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Welcome back to the Apple Insider Podcast.

I'm Victor and this week William is off. William is out in the world doing wonderful things.

We have a very special guest Jimmy Destry, who is the keyboard player, the original keyboard

player for the band Blondie.

And we met up, we were in W-U-N-C studios to talk about how iTunes and Spotify and digital distribution has changed things for him as an artist.

We talked a little bit about his path from Blondie to where he is today. We talked about what it's like using digital music now and we talked a little bit about

some of his experiences because he went to high school with Jimmy Iovine and Steve

Job's impressions that he got from Jimmy going across there. So I hope you'll join

us. I hope you'll sit back and listen this is going to be a fun one

welcome to this segment of the Apple Insider podcast I'm Victor and joining me is Jimmy Destry

Hi Victor

Jimmy tell tell my listeners a little bit about your background.

I was a boy from Brooklyn, New York and I happened to be at the right place at the right time because

when the whole art scene started there, New York was pretty much peeling and going down the tubes.

It's when Jerry Ford said and not many people remember this maybe they will because it is a

podcast and you'd reach everybody Jerry Ford said to New York, drop dead.

New York was broke.

It was the time of Kojak and French connection

and the seedy subways and everything was wrong.

If you could imagine New York at that time,

you would have to imagine those smoking vents

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