Pollinator

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This wasn’t actually Stein’s first walk on the wild side. Similar to goddess-like front-creature Debbie Harry, he had some previous.

Blondie toured for the album during 2017 and 2018, visiting several cities in the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, New Zealand, Australia, Germany, France, Ireland, Mexico, Brazil, Argentina and Cuba. A date in Chile was scheduled but later cancelled and rescheduled for 2019 and going sold-out in ten minutes. [15] During July–August, 2017 Blondie co-headlined the "Rage and Rapture Tour" with Garbage, playing 27 shows in the US, Canada and Mexico. 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. Album – Classifica settimanale WK 19 (dal 2017-05-05 al 2017-05-11)" (in Italian). Federazione Industria Musicale Italiana . Retrieved May 13, 2017. Pollinator has charted higher in most regions than their previous three albums. The album debuted and peaked at number 4 in the United Kingdom, the band's ninth Top 10 album and seventh Top 5 there (and their first since 1999's No Exit). As of July 2017, the album has sold 24,206 copies in the UK. [28] The album also debuted at number 1 in the UK Independent Albums Chart, and remained in the top 50 for 16 consecutive weeks. In the United States, the album debuted and peaked at number 63 on the Billboard 200, also the band's highest charting album in their native country since 1999. The album was more prominent on Billboard's Top Independent Albums Chart where it debuted and peaked at number 4. In Australia, the album peaked at number 29.

Simpson, Dave. "Blondie: Pollinator review – hooks, drums, evocative lyrics: an atomic return". The Guardian . Retrieved 18 June 2017. 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. 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 In this interview from 2017, Blondie talked to Classic Pop’s Paul Lester about their 11th studio album, Pollinator

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. Blondie – About". theblondiestore.com. Archived from the original on 5 February 2017 . Retrieved 8 April 2017. On their 1976 self-titled debut album, from the snarling ( Rip Her To Shreds) to the sugar-sweet ( In The Flesh), Blondie invented a new paradigm: pop-punk.

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His experimentation with LSD precipitated a mental breakdown when he was 19, and he was sent to a sanatorium. “It was standard procedure for young people, to do a couple of months in a place like that,” he plays it down now. “I had a lot of friends who had meltdowns. It was partly from hallucinogenics, and partly a delayed pent-up reaction to my father dying.” 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.” Her referencing of Marilyn [Monroe] and the Hollywood angle of glamour was about empowerment, only divested of any tragic elements.” Christgau, Robert (22 July 2017). "Robert Christgau on Blondie and The Mountain Goats". Vice . Retrieved 22 July 2017.