If Debbie Harry asks you to call her … you call her. On this day in 1980, Blondie’s “Call Me,” recorded for the Richard Gere-led crime thriller American Gigolo, hit No. 1 on the US Billboard Hot 100 ...

Blondie’s “Call Me” sounds like a Kiss song that was supposed to combine multiple genres. Gene Simmons hated the song in question from the first time he heard it. He may have made peace with it ...

Curious from birth, Fiona is a music writer, researcher, and cultural theorist based in the UK. She studied her Bachelor of Music in London, specializing in audiovisual practices, and progressed to a ...

One of the most versatile classic rock bands of the 1970s and 1980s was Blondie. Blondie songs took ideas from many genres, including disco, rock, pop, new wave, doo-wop, rap, and reggae. It’s ...

Led by the blondie herself—Debbie Harry—Blondie is now known for their subversive yet foundational takes as pioneers of new wave. It’s almost hard to believe that at the time of many of these releases ...