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Amid rumours that Blondie is to split, UK rock newspaper NME (New Musical Express) reports that the band's upcoming UK tour has been cancelled.
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Debbie Harry (Blondie) : I don’t know if Blondie ever did reach a natural end. We were sort of forced out of the box really. Our management company fell apart, the president of our record company split up with his business partner. It was basically a whole bunch of business things that went wrong.
That was coupled with the fact that Chris (guitarist/boyfriend Chris Stein) was out of action for a while (with a life-threatening skin condition). I think had not all of those things happened at once, there would have been something to hold onto. As it was, there was nothing.
Everything fell apart and I don’t think that anyone could hold Blondie, as individuals or the band, responsible for all of that. It was just this kind of eruption or disintegration of the whole fucking machine simultaneously. It’s just a very rare kind of occurrence and very sad.
It was mind-numbing actually. We had worked practically non-stop for seven years, so we were probably over-worked and over-tired and the whole thing was just badly handled.
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That was coupled with the fact that Chris (guitarist/boyfriend Chris Stein) was out of action for a while (with a life-threatening skin condition). I think had not all of those things happened at once, there would have been something to hold onto. As it was, there was nothing.
Everything fell apart and I don’t think that anyone could hold Blondie, as individuals or the band, responsible for all of that. It was just this kind of eruption or disintegration of the whole fucking machine simultaneously. It’s just a very rare kind of occurrence and very sad.
It was mind-numbing actually. We had worked practically non-stop for seven years, so we were probably over-worked and over-tired and the whole thing was just badly handled.
(Source : not known)