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    GOLDEN OLDIES

    Jun 26, 2024 2 minutes

    It’s the summer of 1975 and Chris Stein and his girlfriend Debbie Harry are on the Staten Island ferry.

    The guitarist and singer with the little-known local art-pop group Blondie live in a cat-filled, bohemian Manhattan loft space and hang out with the kind of people who carry gold-plated bullwhips and have their

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