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MYSTERIOUS: Blondie - What They Never Told You

"The idea of the movie is to create the new American hero." The story behind Roadie, the chaotic 1980 cult movie featuring Meat Loaf, Blondie, Alice Cooper and Roy Orbison

Watch Roadie, the only film ever to star Meat Loaf, Blondie and Alice Cooper

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“He said, ‘There's a room upstairs filled with guitars, but you can't see them – we’re only selling them all at once.’ We came back and waved hundred dollar bills in his face”: Blondie's Chris Stein on his greatest (and strangest) guitar shopping spree

Blondie’s days in rugged CBGB’s were many chart-topping hits behind them in 1980, when Stein told GW about the time he and his bandmates got themselves into an unassuming dream guitar store...

Guitar World

I tested the Denon Home 600 — and it’s one of the most ambitious smart speakers yet

The Denon Home 600 smart speaker is huge at 18 inches long, with 8 speakers and a built-in sub. But it’s pricey and has a few app-related issues.

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"He was seriously wondering if the Ramones would ever make it as big as the Bay City Rollers." How the Ramones made the debut album that only sold 6000 copies but changed the world

Few bands shook the UK music scene like NYC punks the Ramones did in 1976. Fewer still can claim they actually built one. Welcome to a revolution

Louder

Euronews Culture's Film of the Week: 'Supergirl' - Save the puppy, save the world

After a strong start to the rebooted DC Universe last year with 'Superman' comes a new space adventure which follows the Man of Steel's chaotic cousin... And her super-powered pup.

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"It was construed as being about a sex worker." The story behind Blondie's misunderstood debut single, released on this day 50 years ago

"I don't think there's a song on the first record without a reference to someone getting shot, stabbed, degraded, or insulted"

Louder

"Like Blondie with Teeth." Shakin' Street mix high-energy rock with post-punk pop sensibility on album starring Ross The Boss and Fabienne Shine

What Ross The Boss did after the Dictators but before Manowar

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The Guide #237: Fab 5 Freddy, the street artist at the heart of New York’s creative zenith

A new memoir by Fred Brathwaite offers an insight into the city’s emerging underground scene in the 70s and 80s – and shows us the power of subcultures in difficult times

The Guardian - UK

"Pete Doherty said that I was a high-kicking acrobat crossed with Nico. I was very pleased with that." Approved by Blondie, Iggy Pop and the Sex Pistols, The Molotovs are a ferocious generational voice

After cutting their teeth in parks and at protests, scooter rallies and mod events, The Molotovs have now sold 10,000 tickets for their upcoming tour

Louder

"I'll definitely take being number one in fourteen countries!" The story of the song that heralded Blondie's comeback – but tanked in the US

Written about "sexual repression causing incredible desire among a school full of boys", Maria was a No.1 across Europe

Louder

"It was construed as being about a sex worker." The story behind the Blondie classic that everyone misunderstood

"I don't think there's a song on the first record without a reference to someone getting shot, stabbed, degraded, or insulted"

Louder

‘The bathrooms were rank, but we didn’t care’: how the grimy-but-great CBGB changed rock for ever

Half a century ago, the famed New York venue run by a former marine and folk singer was ground zero for the punk and new wave scenes. Now the bands who played there are being celebrated on a 101-track box set

The Guardian - UK

Fred Smith obituary

Bass player who provided subtle but potent rhythm and tone to Television on their debut album, Marquee Moon

The Guardian - UK

“You could go to school on what Fred created so effortlessly”: Fred Smith, influential Television and former Blondie bassist, dies at 77

Smith helped define the proto-punk pioneers' sound, and had plans to return to the stage later this year

Guitar World

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Evening Standard

Fred Smith: Blondie and Television guitarist dies at 77

Tributes have poured in for the guitarist, who was described by his former bandmate as a ’natural’ and a ‘true friend’

Louder

"All of our relations, our uncles, dads, granddads, they've banged on about this place for years": What happened when Massive Wagons played the first rock shows at a historic venue in 40 years

British rockers Massive Wagons returned to Lancaster to perform for a show for kids, advocating for anti-bullying and mental health campaigns

Space

Supergirl's rockin' 1st trailer shows intergalactic bar fights, hangovers, and Krypto peeing on Superman's face (video)

Kara Zor-El goes galactic for this wild teaser set to Blondie's '80s anthem, 'Call Me'.

Metal Hammer

"I'll break both yer arms": Memories of life with Lemmy as a friend and neighbour

Classic Rock writer, former Zigzag editor and Motörhead biographer Kris Needs was also Lemmy’s neighbour in London’s Notting Hill

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Debbie Harry is 'against' the idea of performing as Blondie without her 'original guys'

Blondie are unlikely to perform under the band name following the death of drummer Clem Burke.

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Debbie Harry wants Florence Pugh to play her in Blondie biopic

Blondie frontwoman Debbie Harry "would be in heaven" if Florence Pugh played her in the biopic about the 1970s and early 1980s rock band.

MusicRadar

"I've analysed hundreds of players over the years. They're all a part of what I do": Clem Burke's 10 essential drum albums

"You've got to listen to what the greats have done," the Blondie 'heartbeat', who passed away this year told us

Evening Standard

Exhibition of behind-the-scenes photographs of Blondie to open

Blondie, who had hits including Heart Of Glass, Call Me and The Tide Is High, disbanded in 1982 but reformed in the late 1990s.

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Debbie Harry took drugs to avoid 'emotional rollercoaster' during Chris Stein romance

Blondie frontwoman Debbie Harry took drugs to avoid an "emotional rollercoaster" while dating her bandmate Chris Stein in the 1980s, and she believes the pair would've been "severely medicated" if they had visited a psychiatrist.

Louder

"It was pretty awful." Before she found fame fronting Blondie, Debbie Harry was in a 'baroque folk rock' band called The Wind In The Willows. Listen to the never-released Suzy Snowflake, the first professional recording she ever made

Listen to Suzy Snowflake, the first professional recording made by a pre-fame Debbie Harry

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Blondie's Debbie Harry teases exhibition plans

Blondie frontwoman Debbie Harry has kept all of the outfits she wore in the group, and she hopes to centre them in a "little exhibition at some point".

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