The 1970s were a transitional period in popular music. Emerging from the new wave and punk rock scene, the band Blondie, featuring Deborah Harry, achieved both critical and commercial success. Blondie transcended mere popularity by moving away from...

Blondie is the name of an American rock band that first gained fame in the late 1970s, and who have so far sold over 140 million records. The band was a pioneer in the early American punk rock and New Wave scenes. Its first two albums contained strong...

Post-punk stars Blondie are lending their songs to a West End musical based on the Madonna movie "Desperately Seeking Susan," its producers announced Tuesday.The show, adapted from the 1985 film that helped propel the Material Girl to fame, is scheduled to open Oct. 12 at...

Dubbed the "Mayor of the Sunset Strip," Rodney Bingenheimer launched the careers of such bands as Blondie and Blur on his longtime radio rock show. On Friday, the Los Angeles disc jockey received some glitzy gratitude: a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame."I can't...

Since the Beach Boys' "California Girls" hit airwaves decades back, the image of the golden-haired, bikini-clad surfer girl has been hard for Americans to shake. But with Dahlia Season, an explosive series of stories and novella about adolescence in California, Myriam Gurba has blown blondie...

Recording a good cover song is not an easy task, but when a cover succeeds it’s almost more triumphant than the cover band having written the song themselves; just look at what Blondie did with the Nerves’ mini-hit “Hanging On The Telephone” or David Bowie’s...