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Exactly forty-nine years ago this month, Blondie released their self-titled debut LP (December 1976)
After forming in late 1974, and becoming an integral part of the burgeoning new music scene (including regular gigs at New York’s happening CBGB club), Blondie recorded a demo in 1975, and then released their debut single “X-Offender” in June 1976.
This album followed six months later.
And despite their live presence in the edgy punk and new wave clubs in the US, the band first broke through commercially 10,000 miles away in Australia.
And it happened when Molly Meldrum played the wrong song on Countdown!
Debbie Harry recalled, “We met Ian [Molly] in 1977... he asked if we had any videos [and] we gave him videos for "X Offender" and "In the Flesh".
On Countdown, they were meant to play "X Offender", but they played "In the Flesh" instead. So our success in Australia was one big mistake."
Keyboard player Jimmy Destri said, “we still thank him to this day" for playing the wrong song. But drummer Clem Burke and guitarist Chris Stein suggested that it may have been a deliberate ploy on the part of Meldrum, because he preferred “In The Flesh” to “X-Offender”.
Whatever the truth is, “In The Flesh” went to #2 in Australia, and off the back of that, the album peaked at #14 in Australia, the only country where it charted.
That success in Australia catapulted the band to their eventual success worldwide, as the band ended their contract with their original label Private Stock Records and signed with Chrysalis in mid 1977.
Chrysalis re-released the album in September 1977.
In 2020, Rolling Stone included Blondie at #401 on its list of the 500 greatest albums of all time.
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