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Plastic Love: A Day with Blondie

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 world that Dole Queue Rock was the only Music for Today are now coughing with a sideward glance and proclaiming Power Pop is The Sound of '78, conveniently forgetting that they were among the miserable bunch slagging off the prime purveyors of Power Pop, Blondie, on their debut UK tour last Spring.

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