The definitive book on Debbie Harry and Blondie
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FIRST NEW BOOK ON DEBORAH HARRY AND BLONDIE IN OVER TWO DECADES
“Will I like this book?” asked Deborah Harry, the still sultry lead singer of Blondie, when recently presented with an advance copy. She definitely will, and so will you!
Already being touted as the definitive work on its subject, Blondie, From Punk to the Present: A Pictorial History is the first new book on Deborah Harry and Blondie in over two decades and, as such, constitutes an entertaining and informative resource of lasting value by encompassing the more general subject of popular culture. More than three years in the making, this unique and distinctive 8 1/2″ x 11″ softbound book contains 512 pages of articles, essays, and photographs. The book is available for purchase on Amazon.com and through Blondie.net, the official Blondie website.
Blondie took the music world by storm in the late ’70s and early ’80s, and the influence of this band and its lead singer Deborah Harry is still being felt today and increasingly recognized with the passage of time. Blondie reunited in the late 1990s and subsequently released the albums No Exit (1999) and The Curse of Blondie (2003). And we all await with anticipation as to what Blondie holds in store for us in the future.
New York City-based Blondie was formed in 1974, honing its musical skills at the famous punk rock club, CBGBs, and eventually emerging on top of the new wave scene and then crossing over to the pop music mainstream. Their self-titled first album, Blondie, reflected a punk ethos and 1960s girl group sensibilities or, the Ramones meets the Ronettes, as one music critic opined. Blondie made six albums from 1976 to 1982, the most successful being Parallel Lines, considered by many music critics to be one of the best rock albums of all time. Within this time span, from the late seventies to the early eighties, Blondie constituted a major force on the rock/pop scene, producing a string of hit singles internationally. The most well-known of these singles are the reggae-inspired “The Tide Is High,” the rap song “Rapture,” and the disco-flavored “Heart of Glass” and “Call Me.” More recently, in 1999, the single, “Maria,” debuted at number one in the United Kingdom, making this song the sixth number one single for the group there. With this hit single, Blondie reached yet another milestone