While I always knew how tall Blondie stood among New York's original punk vanguard, I didn't truly discover them until my peers in rural southwest Michigan did. Our town's pair of primarily Top 40-oriented stores simply didn't carry the likes of Blondie (1977), or Plastic Letters (1978).

In my hometown, if you couldn't pack an arena, and play the muscular brand of hard rock that folks demanded back then, you didn't matter--so my epiphany arrived along with everybody else's schedule, after Parallel Lines (1979) and its smart, sassy leadoff single, "Heart of Glass"....
 

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