What a treat stumbling across this when I should be being productive. I was 14 when I discovered Blondie in 77 and could only dream of going to see them live, let alone in CBGBs. Bristol, England is a long way away for kid with no money and no prospects. So, for 10 minutes I get to live out a dream. Femme Fatal too!! That’s my week made.
Always love watching bands when they were just getting started....of course harry is a cutie....and stein a rocker with long hair....ah to be young again!
Aug. 1975. Summer of JAWS. Biggest Hit Songs : Love Will Keep Us Together, Lady Marmalade, You're No Good. PUNK and DISCO were not even a thing yet! I was about to go into 8th Grade! By high school Parallel Lines and Eat to the Beat would be the "soundtrack to my life" as I left for Art School in 1980.
0:00 Heatwave 1:46 Man Overboard 4:31 Little girl Lies 6:52 A Girl should Know better 10:00 I Cover the Waterfront 13:51 Femme Fatal 16:38 Just go Away "Lullaby" [No footage] Attack of the Giant Ants
@@johnmanning5568 She did succeed. Blondie is the name of the band, not her stage name. Common mistake. So much so that they had buttons made saying "Blondie is a group".
@@TheBrettWilson I assure you that I knew the band was called Blondie! I was there throughout their career from the very beginning. My point was that Debbie Harry wasn’t her birth name that’s all. “Angela Trimble” hasn’t got the same rock vibe as Debbie Harry has it? Imagine TOTP “Here’s Blondie with Angela Trimble!”. Not quite the same!
@@TheBrettWilson maybe not! It was fortunate that she was adopted as a baby by the Harry family who gave her the first name Deborah. As a boy in the 70s I thought that Suzi Quatro was a great made up name for a rock chick. It was only when Google came along that I realised that her birth name is Susan Quatro! Exactly the same with Mickey Finn of T. Rex. Then Google told me he was born as Michael Finn!
Its the original version, the words were changed by the time they recorded Parallel Lines...allegedly to create a song about their manager Peter Leeds with whom they fell out big time.
I never understood why rock journos described early Blondie as "punk rock". There was nothing "punk rock" about them. Just a young rock band starting out and trying to find their sound. Was it just laziness by the journos to describe every band who played at CBGBs as "punk" ? Judging from this footage, Blondie were pretty bad initially. Maybe that's why they got lumped in with all the punk bands.
I class British bands more punk than American bands because Brits have much more of an rough attitude and they didn’t have to fake it because Britain in the 70s looked really rough and depressing so it’ll reflect through British peoples attitudes
@@kelsian_smith03 This comment is dumb. American punks don't have to fake being punks and they certainly have rough lives too. Ever heard of hardcore? Bad Brains? Dead Kennedys? America invented the fast, rough punk sound punk is known for. Not bands like Sex Pistols or The Clash.
Even Blondie considered themselves a punk band back then. Eventually the producers talked Deb into dropping that image because her voice was much better suited to new wave rather than punk but they did, indeed start out as a punk band by their own design.
I think it refers more to their contributions to defining the punk aesthetic than to their music, which was quite sophisticated, not unlike that of contemporaries Television.
