It’s 1978 and Blondie has invaded Japan like a punk rock Godzilla
01.20.2011
03:37 am

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Pop Culture
Punk

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Blondie
Popteens

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Post modern bubble gum. Blondie on Japanese teen show Popteens in January 1978.

Way before they scored a hit in the States, Blondie were huge in Japan. They were the rock and roll version of Andy Warhol’s Campbell soup can, a distillation in one indelible image of something so American yet so universal. Pop!
 

 

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