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"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

Louder

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

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"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

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"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"

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‘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

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“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

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’

Evening Standard

"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

Louder

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'.

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"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.

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"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.

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"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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Debbie Harry reveals poignant birthday plans following the death of her Blondie bandmate

Debbie Harry wants to remember her Blondie bandmate Clem Burke on her 80th birthday, just months after his own death.

Evening Standard

Erasure’s Andy Bell says Blondie’s Debbie Harry helped him come out

Bell is best known for being half of the synth‑pop duo Erasure who were behind the top five hit songs A Little Respect, Sometimes and Always.

MusicRadar

“Tonight is for Clem and it’s for friendship. An amazing man and a friend of the lads”: Sex Pistols dedicate Sydney show to Clem Burke

“What a drummer, what a friend, what a guy” says Glen Matlock

The Guardian - UK

Clem Burke obituary

Drummer with Blondie who provided the backbone of their string of hit singles and live performances

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"I've analyzed 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 week, told us

The Independent UK

Clem Burke, multifaceted drummer of iconic rock group Blondie, has died

Clem Burke, whose versatile drumming propelled the iconic rock group Blondie during its decades of music that spanned from new-wave punk to disco-infused tunes, has died

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