The short film made the selection of several film festivals in 2021, such as In-Edit Festival (Spain), Rizoma Festival (Spain), Tribeca Film Festival 2021 (United States), Sheffield DocFest 2021 (England), Reykjavik International Film Festival 2021 ( Iceland), Sonoma International Film Festival 2022 (United States), BBC's LongShots 2022 (United Kingdom). Blondie, who may have started off parodying the ephemerality of pop but have become the enduring stars of their – incidentally groundbreaking and world-changing – scene. We are up the road from the station where Stein, a keen student of pop history, says The Beatles got mobbed during a scene in the 1964 movie A Hard Day’s Night.

We played CBGB every weekend for seven months at one point. I remember Clem and I realising we hadn’t paid attention to [satirical US television show] Saturday Night Live cos we were never home on a Saturday night.” The next single from our new album Pollinator premieres tomorrow! Hear 'Long Time' on BBC Radio 2 with Ken Bruce!". Blondie official Facebook account. March 20, 2017 . Retrieved March 20, 2017. As Stein deadpans today: “We all had similar interests.” He laughs when he tells Classic Pop that he has tried explaining to his teenage daughter that, when he was growing up, instead of going to EDM concerts, he would do things like watch counter-cultural renegades Abbie Hoffman, Allen Ginsberg, the Fugs and others attempt to “exorcise and levitate” the Pentagon in America’s capital. 19th nervous breakdown Selected items are only available for delivery via the Royal Mail 48® service and other items are available for delivery using this service for a charge.If his mind wasn’t blown by that little escapade, his state was altered, almost permanently, by the death of his dad when he was 15, and his subsequent immersion in hallucinogenics. Offiziellecharts.de – Blondie – Pollinator" (in German). GfK Entertainment Charts. Retrieved May 12, 2017. So, too, were other future members of Blondie. Bassist Gary Lachman (formerly Valentine), for example, who is now a world expert on the occult. Blondie Pollinator cover

Matching Blondie’s new hybrid music was Harry’s gutter-glamour persona. There had never been anyone quite like her. “Janis [Joplin] was always a victim in spite of her power, whereas Debbie was consciously not going in that direction,” Stein the pop historian comments. The opening bars to Hynes’ Long Time tease with echoes of Heart Of Glass, while the slap of cymbal and snap of a snare drum – familiar from Atomic – are there on Doom Or Destiny (on which Joan Jett makes an inconspicuous appearance), Fun and Too Much. These could be homages, of course, but the results are counter-productive. In 1979, following the deathless glacial disco of Heart Of Glass, Sunday Girl, Dreaming, Union City Blue and the Parallel Lines and Eat To The Beat albums, they were utterly ubiquitous and omnipresent, on the charts and in the music press, even if the latter were tentative with their praise. Her referencing of Marilyn [Monroe] and the Hollywood angle of glamour was about empowerment, only divested of any tragic elements.” Soon, they were gigging regularly at premier NYC dives Max’s Kansas City and the legendary CBGB. “We’d go out every night to see bands or to play ourselves,” Stein remembers.Even as the populace went wild for Blondie, the media were, respectively, cautious of that debut album, savage about the second (1978’s Plastic Letters), lukewarm about Parallel Lines and Eat To The Beat, then critical about 1980’s Autoamerican and merciless regarding 1982’s The Hunter. Their place in the pantheon is assured. Indeed, it seems that the only people Stein needs to convince of Blondie’s greatness are his two daughters. At first, Blondie were the runts of the CBGB litter, dismissed as lightweights next to the more serious and/or intellectually rigorous likes of Television, Talking Heads, Ramones, Richard Hell & The Voidoids and The Patti Smith Group, all regular performers at the Bowery club. Soon, there was division – albeit barely perceived – in the ranks. Le Top de la semaine: Top Albums – SNEP (Week 19, 2017)". Syndicat National de l'Édition Phonographique . Retrieved May 16, 2017.

Leight, Elias (February 8, 2017). "Blondie, Garbage Announce Rage and Rapture Tour". Rolling Stone . Retrieved February 9, 2017. Top 100 Albumes — Semana 19: del 5 May 2017 al 11.05.2017" (in Spanish). Productores de Música de España . Retrieved May 19, 2017. There was definitely a darkness going on ­­– there was the Process Church of the Final Judgment in London and all sorts of weird Satanism and strange shit going on in Los Angeles…” When he first met Stein and Harry in New York’s Little Italy, there were books doing the rounds by the likes of Colin Wilson and Aleister Crowley, which led Lachman to become immersed in the culture. The problem with Pollinator is it’s hard to know why it exists. Nothing’s wrong, naturally, with Blondie’s desire to continue making music: we’re long past it being ‘better to burn out than fade away’, and they’ve already broken up once anyway, only to find the temptation to reform too great. Furthermore, their influence – Debbie Harry’s, at least – has never receded: Lady Gaga’s made no secret of it, and she’s just turned up on Future Islands’ album, too.Blondie were that band: equal parts Shangri-La’s and Standells, with a snotty disregard for the status quo. By 1973, she was a singer with proto-trash-glam-punk outfit The Stilettos and Stein was their guitarist, and before long they were an item, he mesmerised by her beauty, she by his sulking attitude. Not that impressed, though. “No,” he says, somewhat glumly. “It would be a bigger deal if I was Justin Bieber. And they don’t even like Bieber.” And so in 1974, Stein, Harry and Valentine (replaced in 1978 by Frank Infante), together with drummer Clem Burke and keyboardist Jimmy Destri, became the beautiful postmodern monster that was Blondie. Blondie – About". theblondiestore.com. Archived from the original on 5 February 2017 . Retrieved 8 April 2017.

Oh, they take it for granted,” he says, miffed that his girls’ friends are more impressed. “They’re like, ‘Woah, your dad…’” a b c Roffman, Michael (February 1, 2017). "Blondie announce new star-studded album, Pollinator, share ridiculously catchy single "Fun" — listen". Consequence of Sound . Retrieved February 1, 2017. Carlos Alfonso, Ele Valdés, María del Carme Ávila, Alejandro Delgado, Juan Carlos Marín, Jamil Schery, Degnis Bofill, Adel González– Side musicians on "The Tide is High" and "Rapture" Farber, Jim. "Blondie honor their New York City roots on electrifying album Pollinator: EW review". Entertainment Weekly . Retrieved 18 June 2017.Somewhat jet-lagged, he relates in a laconic Brooklyn drawl, how, at the height of their success, his band experienced their own version of Beatlemania.