Times have changed: CBGB has closed, and New York is not the same as in the 1970s. But Blondie, the group that came out of the underground club, turned into international pop stars, split and reformed, is still around. The veteran band that features three original members -- singer Debbie Harry, guitarist Chris Stein and drummer Clem Burke -- will make its Moscow debut at B1 Maximum on Wednesday.

With their "Parallel Lines 30th Anniversary Tour," the post-punk pop band that was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2006 celebrates its breakthrough album that yielded such hits as "Heart of Glass," "One Way or Another," "Hanging on the Telephone" and "Sunday Girl," and has sold more than 20 million copies around the world since its release in 1978.

"First we wanted to remind everybody how old we really are," joked Burke in a telephone interview from New York.

"But we're very proud of that record. It was our third full-length album, and it was a breakthrough record for us in the United States, because prior to that we really had only been an underground band there. We were more commercially successful in Europe primarily, and Australia."

"Parallel Lines" also marked the beginning of the longtime partnership with Mike Chapman, the British producer, whom Burke describes as a "major contributor" to the success of the album.

On the tour, Blondie performs the entire album in sequence for the first part of the show, leaving the second part to other Blondie songs.

Although "Parallel Lines" disappointed punk purists, who dismissed the album as "commercial," Burke said the band did not betray its artistic values.

"We wanted to achieve a commercial success, but we wanted to achieve it in our own way," he said.

"When you look at 'Parallel Lines,' the song 'Heart of Glass' is the song that everyone said, 'Oh, they're doing a dance song, a disco song.' Everyone thought, 'Oh, you made that song to be a hit.'

"We were influenced by the band Kraftwerk, so we were trying to incorporate some electronic music into Blondie. We thought we were being experimental when we did 'Heart of Glass.' We didn't look at 'Heart of Glass' as being a big sellout song. We were surprised when it was a big hit."

The band has never seen itself as punk anyway, Burke said.

"When we played CBGB along with bands like Television and Patti Smith and Talking Heads and Ramones, no one referred to themselves as 'punk,'" he said.

"If we referred to ourselves as anything, we thought we were like beatniks, like bohemians. It was only the media that really put the 'punk rock' label on it later."

Those idealistic, bohemian days of the mid-1970s have gone, and even CBGB closed in 2006 to give way to a boutique.

"The whole area on that part of Lower Manhattan has become very expensive," Burke said.

"Although it would have been great to see CBGB continuing, the original owner Hilly Kristal died last year. So it's more than ironic that Hilly Kristal passed at the same time as the club was under pressure to close from the cost.

"It's the 21st century, it's not the 1970s anymore. Things have changed. That's why I'm happy, happily amazed that we, as Blondie, are able to continue, and that people like our music."

Blondie performs on Wednesday at 9 p.m. at B1 Maximum, located at 11 Ulitsa Ordzhonikidze. Metro Leninsky Prospekt. Tel. 648-6777.