{"id":8419,"date":"2013-01-01T20:55:04","date_gmt":"2013-01-02T03:55:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/?p=8419"},"modified":"2013-01-01T23:48:11","modified_gmt":"2013-01-02T06:48:11","slug":"norman-seeff-session-with-blondie","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/2013\/01\/norman-seeff-session-with-blondie\/","title":{"rendered":"BLONDIE"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.MMUsicmag.com\/save\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8421\" title=\"Blondie-Nov-2012\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Blondie-Nov-2012.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"660\" height=\"440\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Blondie-Nov-2012.jpg 660w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/Blondie-Nov-2012-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 660px) 100vw, 660px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-8420\" title=\"BLondie-album-art-0-111105-10\" src=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/BLondie-album-art-0-111105-10.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/BLondie-album-art-0-111105-10.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/BLondie-album-art-0-111105-10-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>PHOTOGRAPHER NORMAN SEEFF SHOT THIS SESSION for Blondie\u2019s 1979 <em>Eat to the Beat<\/em> album at New York\u2019s historic Chelsea Hotel, a famous haunt of the Manhattan arts crowd. \u201cThe band seemed to be part of that milieu,\u201d says Seeff. \u201cThey were a quintessential New York group.\u201d\u00a0Singer Deborah Harry arrived late to the shoot and in a funk. \u201cShe walked away while we were shooting without explanation,\u201d recalls Seeff. \u201cWe\u2019re all standing around, like \u2018What do we do next?\u2019\u201d Ultimately the group ended up perched on a balcony outside one of the hotel\u2019s apartments, and more pressing concerns emerged. \u201cThere was the band, someone to hold the light, my assistant and myself\u2014all standing on this tiny balcony,\u201d recalls Seeff. \u201cThe Chelsea is very old, and I was terrified the entire structure was coming down.\u201d The building held, and despite the somewhat rocky beginning the session yielded great images. \u201cDeborah rose to the occasion in the end,\u201d says Seeff, \u201cand we wound up working harmoniously together.\u201d<\/p>\n<div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PHOTOGRAPHER NORMAN SEEFF SHOT THIS SESSION for Blondie\u2019s 1979 Eat to the Beat album at New York\u2019s historic Chelsea Hotel, a famous haunt of the Manhattan arts crowd. \u201cThe band seemed to be part of that milieu,\u201d says Seeff. \u201cThey were a quintessential New York group.\u201d\u00a0Singer Deborah Harry arrived late to the shoot and in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1629,3262],"tags":[5654,5655,10164,10166,5475],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8419"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8419"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8423,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8419\/revisions\/8423"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mmusicmag.com\/m\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}