MY CAREER IN FIVE SONGS
WHILE MANY ’ 70s punk bands reveled in looking disturbing and outrageous, the New York sextet Blondie appeared to spring directly from the pages of Vogue. A highly photogenic lot, the male members of the group routinely sported crisp, matching suits and neatly coiffed hairdos that echoed the Mod fashion sense made famous in Britain a decade earlier. And it certainly didn’t hurt things that their charismatic singer, Debbie Harry, had the kind of glamorous, movie-star good looks that were made for the camera.
“People assume that we had a master plan for how we presented ourselves, but it wasn’t that way at all,” says Chris Stein, the guitarist and songwriter who co-founded the band with Harry in 1974. “The guys all had long hair when we started out, and then we gradually started getting haircuts. We were very attracted to the Mod style and even a motif, so that began to evolve. And Debbie was always inventing and reinventing her own look against the backdrop of what we were doing. Once we had it down, it seemed to
