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Christopher Stein (born January 5, 1950) is an American musician known as the co-founder and guitarist of the new wave band Blondie. [1] . He is also a producer and performer for the classic soundtrack of the hip hop film Wild Style, and writer of the soundtrack for the film Union City, [2] as well as an accomplished photographer. Music[edit]
Jul 25, 2023 · Blondie frontwoman Debbie Harry has spoken out on the death of her bandmate Chris Stein ‘s daughter Akira. Stein announced the news of his daughter’s death in a Facebook post last week,...
Apr 21, 2023 · During their 1982 tour, Blondie guitarist Chris Stein was struck down by a life-threatening mystery illness. His partner and bandmate, Debbie Harry, put her career to one side to nurse him back to health.
Chris Stein is the co-founder, songwriter and guitarist of the iconic punk band Blondie. The band’s 11th studio album, Pollinator, was named one of Rolling Stone‘s 20 Best Pop Albums of 2017.
Chris Stein is not only an innovative guitarist, groundbreaking songwriter, and the co-founder of Blondie, he is also an acclaimed photographer whose eye for the perfect snapshot has given us some of the most indelible photos of the seminal people and places of New York City’s punk and new wave era.
Blondie is an American rock band formed in New York City in 1974 by singer Debbie Harry and guitarist Chris Stein. [1] . The band was a pioneer in the American new wave genre and scene of the mid-1970s.
Aug 23, 2022 · Harry and guitarist Chris Stein began playing at Hilly Kristal’s infamous Bowery club in the spring of 1974 as the Stilettos (later Stilletto Fads), a cabaret-inspired act founded by Elda ...
Jun 12, 2024 · In his new memoir, Under a Rock, Blondie guitarist Chris Stein looks back on the highs and lows that came with the band’s success. The pioneering punk band formed in New York in 1974 and achieved...
UNDER A ROCK is a plunge into that vanished time period, and into the moments that turned the fresh sound and new look of punk and new wave into a giant artistic and commercial sensation. Stein takes us there in this revelatory, propulsive, distinctive memoir.
Jun 10, 2024 · Chris Stein’s Under a Rock is written in a conversational style and paints a vivid picture of Stein’s life before, during and after his first tenure in Blondie as well as the second chapter of his life that included Blondie’s reunion, his marriage and becoming a father.
