From Blondie With Love…
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 and Sparks. In '78 teenage adulation is back.
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