Lachman quit after Blondie’s debut album and was replaced by another of Burke’s friends, Frank Infante. They reunited in 1999 and have recorded another five albums to date, with a sixth, High Noon, due this year. Blondie played a show every week while they lived on the breadline in a nearby loft space with bullet holes in the windows and homeless bums dying outside in the snow. Plastic Letters (Chrysalis, 1978) Valentine quit before the recording of this second album, so Stein played both bass and guitar on their major-label debut. Opener Doom Or Destiny sets out the album’s stall with co-vocalist Joan Jett among an array of guest performers and songwriters.