In the late 1980s, Blondie stars Debbie Harry and Chris Stein were dining at a fancy Times Square restaurant with Iggy Pop when Jean-Michel Basquiat walked in with a bucket of Kentucky Fried Chicken.

"Hearst Magazines and Yahoo may earn commission or revenue on some items through these links." “It was the pre-gentrified war zone of Manhattan,” says Chris Stein, co-founder of Blondie. “Everybody ...

Formed in 1974 by guitarist Chris Stein and lead singer Debbie Harry, Blondie were pioneers in straddling the divide between new wave and punk and turning it into a palatable mix that took the band to ...

Debbie Harry, the frontwoman of Blondie, is one of the most iconic women in rock. With her sweet yet sassy voice and ...

Blondie's Chris Stein thanked authorities after the arrests of five people charged with distributing the fentanyl that killed his 19-year-old daughter Akira Stein wrote that the arrests offered "some ...

The School of Visual Arts has many distinguished alumni, but only one (so far) is in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Chris Stein (1973 Fine Arts), who in 1974 founded the band Blondie with singer ...

Blondie is a band that lures you in with a siren call and then smashes your head straight into a mirror. And you’ll happily let it happen again, and again, and again. It’s an honor to be concussed, ...

Blondie’s “Heart of Glass” topped the charts as the band’s first number-one hit in the U.S. 44 years ago. But the song was in the works long before its 1978 release. Fans can hear a previously ...

Blondie's Chris Stein thanked authorities after the arrests of five people charged with distributing the fentanyl that killed his 19-year-old daughter Akira Stein wrote that the arrests offered "some ...

The guitarist's daughter Akira died in May 2023 of a fentanyl overdose Blondie's Chris Stein thanked authorities after the arrests of five people charged with distributing the fentanyl that killed his ...