One afternoon in 1984, Agnostic Front were preparing to appear at one of CBGB’s now famous Sunday hardcore matinees. As they did so, outside on The Bowery a black Limousine pulled up to the club’s front doors, out of which stepped Debbie Harry. The punk icon – who, as the singer with Blondie, had made her name at this very club – said hello to owner Hilly Kristal on the door, and then enquired as to what was occurring inside. “Oh, you don’t want to go in there,” she was told. Undeterred, Ms. Harry did enter the oversold show, but was back in the Limo in the space of minutes. “I thought, ‘After all the times I’ve seen Blondie, finally she’s gonna see one of my shows,’” says Roger Miret, Agnostic Front’s whisper-voiced singer. “But it wasn’t to be.”Had she done so, Debbie Harry wou...
