{"id":13483,"date":"2026-02-01T16:59:56","date_gmt":"2026-02-01T21:59:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wecb.live\/?p=13483"},"modified":"2026-03-09T12:02:35","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T16:02:35","slug":"profile-of-a-rockstar-turned-author-gary-lachman-on-blondie-to-the-occult","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orgs.emerson.edu\/wecb\/milkcrate\/profile-of-a-rockstar-turned-author-gary-lachman-on-blondie-to-the-occult\/","title":{"rendered":"Profile of a Rockstar-Turned-Author: Gary Lachman on Blondie to the Occult"},"content":{"rendered":"<style>.wp-block-kadence-spacer.kt-block-spacer-13483_626905-a5 .kt-block-spacer{height:30px;}.wp-block-kadence-spacer.kt-block-spacer-13483_626905-a5 .kt-divider{border-top-width:1px;height:1px;border-top-color:var(--global-palette3, #1A202C);width:100%;border-top-style:solid;}<\/style>\n<div class=\"wp-block-kadence-spacer aligncenter kt-block-spacer-13483_626905-a5\"><div class=\"kt-block-spacer kt-block-spacer-halign-center\"><hr class=\"kt-divider\" \/><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n<style>.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading13483_8fe65e-72, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading13483_8fe65e-72[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading13483_8fe65e-72\"]{text-align:center;font-style:normal;}.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading13483_8fe65e-72 mark.kt-highlight, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading13483_8fe65e-72[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading13483_8fe65e-72\"] mark.kt-highlight{font-style:normal;color:#f76a0c;-webkit-box-decoration-break:clone;box-decoration-break:clone;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;}<\/style>\n<h5 class=\"kt-adv-heading13483_8fe65e-72 wp-block-kadence-advancedheading\" data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading13483_8fe65e-72\">Every Sunday, <em>milk crate<\/em> revisits an iconic piece of music history\u2014artist, album, or otherwise\u2014as a part of our weekly crate digging series.<\/h5>\n\n\n<style>.wp-block-kadence-spacer.kt-block-spacer-13483_49ebdb-2a .kt-block-spacer{height:60px;}.wp-block-kadence-spacer.kt-block-spacer-13483_49ebdb-2a .kt-divider{border-top-width:1px;height:1px;border-top-color:var(--global-palette3, #1A202C);width:100%;border-top-style:solid;}<\/style>\n<div class=\"wp-block-kadence-spacer aligncenter kt-block-spacer-13483_49ebdb-2a\"><div class=\"kt-block-spacer kt-block-spacer-halign-center\"><hr class=\"kt-divider\" \/><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"410\" src=\"https:\/\/orgs.emerson.edu\/wecb\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/87\/2026\/02\/Untitled-design-4-1024x410.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-13484\" srcset=\"https:\/\/orgs.emerson.edu\/wecb\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/87\/2026\/02\/Untitled-design-4-1024x410.png 1024w, https:\/\/orgs.emerson.edu\/wecb\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/87\/2026\/02\/Untitled-design-4-300x120.png 300w, https:\/\/orgs.emerson.edu\/wecb\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/87\/2026\/02\/Untitled-design-4-768x307.png 768w, https:\/\/orgs.emerson.edu\/wecb\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/87\/2026\/02\/Untitled-design-4-1536x614.png 1536w, https:\/\/orgs.emerson.edu\/wecb\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/87\/2026\/02\/Untitled-design-4.png 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Design by Sophie Parrish<\/p>\n\n\n<style>.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading13483_dbd176-f3, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading13483_dbd176-f3[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading13483_dbd176-f3\"]{font-style:normal;}.wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading13483_dbd176-f3 mark.kt-highlight, .wp-block-kadence-advancedheading.kt-adv-heading13483_dbd176-f3[data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading13483_dbd176-f3\"] mark.kt-highlight{font-style:normal;color:#f76a0c;-webkit-box-decoration-break:clone;box-decoration-break:clone;padding-top:0px;padding-right:0px;padding-bottom:0px;padding-left:0px;}<\/style>\n<h2 class=\"kt-adv-heading13483_dbd176-f3 wp-block-kadence-advancedheading\" data-kb-block=\"kb-adv-heading13483_dbd176-f3\">By Heather Thorn<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>When Gary \u201cValentine\u201d Lachman departed punk-rock group Blondie in 1977, he had no plan for what lay ahead. Since then, Lachman has formed his band The Know, toured with Iggy Pop, earned a philosophy degree from California State University, managed the famous new-age bookshop Bodhi Tree Bookstore, relocated to London, been inducted into the Rock &amp; Roll Hall of Fame as part of Blondie\u2019s lineup, and written 26 books\u2014about consciousness, his time with Blondie, the occult, and other fascinations.