Clem Burke has left us - which is obviously a tragedy, but it's another small part of my youth gone, too. I do hate getting selfish about losing people, but I can't help it.
Blondie were a large part of my life, at the end of the '70s, and the beginning of the '80s, but I wasn't alone: they were probably the biggest pop presence in everyone's life, behind ABBA, maybe. To me, they'll always be the sound of school discos, the light in the eyes of the girls in my class, as they learned to grow and find role models and idols. They were a force of positivity and hope, but also of dreams and romance. There was a power, but a sadness too. As an example of all of these things, have some of this: still one of all-time favourite Blondie moments.
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