CLEM BURKE
At the turn of 1980, Blondie couldn’t have been bigger. Autoamerican had been released to thumbs up reviews and stellar box office (charting just one position lower than Parallel Lines) and, to top it all, they’d been asked to write the theme for the next James Bond movie. So did it happen that their next album, 1982’s The Hunter, flopped so badly just one year after they lost the 007 gig to a 21-year-old newbie by the name of Sheena Easton?