Artist: Blondie Genre(s):
Punk
Other
Pop
Dance
Rock
Rock: Punk-Rock
Discography:
The Curse Of Blondie Year: 2003
Tracks: 16
No Exit Year: 1999
Tracks: 14
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Atomic-Atomix: The Very Best Of [CD 2] Year: 1999
Tracks: 8
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Atomic-Atomix: The Very Best Of [CD 1] Year: 1999
Tracks: 21
Denis Year: 1996
Tracks: 14
The Platinum Collection (Disc 2) Year: 1994
Tracks: 21
The Platinum Collection (Disc 1) Year: 1994
Tracks: 26
The Best Of Blondie Year: 1984
Tracks: 11
The Hunter Year: 1982
Tracks: 11
Eat To The Beat Year: 1979
Tracks: 12
Parallel Lines (Remastered) Year: 1978
Tracks: 16
Parallel Lines Year: 1978
Tracks: 16
Plastic Letters (Remastered) Year: 1977
Tracks: 17
Plastic Letters Year: 1977
Tracks: 15
Blondie Year: 1976
Tracks: 11
Blondie was the near commercially successful dance orchestra to emerge from the much-vaunted punk/new wave drift of the late '70s. The group was formed in New York City in August 1974 by singer Deborah Harry (b. July 1, 1945, Miami), erstwhile of Wind in the Willows, and guitarist Chris Stein (b. January 5, 1950, Brooklyn) out of the remnants of Harry's previous group, the Stilettos. The lineup fluctuated all over the next year. Drummer Clement Burke (b. November 24, 1955, New York) joined in May 1975. Bassist Gary Valentine joined in August. In October, keyboard player James Destri (b. April 13, 1954) joined, to complete the initial lasting batting order. They released their first gear album,
Blondie, on Private Stock Records in December 1976. In July 1977, Valentine was replaced by Frank Infante.
In August, Chrysalis Records bought their contract from Private Stock and in October reissued
Blondie and released the second album,
Fictile Letters. Blondie expanded to a sextet in November with the improver of bassist Nigel Harrison (born in Princes Risborough, Buckinghamshire, England), as Infante switched to guitar. Blondie skint commercially in the U.K. in March 1978, when their hatch of Randy and the Rainbows' 1963 hit "Denise," renamed "Denis," became a Top Ten hit, as did
Fictile Letters, followed by a second U.K. Top Ten, "(I'm Always Touched By Your) Presence, Dear." Blondie turned to U.K. producer/songwriter Mike Chapman for their tierce album,
Analogue Lines, which was released in September 1978 and eventually broke them worldwide. "Mental picture This" became a U.K. Top 40 hit, and "Hanging on the Telephone" made the U.K. Top Ten, just it was the album's third single, the disco-influenced "Nerve of Glass," that took Blondie to number one and only in both the U.K. and the U.S. "Lord's Day Girl" hit number one in the U.K. in May, and "One Way or Another" hit the U.S. Top 40 in August. Blondie followed with their fourth album,
Eat to the Beat, in October. Its number one single, "Dream," went Top Ten in the U.K., Top 40 in the U.S. The second U.K. single, "Union City Blue," went Top 40. In March 1980, the third U.K. single from
Eat to the Beat, "Atomic," became the group's third British identification number 1. (It by and by made the U.S. Top 40.)
In the meantime, Harry was collaborating with German discotheque producer Giorgio Moroder on "Call Me," the theme from the film
American Gigolo. It became Blondie's instant transatlantic chart-topper. Blondie's fifth album,
Autoamerican, was released in November 1980, and its number 1 single was the reggae-ish tune "The Tide Is High," which went to identification number 1 in the U.S. and U.K. The instant single was the rap-oriented "Rapture," which topped the U.S. kill charts and went Top Ten in the U.K. But the band's eclecticist style reflected a diminished participation by its members -- Infante sued, charging that he wasn't being ill-used on the records, though he colonised and stayed in the batting order. But in 1981, the members of Blondie worked on individual projects, notably Harry's gold-selling solo album,
KooKoo.
The Best of Blondie was released in the fall of the year.
The Hunter, Blondie's sixth album, was released in May 1982, preceded by the single "Island of Lost Souls," a Top 40 hit in the U.S. and U.K. "War Child" also became a Top 40 hit in the U.K., just
The Hunter was a commercial disappointment.
At the same time, Stein became severely ill with the genetic disease pemphigus. As a result, Blondie skint up in October 1982, with Deborah Harry launching a part-time solo calling piece lovingness for Stein, wHO finally recovered. In 1998, the original card of Harry, Stein, Destri, and Burke reunited to circuit Europe, their first series of dates in 16 days; a new LP,
No Exit, followed early the next class. After more touring, this was followed by another studio go down,
The Curse of Blondie, in 2003, and a DVD of the
Lively by Request programme from A&E was released in 2004. In 2006, Blondie historied their thirtieth anniversary with induction into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and the press release of
Sterling Hits: Sound & Vision, a best-of collecting that contained all their graeco-Roman videos as comfortably.
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