17 February 2024

Mega power pop icons BLONDIE topped the UK Album Charts for the first time
45 years ago today, on 17 February 1979, with their 3rd LP, masterpiece PARALLEL
LINES. An album stuffed with pure pop pearls. It stayed in the top seat for 4 weeks.

BBC MUSIC wrote: “The most perfect example of Blondie’s grafting of sixties power pop
with new wave, Parallel Lines was one of the biggest hits of 1978/9. Supremely assured, the group was unafraid to go disco, go art, or just play fine, fine pop. After years in the business, Debbie Harry was street-wise, confident, completely in control. Thousands of teenagers were enraptured – boys wanted to be with her, girls wanted to be her. With her musical partner Chris Stein, they created intelligent pop that referenced all of their 60s favourites, while embracing the CBGBs punk scene in New York that the group had grown out of.” Full review here.

TUTV says: With ‘Parallel Lines‘ Blondie reinvented pop music in a drop-dead
gorgeous way. They had the guts, the incredible talent and the Debbie looks.
It made them global stars.

– SUNDAY GIRL –

– HEART OF GLASS –

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