Blondie blew up big with a trio of masterful albums in the late 70s and early 80s, knocking out the hit-laden Parallel Lines, Eat To The Beat and Autoamerican in a quickfire two years between 1978-80 that made them huge. But their recipe for success was quite a particular one, basically one that can be boiled down to loads of drugs, loads of arguments, a flying keyboard here and there, and a producer trying to keep it all in check.
As the band told renowned writer Simon Goddard in an interview for Q Magazine a few years ago, the recreational narcotic side of things were a little out of control. “We did way too many drugs,” said guitarist and songwriter Chris Stein. “Everyone was doing fucking tons of cocaine and that was considered OK. But if you were doing heroin that was like, ‘I can’t talk to you anymore!’. There was a big line drawn and it all got very weird.”
