Hi everyone and thank you for tuning in to the 470th episode of The Hollywood Reporter's

Awards Chatter Podcast.

I'm the host Scott Feinberg, THR's Executive Editor of Awards.

And my guests today are two legendary musicians who co-founded and for nearly 50 years, accepting

a 17-year hiatus from 1982 through 1999, have been the backbone of the tremendously

groundbreaking and influential punk new wave band Blondie, while also co-writing most

of the songs for which the group is known, lead singer Debbie Harry and guitarist Chris

Stein.

Blondie has been described by Esquire as a pillar of punk rock's birth and the biggest act

to emerge from first wave punk, by Rolling Stone as the band that shattered the new wave stigma

of non-commercialism, and CBGB's greatest success story, and by the guardian as one of

the most influential bands of the past century.

While the Los Angeles Times called it one of the most successful and trend-setting bands

of all time, and noted that, alone among the CBGB-born bands, it had hits.

Indeed, four of Blondie's tunes hit number one on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, two of

them disco, heart of glass, and call me, one reggae, the tide is high, and one hip hop

rap, rapture.

And the band has sold upwards of 40 million records, making it in the estimation of the

New York Times the punk era's best-selling group, with a sound, attitude, look and aesthetic

that proved inspirational to generations of artists across the spectrum of genres.

Though Blondie has somehow only received two Grammy nominations over the years for best

rock performance by a duo or group with Vocal for Call Me in 1981, and Best Video of

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