Legend Credentials:

If anyone in their right mind should ever want to put together the perfect band, Blondie would be the blueprint they should be reaching for. Formed in 1974 by former Playboy bunny girl, Debbie Harry, and her boyfriend Chris Stein, they pretty much invented New York cool. With bells on. In real terms, all they did was take the Warhol/Velvet schtick and pour sex appeal all over it. Simple, effective and quite enough to earn the legend tag.

So effective was the sell - just ask any boy passing through puberty in the late Seventies – it was almost art… in fact it was quite literally art in 1985 when Andy Warhol painted Ms Harry's portrait using a new-fangled Amiga computer.

But there was more to Blondie than the former bunny girl thing. There were songs, boy were there songs. When the charts still mattered and finding yourself in the Top 10 was akin to realising you've scaled Mount Everest on a very cold day dressed only in your underpants and slippers, Blondie's major label debut, 'Denis', got all comfy at Number 2 in the UK charts in February 1978. A year later they topped the very same charts with 'Heart of Glass' and went on to have a further four Numbers Ones (answers, in order, on a postcard please), and not one of them was anything short of an absolute stone cold classic.

The Original Song:

A Number One single on both sides of the Atlantic, 'Call Me' was released in April 1980. At 2 minutes and 12 seconds it is the shortest Number One single of all-time. We have, of course, just made that up, but it sounds quite likely and at stands a chance of being true in that a) it was Number One, and b) it isn't very long.

Classic Clip:

Blondie videos did one thing and one thing only – look, it's Debbie Harry. Here we see her romping, mostly in the sea looking like Marilyn. We can assure you that the pulse still quickens at the sight of Ms Harry in her prime. How on earth did teenage boys cope? Actually, don't answer that.