Performance review, The Warfield, San Francisco, California,
May 30, 1999, including an excellent discussion of Blondie’s significance
and musical influence.--Ed.
Source: Donna
Grayson Blondie Page
Performance review, The Warfield, San Francisco, California,
May 30, 1999, including an excellent discussion of Blondie’s significance
and musical influence.--Ed.
Source: Donna
Grayson Blondie Page
They don't make sex symbols the way they used to. When Blondie vocalist Deborah Harry accepted a bouquet of yellow tulips from a fan midway through the band's concert in San Francisco on Sunday night, she showed her appreciation by biting off a mouthful of petals and spitting them back at the audience. Now that's a star. A punk. A fiftysomething woman. The crowd cheered itself hoarse.
For the first half of the '80s, Harry was the quintessential gutsy bleached blonde whose cool moves inspired Madonna, Courtney Love and No Doubt's Gwen Stefani. During their tenure as chart toppers, the band Blondie created a diva-and- band template still at work in groups ranging from Garbage to the Cranberries, and pioneered a pop-punk fusion that later became the signature sound of '90s indie rock. The difference is that they did it all with an impeccable, mega-platinum cool that no band or singer since has recaptured....
Source: San Francisco
Chronicle, June 1, 1999