There is a nostalgic love affair with the photographs of New York in the 1960s and ’70s, specifically the art, music, and nightlife scene that thrived during that time. Chris Stein, a Brooklyn native ...
The cover of Blondie’s 'Parallel Lines': one of pop’s great albums, but not a great album as such Blondie’s New York and the Making of Parallel Lines unquestioningly celebrated the band’s ...
As co-founder and guitarist of the seminal new wave band Blondie, Chris Stein had an all-access pass to one of New York’s most exciting cultural periods. And now he’s offering a personal look at this ...
Chris Stein's photos document a New York that is barely recognizable today. It was a time of boom boxes, Xeroxes and smoking indoors, as well as rents that were cheap enough for artists to afford. It ...
In the late Seventies, Blondie were the most widely mocked band of CBGB’s first punk wave — too pop, not rigorous enough. But after they hit Number One in early 1979 with “Heart of Glass,” their ...
'She was a girl who could sell ice to Eskimos!" That's what a record producer said of Deborah Harry in a documentary about the band Blondie and the making of their breakout album, "Parallel Lines." ...
In the span of just a few years, Blondie went from a band fighting for punk cred at CBGB to international superstardom, thanks in large part to one album: Parallel ...
Lead singer Debbie Harry was a triple threat - a brilliant lyricist, great singer, and beautiful girl who became a fashion icon. She and partner and Chris Stein were at the height of their romance ...
For their first album in three years, Blondie engaged in some crowd-sourcing from a very elite crowd, soliciting writing contributions from Johnny Marr, Sia, Charli XCX, and Dave Sitek. Each wrote (or ...
There have been many incarnations of New York City since 1950 — and Chris Stein shot them all. As a founding member of pioneering new wave punk band Blondie, the 68-year-old Brooklyn born performer is ...
The cover of Blondie’s 'Parallel Lines': one of pop’s great albums, but not a great album as such Still, it had its amusing moments. Among the programme’s other asides was a comment from keyboard ...