Like it or not, fact is, before Madonna and Courtney Love, Deborah Harry was music's first bleached-blonde bombshell. Before the Beastie Boys there was "Rapture..." So even, back then, Harry, a former Playboy bunny and consummate diva, was "pretty fly for a white girl." And for all its quirkiness, no one can deny that Blondie crossed music boundaries, defied categorization, creating trends instead of following them.

"We were always kind of being ourselves," says drummer Clem Burke. "I think Blondie was a little ahead of the curve a little bit, which is why you're seeing so much interest in the band today. We weren't doing anything other than being ourselves. So we didn't really follow any trends. I think, if anything, we created trends. Not to be egotistical about it, but, certainly, when Deborah appeared for the first time with Blondie, there weren't too many women out there doing what she was doing."

Source: Ink19.com web site, April 1999
 

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