Blondie

[just_mills]

I saw Blondie a couple of years ago at Lovebox Festival. The band were absolutely brilliant, and she sang her little heart out. That was SUCH a good day.. Beth Ditto, Blondie, Soft Cell, Scissor Sisters, Kelis.. Ah, Lovebox, I'l be back in the park in July for more fun to be had and memories to be made...

 

[just_mills]

Unfortunately EMI have blocked the video from being view in England. Odd.

 

[Native Son]

 

[just_mills]

She's just goddit!

 

[Native Son]

 

[Rubber Rat]

My favorite Blondie song of all time!

 

[miaedu]

Miss Guy feat. Deborah Harry - God Save New York

 

[miaedu]

Debbie Harry is considering calling time on Blondie, says bandmate Clem Burke

But Burke says 'nothing is finalised yet' and the band are due to release a new album later this year (2013)

Blondie drummer Clem Burke has revealed that singer Debbie Harry is considering bringing the band to an end after 40 years.

"Debbie is 11 years older than the rest of us, so it's on her mind," 57-year-old Burke told the Daily Mail. "We've tried to keep it going for as long as possible, but it's not just up to me. Nothing is finalised yet, but obviously there's no Blondie without Debbie Harry."

Meanwhile, a spokesperson for Harry told the newspaper: "They are in a hiatus at the moment. They will do some tour dates next year. Nothing is confirmed yet."

Blondie completed an extensive UK tour earlier this month (July), including a set at Isle Of Wight Festival, and have a run of North American dates scheduled during September and October. The band are due to release a new album called 'Ghosts Of Download' later this year and the lead single, 'A Rose By Any Name', which features Gossip singer Beth Ditto, was released on iTunes last month.

The legendary band formed in New York in 1974 and went on hiatus eight years later, shortly after the release of their sixth album 'The Hunter'. Since reforming in 1997, the band have toured regularly and released three studio albums: 'No Exit' (1997), 'The Curse Of Blondie' (2003) and 'Panic Of Girls' (2011).


Read more at http://www.nme.com/news/blondie/71695#mSH7e8wtopdwbj3B.99

 

[miaedu]

CBGB Trailer

 

[miaedu]

Blondie's Chris Stein Reveals Trove of Rare Seventies Photos

Debbie Harry, Joan Jett talk punk underground at Los Angeles opening

https://www.morrisonhotelgallery.com/set/default.aspx?setID=2500

On August 9th, Blondie guitarist Chris Stein returned to the decade that launched his band, opening an exhibition of his photography at the Morrison Hotel Gallery, Sunset Marquis Hotel, in West Hollywood. Debbie Harry, Joan Jett and other survivors of the Seventies underground music scenes in New York and L.A. depicted in the pictures joined him to remember how it all began.

"Chris was the one who taught me how to relax in front of the camera," Harry recalled to Rolling Stone, sitting with her ex-boyrfriend Stein as guests crowded into the small gallery. "I didn't think I would really enjoy doing it until he started shooting me. We had an intimacy. It was never that serious. It was just fun to do."

500 Greatest Albums: Blondie's Parallel Lines

Some of those same pictures were among the first that many fans ever saw of Harry, who began appearing on international magazine covers once Blondie exploded into the mainstream with their 1978 album, Parallel Lines. "It was a really wonderful time, a lot of great music, and I was living my dream," Harry said. "I was in a touring, working rock & roll band that really got up people's noses."

Read more: http://www.rollingstone.com/music/n...-rare-seventies-photos-20130812#ixzz2bv91v7gC

 

[miaedu]

Blondie, Adam Ant, The Psychedelic Furs, The Fixx, Rick Springfield, Sugarhill Gang and Berlin are set to perform at Los Angeles radio station 93.1 Jack FM’s big “Flashback” concert this fall at The Theatre at Honda Center in Anaheim, Calif. A portion of ticket proceeds from the Sept. 21 show will go to Talk About Curing Autism.

http://931jackfm.cbslocal.com/flashback-jack/

 

[miaedu]

Blondie is currently on tour the U.S. with special guest X in tow, the 18-date trek dubbed the “No Principals Tour” will include, with the purchase of each ticket, downloads of five exclusive new songs off Debbie Harry and Co.’s forthcoming 10th studio album, which is expected to be released later this year.

