Blondie: Parallel Lives
Author(s): Dick Porter
Drawing upon extensive new first hand interview material from DebbieHarry, Chris Stein and many other significant players in the band's longhistory, a huge archive of personal materials and unpublished interviews,Blondie: Parallel Lives is the definitive eye-witness account of the group'slong and often tumultuous existence.Beginning with their childhoods, backgrounds and influences, the book isalso an evocative homage to the unique New York scene of the 1970s. Itcharts the development of Blondie to their massive popular success andeventual break up.How Debbie Harry set her career aside to nurse Chris through adebilitating and life-threatening genetic disease.It recounts the group's 1997 reformation, subsequent renaissance withtheir No Exit album, the controversies surrounding the 2006 induction tothe Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame, ending in the present with the release ofPanic of Girls.Co-author Kris Needs established a friendship with Harry, Stein and therest of the band that endures to this day. As a trusted confidante, he nowrecounts the full story.
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Kris Needs is a former NME journalist and Zigzag editor. He has written several rock biographies including Joe Strummer and the Legend of the Clash, The Scream: The Music Myths and Misbehaviour of Primal Scream and Trash! The Complete New York Dolls. His acclaimed autobiography, Needs Must is scheduled for reissue in an expanded edition in 2011. He is a regular contributor to Record Collector and Mojo. Dick Porter has gone on to write several rock biographies including Trash! and The Cramps: A Short History of Rock'n'Roll Psychosis. He is a regular contributor to the award winning Mudkiss website.
General Fields
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- : Omnibus Press
- : Omnibus Press
- : 0.648637
- : 01 February 2017
- : 1.1 Inches X 6.25 Inches X 9.25 Inches
- : United Kingdom
- : 01 March 2017
- : books
Special Fields
- : Dick Porter
- : Paperback
- : Revised edition
- : English
- : 782.421660922
- : 320
- : 3 x 8pp