As a young lad I loved ‘Blondie’ and this song is my all time favourite song of theirs. I bought my copy from Ainley’s record shop by the clock tower in Leicester but was really disappointed when the record jumped and wouldn’t play properly on my Fidelity stereo at home. I distinctly remember taking the record back to the shop and waiting while the man went into a back room and played it coming back saying that it was fine and I should go home. Back at home I had to weight the stereo pick up arm with a couple of two pence pieces secured with blu tack to get it to work but work it did.
A couple of months later my parents bought me ‘Parallel Lines’ from ‘Revolver’ (another record shop in Leicester) and as the song was on that album the single hit the shelves and I played the album version instead.
I also remember this song being ‘Number One’ and watching the video on ‘Top Of The Pops’. The sophistication of New York, Jimmi Destri ‘twanging’ the output lead of his keyboard, Chris Stein’s dead pan expression and Debbie looking as gorgeous as ever in that dress. A great song and a great video that I still love to play and watch today. The video is one of the very few music videos I have on my ipod.
Now listen to the song…..
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