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Speaker 1: All right, well, how do you reckon? We went with

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Speaker 1: this one? Okay, it was was, it was okay.

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Speaker 2: I haven't listened for a little scrap we had at

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Speaker 2: the start. It's just like like a little married couple here.

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Speaker 1: You to disagree with me?

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Speaker 3: An envelope contains the music topic to discuss.

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Speaker 1: This five minutes on the clock to film, and there's

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Speaker 1: no time to prep. This is banter with Clezy and Lisa.

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Speaker 1: You've been handed the envelope, Lisa.

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Speaker 3: And I am opening it.

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Speaker 1: It's a large envelow. It is very big.

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Speaker 3: And the subject of this week's banter is Blondie.

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Speaker 1: Ooh, okay, five minutes time starts.

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Speaker 3: Now, well, it's funny this morning. We just played Blondie

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Speaker 3: a little while ago, and you Dine Claires did, in

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Speaker 3: fact say, now, that's one band I would have liked

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Speaker 3: to have seen.

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Speaker 1: Live, would have loved to have seen them live at

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Speaker 1: their peak, at their peak, at their peak.

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Speaker 3: But of course their peak was late seventies, and we

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Speaker 3: were but mere children, weren't even allowed to go to

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Speaker 3: the shop on our own for twenty cents worth of

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Speaker 3: mixed Lolly's, I'll go to a Blondie concert.

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Speaker 1: Well, you could go to the Worrik shops and get

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Speaker 1: some bollies. You in a closeted household like that. Oh,

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Speaker 1: I digress.

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Speaker 3: I wasn't expecting an argument over that, but anyway.

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Speaker 1: I know there's no argument. I thought it was funny.

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Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, no, I know exactly what you're saying. Parallel

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Speaker 2: Lines came out in ninety seventy eight. We were just

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Speaker 2: little munchkins at the time. But what a band. They

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Speaker 2: had it all going for them, didn't they.

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Speaker 3: So do you know much about Blondies very early days?

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Speaker 3: You know? I told you recently I watched the Sex

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Speaker 3: Pistols mini series on whichever one it was, I think

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Speaker 3: it's Disney, and absolutely loved the heck out of it

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Speaker 3: and learned about one of my favorites, Chrissy Hind. I

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Speaker 3: didn't realize how much involvement she had in the early

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Speaker 3: days of the punk scene in the seventies. Was Blondie

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Speaker 3: sort of aligned with that, but in the.

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Speaker 2: US more seen as a new wave kind of act.

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Speaker 1: I think, okay, she had that.

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Speaker 2: I mean, obviously from the very early on, everyone went

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Speaker 2: this woman looks like a star, and.

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Speaker 1: I mean she was so hot. Yeah, and she could

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Speaker 1: act as well.

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Speaker 2: She was in quite a few movies, in a bit

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Speaker 2: of TV as well in the early days. But she

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Speaker 2: she had an association with well, a lot of New

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Speaker 2: York but she had an association with a lot of

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Speaker 2: the arty people around town. And also when you think

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Speaker 2: about her being one of the most photographed people in

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Speaker 2: rock history, she's up there with Stevin Nicks.

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Speaker 1: Really when you think about that, well, she was.

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Speaker 3: A novelty, you know. I mean, she was the female

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Speaker 3: lead singer of a band. Yeah, I was going to

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Speaker 3: say rock band, but I suppose it's a rock band.

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Speaker 1: Rock band. It was a rock chick.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, when we played it's a rock band. She had

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Speaker 2: so much going on, and you know, her later career

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Speaker 2: we can get to later. But she had an association

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Speaker 2: with you know, Andy Warhole, and he loved beautiful Warhole.

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Speaker 3: I mean, he's had his musices, he.

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Speaker 1: Had a few musices. I've known his moment. He obviously

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Speaker 1: took lots of photos of the like.

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Speaker 3: She was very photogenic, absolutely, you know, whatever you sort

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Speaker 3: of thought of her looks, she had a great she

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Speaker 3: had great eyes, great hair, great she just had a

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Speaker 3: photogenic going on.

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Speaker 2: She also had a great band around a Clem Burke

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Speaker 2: was in the band and a guy called Christine who

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Speaker 2: was her partner in life, and she nursed him through.

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Speaker 1: We nearly lost him several years ago. She nursed him

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Speaker 1: through his ill health for many.

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Speaker 2: Years, her partner in life.

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Speaker 3: I have wondered about her, her romantic life.

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Speaker 1: I didn't know.

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Speaker 3: I didn't know what went on with Blondie.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, Christine got very sick. I'm not exactly quite private. Yeah, absolutely, yeah,

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Speaker 2: not really sure what happened to him, but he was

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Speaker 2: sick for a long time. She nursed him through and

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Speaker 2: he's still with us.

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Speaker 1: Now, okay.

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Speaker 3: And so they were band members, band mates.

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Speaker 1: Band mates absolutely.

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Speaker 2: And also when you think about the classic Blondie songs,

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Speaker 2: there was no real style to any of it. And

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Speaker 2: they talked about them being in new wave on new romantic,

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Speaker 2: new wave band more than anything in the States. But

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Speaker 2: the music was very different to the new romantics that

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Speaker 2: came in from England three or four years later.

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Speaker 3: But she definitely had style when it came to fashion.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and you also think about some of those early hits,

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Speaker 2: some of those hits, so really the first female rapper

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Speaker 2: in a Rocks in a pop song, first female rapper,

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Speaker 2: yeap eating cars and all the rest of it. Because

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Speaker 2: Rapture was one of those was seen as the first

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Speaker 2: female rap song and one of.

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Speaker 1: The really early rap singles because she did a rap

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it didn't sound very much like what was coming

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Speaker 2: year later.

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Speaker 3: I think she influenced a lot of women in the

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Speaker 3: music beers, not least all one Chrissy. Amphlet suggests that

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Speaker 3: there is a fair bit of trying to be like

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Speaker 3: Blondie and Chrissy in Chrissy's days on stage, although she

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Speaker 3: wasn't as she wasn't as classy.

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Speaker 2: As blond I never had a certain way about her

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Speaker 2: and she Chrissy.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, Chrissy had a certain way about her.

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Speaker 2: I also think with the Harry, I don't think she

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Speaker 2: would tolerate fools. Same same to a lot of you know,

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Speaker 2: like you mentioned Chrissy Hind even women who wouldn't tolerate

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Speaker 2: fools because they're surviving in a rock world. They're surviving

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Speaker 2: in a business which is so caught up and so

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Speaker 2: run by men, and for so many years run by

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Speaker 2: men for men. So women who were breaking down the

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Speaker 2: doors were now you can say that the language is corny,

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Speaker 2: but it's true.

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Speaker 1: They were doing. They were the ones who helped the

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Speaker 1: other sort of forde their way through.

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Speaker 3: When I think of Blondie, I have to remind my

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Speaker 3: son must have been I have to remind myself that

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Speaker 3: it is Deborah Harry. Yes, sometimes you kind of get

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Speaker 3: the it just becomes I mean, she is blonde, and

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Speaker 3: you think Blondie was the image. It's a bad and

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Speaker 3: I bet there was a lot of confusion back in

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Speaker 3: the day. You know our last you know, mister Tully.

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Speaker 1: Which one is stealing? And damn you know that kind

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Speaker 1: of stuff.

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Speaker 2: Yes, and then we had her later hits when her

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Speaker 2: solo career, you know, I want that man and the

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Speaker 2: like fans. The time is over that man. Bloody six

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Speaker 2: a FM Clezi and Lisa