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His memoir, <em>Touched by the Presence: From Blondie&#8217;s Bowery and Rock and Roll to Magic and the Occult,<\/em> was published by Inner Traditions on November 18, 2025. \u201cIt tells the story of how I became a writer,\u201d says Lachman, now 69, on our Zoom call,\u201cfrom playing music in the late 1970s and early \u201980s to what I\u2019m doing now.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A computer screen away, Lachman\u2019s life looks drastically different from his time playing bass guitar with Blondie, when he was known by the stage name Gary Valentine. He\u2019s ditched his retro-sixties look (a style he popularized within Blondie\u2019s lookbook) for gray hair and glasses, ever the writer as the bookshelves behind him show just how dedicated he is to his full-time writing career.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m an obsessive type,\u201d he says. \u201c[When] I\u2019ve become interested in something I want to know as much about it as possible.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lachman\u2019s first obsession was comic books. Born on Christmas Eve in 1955, he grew up during the <a href=\"https:\/\/bookriot.com\/what-is-the-silver-age\/\">Silver Age of Comics<\/a>, a revival of comic book characters from the 1940s. By the time he was five years old, he was hooked.\u00a0\u201cThey were 10 cents for the longest time,\u201d he says. \u201cI went to my grandmother and asked her for 10 cents; it was quite work getting it from her. She even said, \u2018Don\u2019t get one you have already.\u2019 I went to the shop and pulled off <em>The Flash<\/em> and gave the fellow at the counter the dime. He said, \u2018Sorry, they\u2019re 12 cents now.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>Cosmic Boy<\/em> from <em>The Legion Super-Heroes<\/em> series caught Lachman\u2019s eye. \u201cI understood the other ones, but I didn\u2019t understand why he wasn\u2019t called <em>Magnetic Boy<\/em> or <em>Magnetic Lad,<\/em>\u2019\u201d says Lachman now. \u201cWhat was <em>cosmic<\/em>?\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He\u2019s been trying to figure out what that means ever since. In his adolescence, he was captivated by the revival of pulp literature, horror fiction such as H.P. Lovecraft, and film classics including the German silent horror film <em>The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari<\/em> (1920), Bela Lugosi\u2019s <em>Dracula<\/em> (1931), <em>Frankenstein <\/em>(1931), and <em>The Mummy <\/em>(1932).\u00a0\u201cI love very atmospheric old black and white films from the \u201930s and \u201940s,\u201d he says. \u201cI grew up watching all that stuff on television.\u201d\u00a0Humor glints in his eyes as he raises a glass and quotes <em>Dracula<\/em> with a Hungarian accent. \u201c<em>I never drink wine<\/em>,\u201d he says, \u201c<em>you have a very strong will, Van Helsing.<\/em>\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Flash forward to 1975: Lachman wound up in New York City searching for a place to stay. \u201cWhen I was first playing with Blondie, for a while I was living with Debbie Harry and Chris Stein,\u201d he says. \u201cDebbie had a very, very small flat in an area called Little Italy. She let me sleep there until we realized we had to get another place.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As Blondie\u2019s bass guitarist, Lachman\u2019s major contributions included the songs \u201cX-Offender\u201d and \u201c(I\u2019m Always Touched by Your) Presence, Dear.\u201d Alongside Harry, Lachman wrote \u201cX-Offender,\u201d the band\u2019s debut single, released in June 1976, that gained momentum and drew interest from a major record label. Blondie signed onto the British record label Chrysalis Records in 1977. The same year, Lachman wrote \u201c(I\u2019m Always Touched by Your) Presence, Dear,\u201d which became a top-ten U.K. hit in \u201977.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIn the summer of 1975, we ended up getting this loft space a two-minute walk from CBGB,\u201d he says. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/culture\/article\/20240202-cbgb-the-scuzzy-1970s-new-york-club-that-ushered-in-a-new-age-of-rock\">CBGB<\/a>, located at 315 Bowery, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/culture\/article\/20240202-cbgb-the-scuzzy-1970s-new-york-club-that-ushered-in-a-new-age-of-rock\">opened its doors in 1973<\/a> and hosted music acts such as Iggy Pop, Television, the Ramones, Talking Heads, Patti Smith, and of course, Blondie. Though originally founded as a country, bluegrass, and blues venue, CBGB soon became the heart of punk rock and new wave music in New York City.