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1980s / Biographies and Memoirs

Blondie by Fred Schruers Star, 134pp, 1980 1980 saw the publication of two books about Blondie. One of them, by Lester Bangs, has been much written about; Bangs dashed off his book’s 96 pages in just a few days, with the finished product infamously critical of the band. The other book, by freelance rock journalist Fred Schruers, is less celebrated but was no less hastily produced. Speaking about the biography in a 2001 interview on the […]