"Enduring Music Gives Blondie a Pop Legacy" by Joey Guerra
 

This concert preview covers the Blondie reunion, the No Exit album, the song “Maria” plus Blondie’s past history. Based on interviews with Deborah Harry and Jimmy Destri–Ed.
 


Deborah Harry
 Source: Blondie Reunion web site




"Forgive and forget," Debbie Harry coos seductively on a burbling electro-pop track from "No Exit," the first album of fresh material from original new-wavers Blondie in almost two decades.

In some ways, that simple phrase seems a fitting mantra of sorts for the group, whose slew of enduring pop tunes, including No. 1 hits "Heart of Glass," "Call Me," "Rapture" and "The Tide is High," made Blondie an icon for generations to come.

The group found U.K. success with its 1976 self-titled debut album and its follow-up, "Plastic Letters," but it was Blondie's third effort, 1979's "Parallel Lines," that got U.S. audiences grooving to the mix of rock, rap, disco and reggae....

Source: Houston Chronicle, September 26, 1999
 

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