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A quick commute away, Harry, Lachman, and Stein lived at 266 Bowery. \u201cThe fellow who had the lease was this wild, gay biker artist who was into the Hells Angels but also Aleister Crowley, whom I had never heard of before,\u201d Lachman says. \u201c[He] used to do these impromptu tarot readings with the Thoth tarot deck that Crowley uses, [which] at the time was relatively obscure and rare. He would read from Crowley\u2019s novel <em>Diary of a Drug Fiend<\/em> (1922). It\u2019s all about magic.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe book that really did it for me was <em>The Occult<\/em> (1971) by a British writer named Colin Wilson. I was reading it in 1975,\u201d Lachman says. \u201c<em>The Occult<\/em> tackles the evolution of human consciousness with lots of stories and theories about consciousness, altered states, and the paranormal. Reading Colin Wilson\u2019s books, he\u2019s sort of an encyclopedia,\u201d Lachman says. \u201cYou can get what they used to call a \u2018liberal arts education\u2019 if you follow all the leads he starts. People tell me that about my own books; I love writers like that.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cBooks have always had the most impact. Books and music,\u201d he says. \u201cI became quite a fan of his writing and wound up getting to know him. We became friends and I [wrote] a book about him much later on.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em>The Occult<\/em> was more than Lachman\u2019s first introduction to the occult; it was a monumental step towards what would later become his career. \u201cIt was a wonderful time to become interested in this sort of thing in New York in \u201975 and \u201976,\u201d he says.\u00a0Weiser Antiquarian Books, for example, was a very well-known occult bookstore in Cooper Union\u2014and remains the oldest occult bookstore in the United States. Lachman continued reading voraciously and indiscriminately\u2014not only about the occult, but psychology, history, and literature. Mapping the mystical worlds of the occult and existentialist philosophy, Lachman followed wherever books took him. \u201cThat\u2019s how I became interested in it then.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He left Blondie in 1977 and was replaced by Nigel Harrison on bass. Lachman moved to Los Angeles, where he released a single, \u201cThe First One,\u201d backed with \u201cTomorrow Belongs to You\u201d on Beat Records. He then formed a group with Joel Turrisi and Richard d\u2019Andrea called The Know; they were the first band to play <a href=\"https:\/\/www.demophonic.com\/bio\/MadamWong.html\">Madame Wong\u2019s<\/a> (\u9ec3\u5bb6\u5712), the Chinese restaurant-turned-new-wave venue in Los Angeles. Though The Know earned large followings in New York and Los Angeles, they failed to secure an album deal and Lachman later disbanded the group. In 1981, he played guitar with Iggy Pop before deciding to stop playing music.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cEventually, about 1984,\u201d Lachman says, \u201csomeone suggested, \u2018Why don\u2019t you go back to university?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His career choice after rock and roll was philosophy. \u201cWhen my professors learned I had had a previous career in music, they thought I was out of my mind,\u201d he says. \u201cThey said, \u2018We want to do what you do. You don\u2019t want to do what we\u2019re doing.\u2019\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But Lachman was bitten by the philosophy bug. He nurtured his love of wisdom through his undergraduate courses, studying Wittgenstein, Hegel, and Plato. In <em>Touched By the Presence<\/em>, he mentions three professors who impacted his education.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In the 1960s, the occult revival renewed interest in Western esotericism, Eastern religions, witchcraft, astrology, political activism, and New-Age Spiritualism. The Beatles and psychedelic drugs fueled the counterculture movement and mind-body-spirit places sprouted up across the country in the early \u201970s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While earning his philosophy degree, Lachman managed an independent New Age bookshop in Los Angeles called Bodhi Tree Bookstore. Founded in 1970, Bodhi Tree Bookstore specialized in world religions, wisdom traditions, and metaphysics, carrying scholarly works and books about tarot, astrology, Buddhism, Hinduism, Sufism, and various other religions. The bookshop\u2019s namesake is the Bodhi tree, under which Siddh\u0101rtha Gautama sat, meditated, attained enlightenment, and became the Buddha.