What Blondie had over the other New York spawned purveyors of punk isn't easy to define. Was it Harry's irreverent and beautiful voice, or the music Stein created for it? Probably both.
Here, Live By Request, they treat us to a mesmerising performance of some old favourites, including Call Me, Heart of Glass and the sublime Rapture - with only Atomic notable by its absence - to remind us just what made them so unique.
Three decades on, the world's most notorious Playboy Bunny and her band still laugh in the face of their imitators and eat their successors for breakfast.
Released October 3, 2005.
Corrina Kellett
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