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