Clem Burke, the longtime drummer of seminal new-wave rock band Blondie, talks about the group’s 1970s beginnings as if he’s reminiscing about high school. Their classrooms were such clubs as CBGB and Max’s Kansas City, where Blondie vocalist Debbie Harry once worked as a waitress, while Burke and his fellow soon-to-be-famous peers — including the Ramones, Patti Smith Group, Talking Heads, Television, Dead Boys, Johnny Thunders and New York Dolls — made Manhattan’s Lower East Side the epicenter of American music during that time…
Blondie Celebrates Fifty Years at Denver Concert
