Picture This: When Johnny Marr met Blondie

Music legends Johnny Marr and Debbie Harry and Chris Stein from Blondie are hanging out on a Zoom call together, exclusively for The Big Issue.

Their conversation takes in how it feels to be music icons, the Oscars, band bust-ups, US/UK politics and much more. It’s the ultimate music collaboration that will have you in rapture. The amazing cover artwork is by Jimmy Turrell.

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Also inside this week’s edition

• JJ Chalmers sustained horrific injuries in Afghanistan and reflects on how his life was transformed in a moment in an essential Letter To My Younger Self

• We meet Jim Browning, the man who scams the scammers

• We pay tribute to the 1,286 people who died while homeless in the last year

• There’s an update from frontline aid workers still risking their lives to save others caught in the Ukrainian conflict

• Bertie Carvel talks about channelling Donald Trump for a new comic/tragic play looking ahead to the next US election

• Lawrence, who sells the magazine in Chiswick, tells us what it was like to feature on a recent Big Issue billboard campaign

• And we hear from Bath vendor Ian Duff who introduces us to his new dog Trigger!

Plus much more!