Blondie and X tour dates:

Sept. 5: Hampton Beach Casino Ballroom, Hampton Beach, NH
Sept. 6: The Rapids Theatre, Niagara Falls, NY
Sept. 7: Golden Nugget Hotel & Casino – The Grand, Atlantic City, NJ
Sept. 9: 9:30 Club, Washington, D.C.
Sept. 11: PNC Pavilion at Riverbend Music Center, Cincinnati, OH
Sept. 12: Royal Oak Music Theatre, Royal Oak, MI
Sept. 14: Riot Fest, Chicago, IL
Sept. 17: King County’s Marymoor Park, Redmond, WA
Sept. 19: Nob Hill Masonic Center, San Francisco, CA
Sept. 20: Montalvo Arts Center, Saratoga, CA
Sept. 23: The Santa Fe Opera House, Santa Fe, NM
Sept. 26: Stubb’s Waller Creek Amphitheater, Austin, TX
Sept. 27: Warehouse Live – Ballroom, Houston, TX
Sept. 28: State Fair of TX – Silverado Main Stage, Dallas, TX
Sept. 30: Ryman Auditorium, Nashville, TN
Oct. 1: The Buckhead Theatre, Atlanta, GA
Oct. 3: The Keswick Theatre, Glenside, PA
Oct. 4: Roseland Ballroom, New York, NY

 

[miaedu]

Blondie - "Sugar On The Side"

 

[miaedu]

Blondie celebrates 40th anniversary with new album, greatest hits collection

Debbie Harry’s 68 and Chris Stein’s 64, but Blondie’s 40. To celebrate, the legendary New York outfit has put together a special double-disc release and slapped on a confusing title: Blondie 4(0) Ever.

Released May 13th, the collection bundles new recordings of their past hits with their tenth studio album, which is actually dubbed, Ghosts of Download. If you recall, Journey marketed the same package deal back in 2008 with Revelation, but don’t fret if that doesn’t ring a bell.

Recorded at New York’s Mercy Sound Studios, the followup to 2011′s Panic of Girls comes stocked with 12 originals and a cover of Frankie Goes to Hollywood’s big hit, “Relax”. Last year’s single “A Rose By Any Name”, featuring Gossip’s Beth Ditto, also joins the bunch.


Greatest Hits Tracklist:

01. Heart of Glass
02. Dreaming
03. Tide Is High
04. Maria
05. Sunday Girl
06. Hanging on the Telephone
07. Rapture
08. One Way or Another
09. Call Me
10. Atomic
11. Rip Her to Shreds

Ghosts of Download Tracklist:

01. Sugar on the Side
02. Rave
03. A Rose By Any Name
04. I Want To Drag You Around
05. Winter
06. I Screwed Up
07. Relax
08. Take Me In The Night
09. Make A Way
10. Mile High
11. Euphoria
12. Take It Back
13. Backroom

http://consequenceofsound.net/2014/0...ts-collection/

 

[IceColdLover]

Favorite Blondie song?

Pick a song from the poll or specify which one you like in a comment.

 

[IceColdLover]

Re: Favorite Blondie song?

So indecisive about this one. I love all the options, but I also favor "Denis", "Picture This" "Detroit 442", "The Hardest Part", "(I'm Always Touched By Your) Presence, Dear", "Sunday Girl", "Rip Her To Shreds", "In The Flesh", "Union City Blue", "War Child", "Island of Lost Souls" and "Mother".

 

[Cormac135]

Re: Favorite Blondie song?

Picked Heart Of Glass but it could have been any of them plus a dozen more.

Outstanding band.

 

[lg7979]

Re: Favorite Blondie song?

For me this is the hardest one of these you've posted, I love all of those options!
I've gone for Hanging on the Telephone, just because it seems to suit my mood right now, but it really could be any of them.

 

[miaedu]

Debbie Harry on punk, refusing to retire and sex at 69

Forty years after Blondie found fame on the New York scene, Debbie Harry is still waving the flag for women in the music business – of every age

In 1980, during a tour with Blondie, Debbie Harry hosted a tea party at a London hotel, gathering together many of the women prominent in music at the time. Chrissie Hynde was there; Siouxsie Sioux; the Slits guitarist Viv Albertine; Pauline Black from The Selecter; and Poly Styrene from X-Ray Spex. Chris Stein, Harry’s boyfriend at the time as well as the other half of Blondie’s creative core, published pictures of it in his recent book Negative, a collection of his photographs from the early years of their fame.

It looks as though there was a lot of laughter. This was a different time for women in music. Two years earlier Kate Bush, who was invited to tea but didn’t make it, had become the first female solo performer to reach number one in the British charts with her own song (Wuthering Heights).

There was a widespread assumption that there was room for just one main female performer in each genre. If another appeared, they were expected to battle it out for the title of queen of pop/soul/disco/punk.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/...on-punk-refusing-to-retire-and-sex-at-69.html