Blondie
I have liked Blondie’s music since I was four years old, which is the age where I received a Blondie cassette tape for my fourth birthday. I used to listen to that tape on a portable tape player, which was also given to me on my birthday. I remember taking that tape recorder/player with me everywhere from the ages of four to seven years. I used to also really enjoy that Blondie tape and had played it numerous times. Sorry, I can’t remember what the tape was called!! hehe and the tape had a photo on the cover with Debbie Harry’s hair in a bun. The songs I used to really like on the tape were “I’m a Gonna Love you to”, “Denis”, “I Know but I Don’t Know” and “Heart of Glass”. Also from the ages of 4-7 when I used to go to The Coast with my family and my parents would drive there, I’d listen to my Blondie and Abba cassette tapes. I also used to constantly listen to my Abba tape when I was a kid.
Photo of a portable tape recorder, similar
to the one I had years ago.
I re-started listening to Blondie’s music when I was in Year 10. In about 1993 I bought the Best of Blondie CD. Some of the songs on that CD are: “The Tide is High”, “In the Flesh”, “Sunday Girl”, “Picture This” and “Rip Her to Shreds”. What I also like about the CD is the cover as it shows Debbie Harry in a really nice white dress and there are great buildings in New York shown behind the band’s photo.
Cover Photo of The Best of Blondie
In about 202, I bought Blondie’s 1978 CD called Parallel lines. I bought it because it’s got some really great songs such as “Hanging on the Telephone”, “Sunday Girl”, “One Way or Another”, “11.59” and “I Know But I Don’t Know” etc.
Cover Photo of Parallel Lines
I also like a few of Blondie’s videos, which I have seen on Youtube and on a late night music show I used to watch called Rage. These videos are “Rapture” and “Heart of Glass”.
Youtube Video of Rapture
In 1998 Blondie reformed as a group and released a new album called “No Exit”. In the same year I bought a CD single from that album which is called “Maria”.
Cover Photos of "No Exit" and the CD Single "Maria"
In about 2004, I rented a DVD movie which starred Deborah Harry and was titled Life Without Me (2003). In the movie Deborah Harry acts as the mother of a lady who is dying of cancer. The reason why I hired this movie is because Scott Speedman was in it and I was/ am a fan of this very attractive American actor.
Photo of Scott Speedman
Photo of Deborah Harry in Life Without Me.
That’s it for today folks.
Frances
Charles Volcher replied:
I have enjoy the music of Blondie/Deborah Harry since there beginnings in 1975/6 also I have lost my virginity to Deborah it was at her hotel one year
after a concert
August 15, 2010 at 4:21 am. Permalink.
franny032 replied:
Good to see you like Blondie like I do. I hope you enjoyed losing your virginity to Deborah. Blondie will be touring Australia in November and December of this year. Hopfully I will be able to see them, then.
August 16, 2010 at 2:28 am. Permalink.
Céline replied:
Very nice article. Deborah is wonderful and I like very much her way of writing lyrics. Chris Stein and Blondie music still influence other bands. A new album soon ! I have got a blog in french about Blondie and Deborah Harry, feel free to visit it 🙂
https://deborahblondie.wordpress.com/
December 2, 2015 at 1:04 pm. Permalink.
franny032 replied:
Thanks for that and the information. I’ll check out your blog when I get the time!
December 3, 2015 at 7:32 am. Permalink.