The Bowery Hotel
The Bowery Hotel
The Bowery
At 335 Bowery, a block up the street from the old CBGB at number 315.
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Permanent colour · Bowery shade · New York, 1974–1982
BlondieClubs, studios, a loft and a ballroom, 1963–2025
Results may vary
Shown: 1982, backcombed platinum.
Ten levels, black to lightest blonde
Dark roots. Lift them to platinum.
Every stroke of peroxide lifts the hair one level and brings up one more place on the way to the name.
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Level 1, black. Nine lifts to go.
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Debbie Harry grew up in Hawthorne, New Jersey, where her parents ran a gift shop. She has said she hated suburbia and dreamed of a bohemian life in New York.
She sang in her church choir and graduated from Hawthorne High School in 1963. Hawthorne is 29 km from the Bowery as the crow flies.
315 Bowery · 5 May 1974 – 2008
Five to seven nights a week.
A clean wrist at the door. Seven nights to go.
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315 Bowery. The club has gone and a shop has the room; see the building from the pavement.
A block south · Mid-1970s · a private building, not on the map
The Blondie Loft
The Blondie Loft was a four-storey Bowery building with a liquor store on the ground floor, about a block south of CBGB.
Harry, Stein and Gary Valentine lived there. The band rehearsed there, and friends gathered there before heading up the block to CBGB. Benton Quin, the building’s unofficial landlord, lived upstairs. Burke remembered Harry helping him bleach his body hair blond.
The designer Stephen Sprouse moved onto the top floor and began dressing Harry. In 1976 he art-directed the band’s first two videos.
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Upstairs · Plaza Sound · 1976
Blondie recorded their first single and first two albums at Plaza Sound, a studio above Radio City Music Hall.
The room had been an NBC Symphony Orchestra radio studio and a rehearsal space for Arturo Toscanini.
Larry Uttal’s Private Stock label agreed to one single, with an option on an album, and sent Craig Leon to record it. The debut album, Blondie, was recorded in 1976 and came out in 1977.
Downstairs · the Great Stage · the 1950s
Harry’s parents took her to Radio City’s Christmas shows in the 1950s, when the CBGB owner Hilly Kristal sang in the chorus behind the Rockettes.
Rockefeller Center · 1976
Upstairs from the Rockettes.
A working music hall. Take the hour-long tour or book a show. The tour runs about an hour, through the Grand Foyer and the auditorium to the Great Stage. Adults pay $44–46.
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Radio City Music Hall
Radio City Music Hall Tour Experience
Rockefeller Center · About 60 minutes · adults $44–46
An hour through the Grand Foyer and the auditorium to the Great Stage. Plaza Sound, where Blondie made their first records, was upstairs.
Book the tourSt Marks Place, East Village · About 1967 and 1977
One block, two doors.
The Dom
Around 1967, not long after she moved to the Lower East Side, Harry saw the Velvet Underground here, with Andy Warhol running the lights from the balcony.
Chris Stein saw them on another night. That year his teenage band, sometimes called First Crow on the Moon, stepped in to open for them at a place called the Gymnasium.
Number 23 is a row of shops and restaurants on St Marks Place. See it from the street.
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Manic Panic
Tish and Snooky Bellomo sang backup in an early Blondie line-up.
In 1977 they opened Manic Panic at 33 St Marks Place, selling vintage clothes, stilettos and stage make-up.
They first carried hair dye home from England for the shop. Customers wanted it wholesale, and it became the brand. The company has been in Long Island City, Queens, since 1999.
The shop has moved on. Number 33 is on the same block as the Dom; see it from the street.
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Compare tours321 West 44th Street · June – July 1978
Six weeks on West 44th Street.
Day one. The lines are all over the place.
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321 West 44th Street, west of Times Square. See the building from the street.
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Vivian Beaumont Theater, Lincoln Center · 23 July 1985
Paint her on a computer.
0 of 4 regions filled.
On 23 July 1985 Commodore launched the Amiga 1000 here, selling it as a computer for creative work.
