If Jackson Browne represents the “old” of the 70s, Blondie is the “new”. “Parallel Lines” came out the late 70s, but it is part of the beginning of the New Wave of 80s.
It’s old, but it’s good. And as Sheryl Crow covers Browne, Lily Allen remakes Blondie’s “Heart of Glass”, and Rhianna weaves Michael Jackson into “Please Don’t Stop the Music”, I think everything old is new again.
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