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Dibble:

I agree, Blondie never got much kudos from the hip young gunslingers of the NME and the like, but fuck them, what did they know? Strangely, Blondie had a fairly clean public image, but probably got up to as much sex and drugs as any band in the late 70's. They were even ripped off by their management, as is traditional it seems.

As for Debbie, my class at school circa 1978 was split into two factions: one for Joanna Lumley (then Purdey of course), the other for Debbie Harry. I could appreciate Joanna's charms, but was firmly in the Debbie Harry camp.

Underated?

I'd say they are probably ated about as highly as they deserve to be.

Alice In Blunderland wrote:

> It was, but it does slightly annoy me that it is often credited
> as the first by many artists and tv shows when the Sugarhill
> Gang's Rappers Delight song was a big hit on both sides of the
> Atlantic over a year before Rapture was released

Wasn't aware that rapture was considered first rap song. I always
thought rappers delight with it's hook line from a chic song was the first

Cheers for this info.

Alice In Blunderland wrote:

> I think maybe is because it was a white artist doing it, at the
> time of Rappers Delight it seems rap was written off as a
> passing fad and only after Grandmaster Flash started having
> hits and then Run Dmc etc started getting popular was it
> accepted in the mainstream.

Not as good as vanilla ice and the rebel mc though eh?

In the words of Quentin Leo Cook......

Jam nitty gritty, you're listening to the boy from the big bad
city- this is jam hot this is jam hot, mmmmmmmm mm mmmm.