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cIn the mid-1980s, it was really put on the map,\u201d he says. \u201cAn actress named Shirley MacLaine wrote a book called <em>Out on a Limb<\/em> (1983). She talks about going to this bookshop and how it changed her life.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Suddenly, Lachman saw Bodhi Tree Bookstore\u2019s clientele triple. \u201cThat was around the time I started working there, about 1987,\u201d he says. \u201cI worked there for seven years. The people were friendly. It was socially conscious; the people who worked there got a share of the profits from the shop.\u201d New Age music also gained popularity during this time, which Lachman found absolutely insufferable. \u201cI wanted to put the Ramones on,\u201d he says, a nod to his CBGB start.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After receiving his undergraduate degree, Lachman began an English program at the University of Southern California. Putting aside his interest in esoterism, Lachman learned about Foucault, Derrida, and deconstruction. \u201cI was a fish out of water,\u201d he says. \u201cI\u2019m an old humanist romantic. This isn\u2019t how I see the world.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In his last days at Bodhi Tree Bookstore, they started a catalog and asked Lachman to review books. He wrote about cultural historian Richard Tarnas\u2019s <em>The Passion of the Western Mind <\/em>(1991), a spiritual-friendly book about the history of the Western Intellectual Tradition. Tarnas liked Lachman\u2019s review so much that he visited Bodhi Tree Bookstore and invited Lachman to write for a journal he was editing.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lachman began writing book reviews and articles for other magazines and journals, too, including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gnosismagazine.com\/\"><em>Gnosis<\/em><\/a>. \u201c[But] I didn\u2018t have any ideas for a book,\u201d he says.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Destiny came to him in the form of a generous royalty check for \u201c(I\u2019m Always Touched by Your) Presence, Dear,\u201d re-released on Blondie\u2019s successful greatest hits collection. \u201cI was surprised,\u201d he says. \u201cI hadn\u2019t seen anything like that for a while.\u201d The next months saw Lachman\u2019s departure from the English program as he left academia and lived off the Blondie royalty check. \u201cI tried to write a novel,\u201d he says. Though perhaps an unsuccessful attempt, it wasn\u2019t a lost cause. \u201cI learned how to write.\u201d&nbsp; This is the story of his memoir <em>Touched by the Presence<\/em>: \u201cMy life in between that and doing what I\u2019m doing now,\u201d Lachman says. While his royalty check paid the bills, there was still something missing. His wife, whom he met while working at Bodhi Tree Bookstore, suggested he get a job. \u201cI started to apply for jobs I knew I wouldn\u2019t get,\u201d he says, \u201cthat I might <em>almost<\/em> get. The L.A. Music Center in downtown L.A. put an ad in <em>The Los Angeles Times<\/em>. I sent them some samples of my writing.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI outsmarted myself,\u201d Lachman says with a cheeky smile. \u201cI got the job I didn\u2019t want to get.\u201d At the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), Lachman worked as a science writer alongside cutting-edge scientists in the molecular biology, astronomy, and marine science departments. He wrote grant proposals before putting together a newsletter for the department alumni. \u201cI remember thinking, \u2018Maybe this is it,\u2019\u201d says Lachman. \u201c\u2018Maybe I\u2019m not going to be the kind of writer I would like to be. I\u2019ve already done things most people haven\u2019t, played in all these rock bands, had my own band for a while. Shouldn\u2019t I be happy?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAnd then it just came to me,\u201d he says, \u201cno matter what I would do, I would never be happy doing this\u2014no matter how well paid it was.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAt that point, everything fell apart,\u201d Lachman says. His marriage had ended and he lost his job\u2014he knew something had to change. Newly 40 years old, Lachman got on a plane at Los Angeles International Airport on January 1, 1996, and landed in London with only a six-month visa. Leaving behind his shared life in a Los Angeles gated community, he now rented a one-room in shared housing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThis can\u2019t be my life,\u201d says Lachman of his existential crisis during this time. His flat was rendered uninhabitable by noisy neighbors, but the British Library provided an oasis where he researched and wrote many of his books.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cPeople often ask me, \u2018How do you go from playing in a rock band to what you do now?