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See also: Bleached

Blondie is a group of music American, founded in 1974 with New York by Deborah Harry (ex-Wind in the Willows) and Chris Stein (Stilettos ex-Tea), which knew its hour of glory at the end of the Années 1970 and at the beginning of the Années 1980.

Composition of the group

1977: Frank Infante replaces Gary Valentine, it passes then to the guitar after the arrival into 1978 of Nigel Harrison to low.

1998: Reformation of the group with Deborah Harry, Chris Stein, Clem Burke, Jimmy Destri

2000: Paul Carbonara (guitar) and Leigh Foxx (low guitar) joins the group.

Comments

Disco music with the Punk, while passing by the new wave or the Rap, Blondie embraced many musical styles. Among successes of the group, one can quote Call Me (extracted the original soundtrack of American Gigolo , composed by Giorgio Moroder), Denis , Heart off Knell , One Way gold Another , The Tide is High or Atomic . Their song Rapture is regarded as the first title of Rap to be itself hoisted at the head charts.

Debbie Harry and Blondie were close to the New Yorkean artistic scene of beginning of the year 70, in particular of Andy Warhol and of Keith Haring but especially of the punk-new scene wave connected time with Talking Heads and The Ramones. The graffists Fab Five Freddy and Jean-Michel Basquiat make even an appearance in the video clip of Rapture .

Many artists paid homage to Blondie, of which the British duet Erasure which took again Heart off knell and Rapture in 1997 or the group Sleeper which taken again Atomic for the original soundtrack of the film Trainspotting and for the same title Nutty Skanker in version Ska.

While choosing in 1998 the title " Atomic" to illustrate the commercials diffused during the Football world cup, an American famous brand of soda made it possible the group at the head to return from classification of sale of the individual ones.

February 1999, the group is number one of the sales of individual in Great Britain with the title " Maria".

The autumn 2003 marks the return of the group with new a opus: " The Curse off Blondie".

In 2006, the New wave group takes again the song " Heart off Glass" on its second album, Bande has Share. This same year, the group Freedom For King-Kong will take again also the title " Heart off Knell " on its album " Exit of this body ". In 2006 always, Deborah Harry speaks on behalf of the song of Moby " New York, New York " , extracted Best Off of Moby. The two artists collaborate thus to celebrate the city which them has both seen being born.

Discography

  • Bleached (1976)

  • Plastic letters (1977)
  • Parallel Lines (1978)
  • Happy Eat to the (1979)
  • Autoamerican (1980)
  • The Best off Bleached (1981)
  • The Hunter (1982)
  • Ounce More Into The Bleach (1988)
  • Platinum Collection (1994)
  • Beautiful The Remix (1995)
  • Denis (1996)
  • No Exit (1999)
  • Live (1999)
  • Livid (1999)
  • The Best Off (2001)
  • Greatest Hits (2002)
  • The Curse Off Bleached (2003)
  • Live By Request (2005)
  • Greatest Hits: Sight & Sound (2005)
  • Happy Eat to the - Edition collector DVD/2CD (2007)

External bonds

  • official Web site of Bleached
  • official Web site of Deborah Harry
  • official Web site of Jimmy Destri
  • official Web site of Frank Infante
  • Tiki LAB - official French Forum of Deborah Harry and Blondie
  • Web site of enthusiast for Deborah Harry
  • blondieforum.com - Forum of enthusiast for Deborah Harry

Simple: Bleached

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