Blondie
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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 ...
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AUDIO: Blondie's Debbie Harry (2003)
Interview by Chris Roberts, Rock's Backpages Audio, 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; in 2 parts, total file sizes: 64.7meg, total interview length: 1h 10' 38" sound quality: **
ARTICLES IN LIBRARY
Report by Charles Shaar Murray, NME, November 1975
"BEAT ON the brat, beat on the brat, beat on the brat with a baseball bat..." ...
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: 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 ...
Blondie: Max's Kansas City and The Palladium, NYC
Live Review by Miles, NME, 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. ...
Blondie: At Last, The Sound Of 1970!
Profile and Interview by Richard Cromelin, Sounds, 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 ...
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 ...
Blondie, Advertising: St. George's Hall, Blackburn
Live Review by Peter Silverton, Sounds, 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 ...
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: Starwood, Los Angeles CA
Live Review by Mark Cooper, Record Mirror, May 1978
They still don't know who Blondie is in LA ...
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 ...
Interview by Paul Morley, NME, 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 ...
Interview by Harry Doherty, Melody Maker, 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: Parallel Lines (Chrysalis)
Review by Harry Doherty, Melody Maker, 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 ...
Review by Sandy Robertson, Sounds, September 1978
I JUST decided there is no such thing as Art Rock; all there is is different levels of commerciality. ...
Blondie: Hammersmith Odeon, London
Live Review by Sandy Robertson, Sounds, 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 ...
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 ...
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, 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, 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 ...
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: 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), ...
Blondie: Pinecrest Theater, Shelton, Connecticut
Live Review by Harry Doherty, Melody Maker, 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 ...
Blondie: Eat To The Beat (Chrysalis)
Review by Paul Rambali, NME, September 1979
BLONDES have more fun. They also sometimes sell more records. This puts our subject in a rather invidious position. ...
Blondie: Your Instrument Is Your Body
Interview by Davitt Sigerson, Melody Maker, 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 ...
Debbie Harry: Rhapsody in Blonde
Report and Interview by Philip Norman, 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 ...
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, 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/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. ...
Dinner With Blondie... and William Burroughs
Interview by Victor Bockris, New Music News, 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 ...
Review by Cynthia Rose, NME, 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 ...
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 ...
The Bowery Beat: CBGBs and All That
Retrospective by Tom Hibbert, History of Rock, The, 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 ...
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 ...
Animal House: Chris Stein, Blondie, and Animal Records
Interview by Cynthia Rose, NME, 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'. ...
Blondie: The Hunter (Chrysalis)**½
Review by Betty Page, Sounds, 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 ...
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 ...
Interview by Glenn O'Brien, Spin, 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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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? ...
Interview by Chris Roberts, Uncut, August 2003
YOU'RE LOOKING as fabulous as ever, Ms Harry. ...
Debbie Harry: In A Lonely Place
Interview by Nick Hasted, Independent, The, 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 David Sinclair, Independent, The, 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, Times, The, 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, ...
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