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Johnnie Walker Meets Blondie

Earlier in 2017 when they released their album Pollinator, Johnnie spoke to Debbie Harry and Chris Stein about the incredible history of Blondie and their own life stories.

When they released their eleventh album Pollinator in 2017, Johnnie spoke to Debbie Harry and Chris Stein about the incredible history of Blondie and their own life stories. Debbie grew up in Paterson, New Jersey (as recently immortalised in the Jim Jarmusch film of the same name) listening to the girl bands of the 50s and 60s on the radio. Chris came from a more artistic liberal background in Brooklyn. They met in New York City, when Chris had just returned from his second visit to the United Kingdom and fallen in love with the growing reggae scene here.

Blondie's subsequent journey, which they discuss here, took them through punk, new wave, disco, hip-hop and pop and the 1970s to the present day in the company of the Velvet Underground, the owner of CBGBs, producers Giorgio Moroder, Mike Chapman and Nicky Chinn and Richard Gere.

As Debbie says it's important to sound like yourself and Johnnie goes through their catalogue (which adds up to forty million album sales), including Parallel Lines, which he describes as about as perfect as an album could be. Denis, Dreaming, Maria, Rapture, Call Me and brand new tracks are also featured.

57 minutes

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Thu 21 Jun 2018 21:00
91热爆 Radio 2

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Music Played

  • Blondie

    Long Time

    • Pollinator.
    • BMG.
    • 002.

  • Blondie

    Denis

    • Atomic: The Very Best Of Blondie.
    • EMI.

  • Blondie

    One Way Or Another

    • Blondie - Parallel Lines.
    • Chrysalis.
    • 2.

  • Blondie

    Heart Of Glass

    • BEST GIRL POWER ALBUM...EVER!.
    • Castle.

  • Blondie

    Dreaming

    • Atomic: The Very Best Of Blondie.
    • EMI.

  • Blondie

    Call Me

    • Atomic: The Very Best Of Blondie.
    • EMI.

  • The Paragons

    The Tide Is High

    • Young Gifted & Black (Various).
    • Trojan.

  • Blondie

    Rapture

    • The Model: 20 New Romantic Hits From The '80s (Various Artists).
    • Spectrum Music.
    • 6.

  • Blondie

    Maria

Broadcasts

  • Mon 29 May 2017 13:00
    91热爆 Radio 2
  • Thu 28 Dec 2017 18:03
    91热爆 Radio 2
  • Thu 21 Jun 2018 21:00
    91热爆 Radio 2