Mass-marketed music promoting pretty, clean-living singers to teenagers looking for romance is hardly a new thing.
Following ‘Parallel Lines’ was no small task, but with their ‘Eat To The Beat’ album, Blondie proved they still had plenty of tasty licks up their sleeves.
Curiously, the gap between the group’s UK single and album chart debuts was over 24 months.
By the last months of the 1980s, it had been over four years since ‘Songs From The Big Chair.’ Could Roland Orzabal and Curt Smith still deliver?