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Size A2
Our Price Records Blondie Debbie Harry and Chris Stein signing their album ‘Parallel Lines’ 1978.
A2 75 Limited Edition Prints.
Signed and Numbered.
Founded by singer Deborah Harry and guitarist Chris Stein
Blondie broke up after the release of their sixth studio album The Hunter
The band reformed in 1997, achieving renewed success and a number one single in the United Kingdom with “Maria” in 1999. The group toured and performed throughout the world during the following years, and was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2006.Blondie has sold 40 million records worldwide and is still active today. Their ninth studio album, Panic of Girls was released in 2011.
Parallel Lines.
Blondie — Our Price Record Store, High Street Kensington.
A Record signing at Our Price store on High Street Kensington, London.
Photo calls — one of my pet hates.
Not only did you have to contend with about 30 other photographers, but the general public got involved as well. It was always chaos. And as you can imagine, Blondie’s fan base was huge, so the place was packed to the rafters. If you turned up late, you might as well have gone home. End of story.
Picture this: Our Price didn’t open the doors until the band were ready. So you had at least 30 photographers on one side — me included — and what seemed like a million fans on the other.
Then the doors would open.
And the stampede would begin.
If you were lucky, you got to the front. On this occasion, I was lucky and managed to get close enough to get a decent position.
Then I noticed Chris Stein holding his camera high above his head, trying to get a shot of the crowd. I was doing exactly the same thing.
What I didn’t realise at the time was that he was actually looking straight at my camera.
So there we were — two photographers photographing each other, surrounded by a sea of Blondie fans. I had no idea I’d captured the moment until I got back to the darkroom.
Pure fluke.
Sometimes you spend half your life trying to get the perfect shot. Other times, you just point the camera in roughly the right direction and hope for the best.
I got out of doing photo calls as soon as I could and I did
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