On stage, Andy Warhol made a portrait of Debbie Harry live: a photograph of her was digitised, and he changed its colours in ProPaint, a paint program still in testing.
A working theatre at Lincoln Center. Book a show to go in. 2 km north of Radio City.
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Park Avenue · Cleveland · Pilton · 13 March 2006 – 2025
The heartbeat.
Seven names on the plaque
Blondie were inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame here, at the Waldorf-Astoria, on 13 March 2006.
Shirley Manson of Garbage inducted them. The plaque names seven: Deborah Harry, Clem Burke, Jimmy Destri, Nigel Harrison, Frank Infante, Chris Stein and Gary Valentine.
Frank Infante asked from the stage to play with the band. Harry said no, and he walked off.
A hotel again, on Park Avenue. Book a room or a table to go in. The hotel closed in 2017 and reopened in July 2025 with 375 rooms, down from 1,400.
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Waldorf Astoria New York
Waldorf Astoria New York
Park Avenue, Midtown
Reopened in July 2025 with 375 rooms. Blondie entered the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame here in 2006.
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Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
The Hall calls Blondie new wave pioneers who took on reggae, rap, punk and disco over a base of 1960s pop.
In 2014 a CBGB awning was on show in the museum.
Open daily 10am–5pm, Thursdays to 9pm, September to June. Adults $45.
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Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
Cleveland, Ohio · Daily 10am–5pm, Thursdays to 9pm, September to June · adults $45
The museum by Lake Erie that inducted Blondie in 2006.
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Worthy Farm, Pyramid Stage
On Sunday 25 June 2023 they played the Pyramid Stage after Yusuf/Cat Stevens, opening with One Way or Another. Harry wore black sequins and a dark visor.
Blondie played the Pyramid Stage in 1999 and the Other Stage in 2014. Early in 2023 Clem Burke let slip on the radio that they would be back.
Working farmland. The field is open only to festival ticket holders.
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Clem Burke · 1954–2025
Clem Burke died in April 2025, aged 70, after a private battle with cancer. The band called him the heartbeat of Blondie.
Burke joined in 1975 after answering a Village Voice advert for a drummer. For Burke, Gary Valentine’s arrival on bass was the real beginning of Blondie.
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From a school in Hawthorne to a field in Somerset: 5,413 km, sixty years apart.
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Where it is now
11 places you can visit, from St Marks Place to a farm in Somerset. The Blondie Loft was a home, so it is named on this page and left off the map.
Pins mark public places; private homes are named but not pinned.
General reference · Public access · Coordinate precision: building · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. Number 23 is a row of shops and restaurants on St Marks Place. See it from the street.
General reference · Public access · Coordinate precision: building · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. The building stands at 213 Park Avenue South, by Union Square. See it from the pavement.
General reference · Public access · Coordinate precision: building · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. 315 Bowery. The club has gone and a shop has the room; see the building from the pavement.
General reference · Public access · Coordinate precision: building · Not an exact scene or camera position; not a visitor route. The shop has moved on. Number 33 is on the same block as the Dom; see it from the street.
St Marks Place between Third and Second Avenues, September 2010. Beyond My Ken · CC BY-SA 4.0 23 St Marks Place, East Village
The Dom
Around 1967, not long after she moved to the Lower East Side, Harry saw the Velvet Underground here, with Andy Warhol running the lights from the balcony.
Number 23 is a row of shops and restaurants on St Marks Place. See it from the street.
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213 Park Avenue South, the building that held Max’s Kansas City, in October 2008. Eden, Janine and Jim · CC BY 2.0 213 Park Avenue South, Union Square
Max’s Kansas City
Before Blondie, Harry waitressed at Max’s Kansas City and watched the back-room theatre crowd at work.
The building stands at 213 Park Avenue South, by Union Square. See it from the pavement.
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CBGB at 315 Bowery in October 2005, a year before the club closed. Adam Di Carlo · CC BY-SA 3.0 315 Bowery
CBGB
The Stilettoes played their first CBGB show on 5 May 1974, then about half a dozen more supporting Television.
