November 2003
ONE OF THE PROBLEMS with seeing "classic" bands some 20 years on is the physical decline, particularly in the case of a band like Blondie. ...
album reissues: the true report
Review by Everett True, Plan B, December 2005
HERE'S YOUR STARTER for 10. ...
Interview by David Sinclair, The Independent, 13 July 2006
WHEN BLONDIE were admitted to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, Ohio, earlier this year, it seemed about time. After thirty million ...
Interview by Stephen Dalton, The Times, 28 April 2007
BEFORE Madonna, before Courtney Love and Shirley Manson, before Karen O and Beth Ditto, there was Debbie Harry. ...
Profile and Interview by Lucy O'Brien, MOJO, October 2007
DEBORAH HARRY'S road manager is a tall Californian called Machine. He has a moustache, a firm handshake, and is ineffably polite. "Deborah will be with ...
Retrospective by Kris Needs, MOJO, February 2008
SEPTEMBER 15, 1978, BIRMINGHAM. Blondie are on form tonight and they know it. Although the previous day's Manchester gig saw screaming adulation and post-gig mobbing, ...
Blondie: The Making Of 'Heart Of Glass'
Retrospective and Interview by Nick Hasted, Uncut, August 2008
A reggae song? By a "cult folk band"? Debbie Harry, Chris Stein and taskmaster/producer Mike Chapman relive the disco-punk boot camp that built a gleaming, ...
Review by Holly Gleason, Paste, 14 September 2011
WHEN NEW WAVE ERUPTED on the back-end of punk, there was Blondie, all crisp beats, silent screen star peroxide beauty and a sense of '50s ...
Retrospective by 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 ...
Picture this: The love affair between rockers and the lens
Book Review by James Medd, New Statesman, 16 October 2014
Jimmy Page: Jimmy Page (Genesis) Marianne Faithfull: Marianne Faithfull – A Life on Record (Rizzoli) Chris Stein: Negative – Me, Blondie and the Advent ...
Debbie Harry on punk, refusing to retire and sex at 69
Interview by Sheryl Garratt, Daily Telegraph, 1 March 2015
Forty years after Blondie found fame on the New York scene, Debbie Harry is still waving the flag for women in the music business – ...
Review by Graeme Thomson, Mail On Sunday, 30 April 2017
WHAT DO YOU do when you can no longer write the kind of songs that made you beloved in the first place? If you're Blondie, almost ...
In the Hot Seat with Larry LeBlanc: Toby Mamis, manager, Alive Enterprises
Interview by Larry LeBlanc, Celebrity Access, 30 August 2018
YOU ARE GOING to have to wait for a film to make much sense of Toby Mamis' fabulously winding career. ...
Book Review by Chris Charlesworth, Just Backdated, October 2019
IT IS A popular misconception that – once they have tasted chart success and seen their faces in magazines – music stars like Debbie Harry ...
Live Review by Chris Charlesworth, Just Backdated, 28 April 2022
TO BRIGHTON for a Blondie concert and the realisation that what I've missed the most during the Covid-induced famine of live gigs is the feeling ...
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