\u2019\u201d Lachman says. \u201cThis book is answering that question.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cGary is one of the foremost esoteric historians around,\u201d says Jeffrey Mishlove, 79, on our Zoom call. \u201cHis books speak for themselves. They\u2019re well-written; they\u2019re understandable. He delves into complex historical and philosophical [movements].\u201d Mishlove is the founder of the YouTube channel <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/c\/NewThinkingAllowed\"><em>New Thinking Allowed<\/em><\/a> and has interviewed Lachman 17 times. \u201cHe made quite an amazing transition from being a rock and roll musician,\u201d Mishlove says, \u201ceven at one time virtually homeless on the streets of Manhattan and couch surfing. He\u2019s clearly one of the favorite guests on our channel.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201c[Lachman] was part of the punk rock culture,\u201d Mishlove says. \u201cHe was exposed to what you might call the dark side of mysticism. \u201cOut of that emerged a scholar willing to look squarely at the dark side. He was able to envision what you might call the higher self or truth. He didn\u2019t get lost in the rabbit hole of darkness.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now, Lachman is opening up about his journey\u2014from Blondie and the Bowery to spirituality and the occult\u2014in <em>Touched By the Presence<\/em>.&nbsp; \u201cI had no plan for it,\u201d he says. \u201cI just sat down and started writing. For a long time, I just called it <em>Notes<\/em>. It became the book.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cHere, I\u2019m writing about myself\u2014usually, I\u2019m writing about other people, and usually they\u2019re dead,\u201d he says. Lachman has written over 26 books about notable figures including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Rudolf-Steiner-Introduction-Life-Work\/dp\/1585425435\/ref=sr_1_1?crid=16KNFTW79ABE0&amp;keywords=Gary+Lachman+Rudolf+Steiner&amp;qid=1660922350&amp;s=books&amp;sprefix=gary+lachman+rudolf+steiner%2Cstripbooks-intl-ship%2C216&amp;sr=1-1\">Rudolf Steiner<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Search-P-D-Ouspensky-Gurdjieff\/dp\/0835608484\/ref=sr_1_1?crid=Z7032CCGNDU6&amp;keywords=Gary+Lachman+In+Search+of+P.D.+Ouspensky&amp;qid=1660922650&amp;s=books&amp;sprefix=gary+lachman+in+search+of+p.d.+ouspensky%2Cstripbooks-intl-ship%2C176&amp;sr=1-1\">P. D. Ouspensky<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Swedenborg-Introduction-His-Life-Ideas\/dp\/1585429384\/ref=sr_1_1?crid=5Z70X2QXJTTN&amp;keywords=Gary+Lachman+Swedenborg&amp;qid=1660921488&amp;s=books&amp;sprefix=gary+lachman+swedenborg%2Cstripbooks-intl-ship%2C145&amp;sr=1-1\">Emanuel Swedenborg<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Beyond-Robot-Life-Colin-Wilson\/dp\/0399173080\/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1DOY04329VZRK&amp;keywords=Gary+Lachman+Beyond+the+Robot&amp;qid=1660920071&amp;s=books&amp;sprefix=gary+lachman+beyond+the+robot%2Cstripbooks-intl-ship%2C244&amp;sr=1-1\">Colin Wilson<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Madame-Blavatsky-Mother-Modern-Spirituality\/dp\/1585428639\/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3BKF97BZIXX0V&amp;keywords=Gary+Lachman+Madame+Blavatsky&amp;qid=1660921178&amp;s=books&amp;sprefix=gary+lachman+madame+blavatsky%2Cstripbooks-intl-ship%2C134&amp;sr=1-1\">Madame Blavatsky<\/a>, as well as Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton, Virginia Woolf, and more in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Dedalus-Book-Literary-Suicides-Letters\/dp\/1903517664\/ref=sr_1_1?crid=1YY9YMJ9ED2BH&amp;keywords=Gary+Lachman+Dead+Letters&amp;qid=1660922011&amp;s=books&amp;sprefix=gary+lachman+dead+letters%2Cstripbooks-intl-ship%2C169&amp;sr=1-1\"><em>The Dedalus Book of Literary<\/em> <em>Suicides<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe actual writing [of <em>Touched By the Presence<\/em>] began in January 2023, the 27th anniversary of me arriving here,\u201d he says. \u201cI finished it the following January. There\u2019s a circularity of it\u2014the end is my beginning.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lachman finds that necessity is the mother of production. \u201cThis is the only way I\u2019ve learned to make a living [after] more than 10 years wanting to write and not being able to,\u201d he says, his enthusiasm evident as he lights up just talking about writing. \u201cI made myself into the writer I am today. I\u2019m doing what I want to do.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Gary \u201cValentine\u201d Lachman departed punk-rock group Blondie in 1977, he had no plan for what lay ahead. 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