Picture this!
Photographer Martyn Goddard reveals what it was like to shadow Blondie on the cusp of superstardom in 1978
With David Johansen after a show at The Palladium
“I’d done a deal with The Telegraph to go out to New York and photograph Debbie Harry for a Sunday Magazine cover story. Blondie had a gig at The Palladium, which was kind of a homecoming show, having been on tour in Britain and Europe for so long. There were various parties going on before and after the gig, and I just photographed what happened. To be honest, it was like a punk cocktail party! It was the normal rock’n’roll thing, but with spikier chat. Blondie also had a close link to the whole art scene of New York, so we went to another party with Andy Warhol and [the next day] we ended up at Studio 54 with Tony Curtis!”