“One Way or Another” being performed by punk rock band Blondie on British tv show Top of the Pops,…

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“ One Way or Another ” being performed by punk rock band Blondie on British tv show Top of the Pops, 1978.

Lyrically, the song was inspired by Blondie singer Debbie Harry’s experience with a stalker in the early 1970s, an incident which forced her to move away from New Jersey. Harry wrote the lyrics as if an ‘ex-boyfriend’ was stalking her, to give the song an element of humour.

The song’s music was composed by bassist Nigel Harrison, who introduced the Ventures-influenced track to keyboardist Jimmy Destri.