Hanging On The Telephone was not a Blondie original...

The Nerves recorded it first, in 1976




Here's the somewhat better known Blondie version

Another two great songs ruined by some kids

One Direction's dire Comic Relief version of Blondie's 'One Way Or Another' segued with The Undertones 'Teenage Kicks'.

David Cameron you must remember the original versions, have you no standards?


Here's the original Blondie version of 'One Way Or Another'


And The Undertones original version of 'Teenage Kicks'




There's just no comparison with the anodyne, wimpy One Direction cover is there?

A day for 1980's pop music

Following on from this morning's Duarn Duran article I found that Blondie have a new single out 'Mother' and a video to accompany it.



The link to the Duran Duran article? Duran Duran's single is 'Girl Panic', the Blondie album is 'The Panic of Girls' - ooh synchronicity!

The other connection? Debbie Harry, not raunchy in this video but oh the memories from earlier years...

Time...

I know we all have to age, except for Demi Moore and Bryan Ferry of course, but this photo was still unsettling...

That's Sinead O’Connor and Deborah Harry in a hug, oh how I would have loved to have been the meat in that sanswich in the mid 1980s, today less so...

Interestingly I read on Irish Central that

'Sinead O'Connor is looking more like her old self again and is feeling sexier than ever. The Irish singer was seen sporting a shaved head and a new tattoo of Jesus on her chest at an AIDS benefit in Los Angeles last week.

She also had a sexual orgasm enhancement procedure done.

“Also I am excited as I went to see a Dr David Matlock, who administers a thing called a G-shot. . . into a woman's G-spot. . . which is supposed to intensify orgasms by 10 per cent," she wrote in her blog.'

My first MILF?

Debbie Harry's Blondie performing Denis Denis on Top Of The Pops in 1978. She was 33 I was a young teenager, she was my MILF and many others' too.

This is the original music video for Denis Denis

Blondie - Denis Denis by popefucker


This is Blondie live in what year? Maybe 1978 as the shirt seems to be the same as on Top Of The Pops.

Blondie - Denis denis (live) by maryK
And finally from a German music show



Two years earlier I think I was too young to appreciate X-Offender, note the missing trousers again!




And to turn this nto something of a Saturday Night Rule 5 post, here's a young Debbie Harry from her 'Playboy' (?) shoot

Debbie Harry is 65 today

'Denis'


'Picture This'



'One Way or Another' live


Removed so try this one

'Fade Away and Radiate'


'Call Me'



'Sunday Girl'



'The Tide is High'



'Rapture'
Note a rare appearance in a pop music video of me at 3:20















And finally
Deborah Harry & Lily Allen duet on 'Heart Of Glass' Now just imagine the Debbie Harry of 1978 and Lily Allen of now duetting... I think I need a lie down!