Produced by Mike Chapman
Released as the third single from the band's Platinum-plus 1979 album Eat to the Beat
B Side Die young stay pretty
Released 1980 Chrysalis
The song hit number 1 in the UK - where it held for three weeks in March 1980
The first record I ever bought with my own money was Atomic by Blondie. I will have been 11 or 12, probably 11 as my birthday is the end of the year. 1980. It was probably bought from either the local Woolworths or G.T News, I can't remember. I loved Blondie. She was blonde and beautiful and dangerously on the edge. Me, I was short and chubby with uncontrollable frizzy brown hair. I remember buying a Blondie comb and case from a gift shop on a family holiday to Scarborough. Everyone at school was so jealous of my bit of cheap plastic!
I must have played that record so many times that it's surprising that it didn't wear out. I loved the B side too, Die Young Stay Pretty. It had a bit of a reggae beat to it and was quite chilled.
The cover art had Debbie Harry in a sexy blue dress, looking whistfully to the side, all blonde and glamorous. The atomic cloud behind her almost looks like golden angel wings!
I still like Blondie. 33 years on, I am still chubby but a lot less frizzy. And definately not blonde.
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