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Blondie is an American rock band founded in 1974 in New York City by singer 
Debbie Harry and guitarist Chris Stein. The band was a pioneer in the American 
new wave scene of the mid-1970s in New York City.

Its first two albums contained strong elements of punk and new wave, and although
highly successful in the UK and Australia, Blondie was regarded as an underground
band in the U.S
Inspired by the burgeoning new music scene at the Mercer Arts Center in Manhattan,
Stein sought to join a similar band. 
He joined the Stilettoes in 1973 as their guitarist and formed a romantic 
relationship with Harry, who was one of the band's vocalists, a former waitress 
and Playboy Bunny. Harry had been a member of a folk-rock band, the Wind in the 
Willows, in the late 1960s. In July 1974, Stein and Harry parted ways with the 
Stilettoes and Elda Gentile, the band's originator, forming a new band with 
ex-Stilettoes bandmates Billy O'Connor and Fred Smith.

Originally billed as Angel and the Snake for two shows in August 1974, they had 
renamed themselves Blondie by October 1974, while Ivan Kral joined the band on 
guitar.The new name derived from comments made by truck drivers who catcalled
"Hey, Blondie" to Harry as they drove past.

61 albums