I’ll give you the slip: Blondie

by DRM

Amer­i­can Band­stand meets Deb­bie Harry. She goes utterly cool, a McLuhan-like anti­dote to the hot main­stream­ing of the Bandstand.

The audi­ence? Watch for the hot-body boy­toy in the yel­low form-fitting T in the front row. Just to be sure younger read­ers know, that wasn’t the typ­i­cal look for the launch of New Wave. But it works for Band­stand, and he’s got his abs-flexing moves down.