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Blondie Chaplin
Musiker - Folk-Rock
http://www.blondiechaplin.com/
http://www.myspace.com/blondiechaplin

Blondie Chaplin was born in Durban, Natal, South Africa, to a musical family. His father was a banjo player considered the best in South Africa, but when young Blondie received a guitar as a gift from a neighbor his passion was realized. His course was set.

His buddies Clemmy and Rudy taught him a few chords and Blondie was on his way. -After that I played after school and pretty much all the time, and then there was this moment that I realized that I had a voice!-. It was that gift that carried him out of South Africa, or to put it another way: He sang his butt out of apartheid. Ginger Baker, the legendary drummer for Cream and Blind Faith and a current resident of South Africa agrees, -You had to be damn good to get out of South Africa on music when he did-.

Blondies first band was called The Kats, then he moved on to The Kittens, where due to the purity and range of his voice, he caught the attention of Durbans hottest band, The Flames. The Flames were the Fataar Brothers and they all agreed that Blondie was what the band was missing.

Blondie joined The Flames and they recorded two number one hits, but due to apartheid it was almost impossible to play for all audiences. They gigged at the Al Fresco Club in Durban, six nights a week, six sets a night, all the while saving money to leave for England. The group realized that they had to leave their homeland if they were going to continue to progress.

So at age sixteen Blondie and his band mates boarded a ship and sailed for London. -once in England we settled in North Harrow because it was cheap to live there,- Chaplin recalls. -We started doing little gigs. We played clubs like the Bag of Nails, Blazes and the Revolution. We did not make much money we just plodded away.-

They got a break when Carl Wilson of The Beach Boys caught one of their sets in a London club. Wilson was so impressed that he brought the band to Los Angeles to record for the Beach Boys label Brother Records. They changed their name to The Flame and produced their self titled debut (and the first ever quadraphonic) album.

Always a hard working band, The Flame settled in Santa Monica and began doing local gigs at the Whisky A GoGo and the Cuckoos Nest in Orange County. The west coast fell in love with The Flame and the clubs were packed for their shows. Due to external pressures the Flame disbanded. Their return to South Africa was a low point in Blondies musical journey but Carl Wilson saved the day by inviting him to join the Beach Boys and sent him a one way ticket back to LA. He remained with the legendary group for three years, playing on and contributing to the song writing on three albums: -Carl and the Passions So Tough-, -Holland- and -Live in Concert-. Blondie sang lead vocals on -Sail on Sailor-.

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