Erasure's Andy Bell Selects 13 Favourite Records | Page 2 of 14 | The Quietus

Baker's Dozen

Artists discuss the 13 records that shaped their lives

1. BlondiePlastic Letters

Already their second studio album, they had scored hit singles with ‘Denis Denis’ (I first heard that on my Grandad’s window cleaning round) and the sublime ‘I’m Always Touched By Your (Presence Dear)’, still one of my favourites to this very day.

As a whole album, it sounds like a spy movie soundtrack with ‘Contact In Red Square’ and ‘Kidnapper’. Highlights for me include ‘I’m On E’ and ‘Love At The Pier’. The very definition of late 70s New York pop art and punk glamour; Deborah Harry, for me, will remain forever the Queen of New Wave.

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