315 Bowery. The club has gone and a shop has the room; see the building from the pavement.
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35 St. Marks Place, next door to number 33, in June 2021. Eden, Janine and Jim · CC BY 2.0 33 St Marks Place, East Village
Manic Panic
Tish and Snooky Bellomo sang backup in an early Blondie line-up.
The shop has moved on. Number 33 is on the same block as the Dom; see it from the street.
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Sleep on the Bowery, or on Park Avenue.
A hotel a block from the old CBGB, and the Waldorf, where the band entered the Hall of Fame.
The Bowery Hotel
The Bowery Hotel
The Bowery
At 335 Bowery, a block up the street from the old CBGB at number 315.
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Waldorf Astoria New York
Park Avenue, Midtown
Reopened in July 2025 with 375 rooms. Blondie entered the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame here in 2006.
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Tour the hall, walk the block.
Radio City’s own tour, the Rock Hall in Cleveland, and East Village music walks.
Radio City Music Hall
Radio City Music Hall Tour Experience
Rockefeller Center · About 60 minutes · adults $44–46
An hour through the Grand Foyer and the auditorium to the Great Stage. Plaza Sound, where Blondie made their first records, was upstairs.
Book the tourRock & Roll Hall of Fame
Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
Cleveland, Ohio · Daily 10am–5pm, Thursdays to 9pm, September to June · adults $45
The museum by Lake Erie that inducted Blondie in 2006.
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Christmas at Radio City.
The show Harry was taken to as a child returns in November.
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Take it home
A poster, two memoirs and two records.
An original tour poster from our store, Harry’s and Stein’s memoirs, and the records made at Plaza Sound and the Record Plant.
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Deborah Harry & the Ramones: Escape From New York (1990)
An original 1990 tour poster: Harry on the bill with the Ramones, two acts from the CBGB years. 11 × 17 in, rolled, mint.
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Face It
Debbie Harry
Harry’s memoir, from Hawthorne to the Bowery and beyond.
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Under a Rock
Chris Stein
Stein’s memoir of downtown New York and the band.
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Blondie
Blondie · LP, Private Stock PS 2023, 1976
The debut, made at Plaza Sound above Radio City.
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Parallel Lines
Blondie · LP, Chrysalis CDL 1192, 1978
Six weeks at the Record Plant on West 44th Street.
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Every place and moment behind this page, with sources.
12 of 12 places · 14 of 14 Moments
Hawthorne High School
Hawthorne, New Jersey
Hawthorne
Harry graduates from Hawthorne High School.
The Dom
23 St Marks Place, East Village
The Dom
Harry sees the Velvet Underground on St Marks Place.
Max’s Kansas City
213 Park Avenue South, Union Square
Hey, Blondie
A street catcall becomes a stage name.
CBGB
315 Bowery
First night at CBGB
The Stilettoes play CBGB for the first time.
A drummer
Clem Burke answers a Village Voice advert.
The truck
Harry asks Richard Gottehrer to make her a record.
The Blondie Loft
The Bowery, a block south of CBGB
The loft
Harry, Stein and Valentine live and rehearse a block from CBGB.
Manic Panic
33 St Marks Place, East Village
Manic Panic
Tish and Snooky open their shop on St Marks Place.
Radio City Music Hall
1260 Avenue of the Americas, Rockefeller Center
Plaza Sound
The first single and albums are made above Radio City.
The Record Plant
321 West 44th Street
Parallel Lines
Six weeks with Mike Chapman on West 44th Street.
The registry
Parallel Lines joins the National Recording Registry.
Vivian Beaumont Theater
150 West 65th Street, Lincoln Center
The Amiga
Warhol paints Harry live on a computer.
The Waldorf Astoria
301 Park Avenue, between 49th and 50th Streets
The Hall
Blondie are inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame.
Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
1100 Rock & Roll Boulevard, Cleveland, Ohio
Worthy Farm, Pyramid Stage
Pilton, Somerset, England
The Pyramid
Back on the Pyramid Stage at Glastonbury.