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BBC News
17-07-2025
- Entertainment
- BBC News
Rare behind-the-scenes Blondie photos go on show in London
A new exhibition showcasing rare behind-the-scenes photographs of US rock band Blondie is set to open in free display at the Barbican Music Library will feature 50 images taken in New York during the group's breakthrough year in 1978, when they released their best-known album, Parallel photographs were taken by music photographer Martyn Goddard, who documented the band in concert, backstage, in the studio and during photo said: "When I boarded the plane in May 1978 to photograph Blondie's lead singer, Debbie Harry, in New York, I could not have conceived that there would still be a demand for my images over 45 years later". Mr Goddard described the exhibition as a visual snapshot of a key moment in Blondie's history, capturing the band's "energy, rawness, and style"."Those assignments produced a body of work that resulted in magazine cover stories, album and single covers, tour programmes, posters, a book, and two photo exhibitions." Blondie, formed in 1974, found early success at New York's CBGB club alongside acts like The Ramones and Talking Heads. The band split in 1982 before reforming in the late 1990s. Their chart-topping hits include Heart Of Glass, Call Me and The Tide Is High. A new album is due for release next Barns from the City of London Corporation said: "As pioneers of the New Wave genre, the band produced so many memorable hits, and this new exhibition will certainly bring back many vivid memories of one of the most electrifying bands of their generation." The exhibition follows the death of Blondie's long-time drummer Clem Burke in April at the age of 70, following a cancer in Camera 1978 runs from 14 August to 5 January.
South Wales Guardian
16-07-2025
- Entertainment
- South Wales Guardian
Exhibition of behind-the-scenes photographs of Blondie to open
The photos of the band, fronted by singer Debbie Harry, were all taken in New York in their 'breakthrough year' of 1978, which saw the release of their best known album Parallel Lines, which featured classic tracks such as Hanging On The Telephone, Sunday Girl and One Way Or Another. The free exhibition is being held at the City Of London Corporation's Barbican Music Library, with 50 prints on display of the band in concert, backstage, in the recording studio, and during photo sessions. Blondie, who enjoyed success with singles such as Heart Of Glass, Call Me and The Tide Is High, began their career in 1974 performing at New York's CBGB club alongside the likes of The Ramones, Television and Talking Heads, the band disbanded in 1982 but reformed in the late 1990s. They are due to release a new album next year. Photographer Martyn Goddard said: 'When I boarded the plane in May 1978 to photograph Blondie's lead singer, Debbie Harry, in New York, I could not have conceived that there would still be a demand for my images over 45 years later. 'Those assignments produced a body of work that resulted in magazine cover stories, album and single covers, tour programmes, posters, a book, and two photo exhibitions. 'Blondie in Camera 1978 at Barbican Music Library is my visual record of those images and memorabilia collected during a seminal time in the band's history, and I hope that visitors to the exhibition will enjoy being reminded of the band's energy, rawness, and style.' Chairman of the City of London Corporation's Culture, Heritage, and Libraries Committee, Brendan Barns, said: 'As pioneers of the New Wave genre, the band produced so many memorable hits, and this new exhibition will certainly bring back many vivid memories of one of the most electrifying bands of their generation.' It comes after Blondie's drummer, Clem Burke, died aged 70 in April after a cancer diagnosis. The exhibition at Barbican Music Library will run from from August 14 to January 5.
Leader Live
16-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Leader Live
Exhibition of behind-the-scenes photographs of Blondie to open
The photos of the band, fronted by singer Debbie Harry, were all taken in New York in their 'breakthrough year' of 1978, which saw the release of their best known album Parallel Lines, which featured classic tracks such as Hanging On The Telephone, Sunday Girl and One Way Or Another. The free exhibition is being held at the City Of London Corporation's Barbican Music Library, with 50 prints on display of the band in concert, backstage, in the recording studio, and during photo sessions. Blondie, who enjoyed success with singles such as Heart Of Glass, Call Me and The Tide Is High, began their career in 1974 performing at New York's CBGB club alongside the likes of The Ramones, Television and Talking Heads, the band disbanded in 1982 but reformed in the late 1990s. They are due to release a new album next year. Photographer Martyn Goddard said: 'When I boarded the plane in May 1978 to photograph Blondie's lead singer, Debbie Harry, in New York, I could not have conceived that there would still be a demand for my images over 45 years later. 'Those assignments produced a body of work that resulted in magazine cover stories, album and single covers, tour programmes, posters, a book, and two photo exhibitions. 'Blondie in Camera 1978 at Barbican Music Library is my visual record of those images and memorabilia collected during a seminal time in the band's history, and I hope that visitors to the exhibition will enjoy being reminded of the band's energy, rawness, and style.' Chairman of the City of London Corporation's Culture, Heritage, and Libraries Committee, Brendan Barns, said: 'As pioneers of the New Wave genre, the band produced so many memorable hits, and this new exhibition will certainly bring back many vivid memories of one of the most electrifying bands of their generation.' It comes after Blondie's drummer, Clem Burke, died aged 70 in April after a cancer diagnosis. The exhibition at Barbican Music Library will run from from August 14 to January 5.
BBC News
10-03-2025
- Entertainment
- BBC News
London exhibition celebrates 100 years of black British music
An exhibition celebrating 100 years of black British music aims to "empower" the ethnic communities it originates from. Black Sound London at the Barbican Music Library charts the music's journey from flourishing underground to emerging on to the main starts with the arrival of the Southern Syncopated Orchestra in London from the United States in 1919 and continues through to Fuse ODG's afrobeat answer to 'Do They Know It's Christmas?' more than a century City of London-owned library will also offer people who have a memory of the capital's black music scene an opportunity to share their story and have it saved for future generations. This will be part of two special "heritage collection days" during which people will be able to be interviewed and have an item related to their memory 3D Leonard, who has curated the exhibition with author Lloyd Bradley, said: "Too often in this country, black cultural heritage is packaged presented to the people by those that weren't there, so this type of exhibition at Barbican Music Library and the 'heritage collecting' days reverse the lens."They enable and empower the British black music community to tell their stories of what it was, and what it meant to them, because they must be captured and preserved before these stories disappear forever." Mr Leonard said the exhibition showed how the genres may have changed "but the culture and process didn't"."So Lord Kitchener, Eddy Grant, Carroll Thompson, The Cookie Crew, Jazzie B, Ms Dynamite, and Dizzie Rascal all followed the same guidelines," he free exhibition is part of Destination City, the City of London Corporation's growth strategy for the Square Mile as a world-leading business and leisure organisation, which also manages other cultural and heritage institutions including Tower Bridge, Guildhall Art Gallery and The London Archives, invests more than £130m every year in heritage and cultural activities in the Hayward, from the City of London Corporation, said: "With its many styles and charismatic performers, Black Sound London will strike a chord with everyone who enjoys listening to British black music and is keen to find out how LP sales in niche record shops, air time on pirate radio stations, and community spaces played a key role in its success."The exhibition runs until 19 July.
