Blondie Reunion: One Way Or Another?

07/27/1998 2:00 PM, Yahoo! Music
Craig Rosen

(7/27/98, 12 p.m. PDT)-- Sometimes rock 'n' roll can be a dirty game. Take the recent Blondie reunion, for example. The new issue of Billboard is trumpeting the formation of Beyond Records, a new label started by Allen Kovac's Left Bank Organization, which is the home to the reformed Blondie, among other acts (myLAUNCH, 6/16). Just as that issue is hitting the newsstands comes word that two members of Blondie not included in the reunion have filed a suit designed to block the reunion.

Bass player Nigel Harrison and rhythm guitarist Frank Infante claim in the lawsuit that Blondie singer Deborah Harry and the three other original members of the band have misappropriated funds "continuously for the past six years," the New York Post reported.

No Exit, the Blondie reunion album featuring Harry, Chris Stein, Clem Burke and Jimmy Destri, is scheduled to be released in early 1999, but now its future is in jeopardy. Blondie broke up the first time in 1982, but according to the Post, all of the members of the band remained financial partners. Infante and Harrison are claiming that because of the ongoing financial agreement,Blondie can't reform without them.

A spokesperson for Beyond Records did not return phone calls by deadline.