Blondie does not plan to take a break from performing. The iconic band announced a multi-cultural experience in Cuba, appropriately called “Blondie In Havana.”According to Pitchfork, the experience will take place March 14-18 2019 and will consist “of two career-spanning sets at Havana’s Teatro Mella venue, which will feature Cuban musicians like Alain Perez, David Torrens, and members of Sintesis. It’ll also feature museum visits, photography and architecture tours, hotel and food accommodations, a meet-and-greet photo opportunity, and visits to local artists’ private studios and galleries.”
The band is set to celebrate their 1979 hit “Heart of Glass,” announcing that an extensive EP is set to be released on October 26th. It is the first reissue of the classic song, with the EP including six different versions that the song had gone through. 30-40 rounds of editing ensued with the song and was also made during Debbie Harry and Chris Stein’s relationship. Harry recalled making the song, saying “I was just walking around the house… riffing on Da da da da da! Dah-dah dah-dah. Seeing what flowed out… I remember Chris lying on the bed strumming those chords endlessly,” she added. “Sometimes I had to fight for space on the bed – it was me or the guitar – but after a while I got my own bed and made up the lyrics. That’s how we wrote the song.”
Stein discussed the success of the song in an interview saying ” It only took three incarnations of the song, five years since its inception, and a lot of synth-drum strife for “Heart of Glass” to become an eternal, legendary, unmistakable part of culture. “I don’t know if I would’ve changed anything.”
They recently put on a killer set at San Diego’s KAABOO music festival in Del Mar, CA alongside Foo Fighters, Halsey, Robert Plant, and Katy Perry.
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