Top singles from the past
26 May 2024
SUNDAY GIRL was the fourth single taken from BLONDIE‘s
bliss-pop masterstroke LP Parallel Lines released in 1978.
It topped the UK Singles Chart 45 years ago today, Sunday.
Incredible fact: the record label didn’t bother to release this
solid gold cracker as a single in America. OMG.
Here comes the most iconic Sunday glam girl ever.
BLONDIE: Instagram
Top singles from the past
28 April 2024
45 years ago today, on 28 April 1979, pop icons BLONDIE topped
the US Single Charts with their disco stomper HEART OF GLASS.
The song was written by Debbie Harry and Chris Stein. It was #1
in multiple countries. The song featured on their outstanding
no fillers, all killers LP Parallel Lines (1978).
Here’s the original clip, almost 500 million views on YouTube.
Blondie: Instagram
Top singles from the past
19 April 2024
PRINCE with KISS
No 1 in the US on this day in 1986
GEORGE MICHAEL with DIFFERENT CORNER
No 1 in the UK on this day in 1986
BLONDIE with CALL ME
No. 1 in the US on this day in 1980
14 March 2024
BLONDIE peaked at No.2 on the UK Singles chart with DENIS,
46 years ago today, on 14 March 1978. A cover of the 1963 hit
Denise by American act Randy & The Rainbows.
The song was kept off the No.1 position by Kate Bush‘s ‘Wuthering Heights‘.
Original
Blondie: Bio – Discography
4 March 2024
Imperishable Debbie.
Top singles from the past
1 March 2024
BLONDIE with ATOMIC.
Written by Debbie Harry and Jimmy Destri.
From their 4th LP Eat To The Beat.
Atomic went to the top seat of the UK Singles chart
44 years ago today, on 1 March 1980. Their 3rd #1 in GB.
Blondie: Bio – Discography
EAGLES with BEST OF MY LOVE
Written by Don Henley, Glenn Frey and J.D. Souther.
From their 3rd LP On The Border.
It conquered the top seat of the US Charts 49 years ago today, on 1 March 1975.
Eagles: Bio – Discography
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 –
ALBUM
.
BLONDIE: Website – Instagram – All Albums
28 November 2023
A pin-up skull.
(image: cover of her single ‘French Kissin’)
Top singles from the past
30 October 2023
Immortal pop legends BLONDIE released their UK hit single
HANGING ON THE TELEPHONE 45 years ago today, on
30 October 1978.
It was the opening track of Parallel Lines, their third and best LP to my ears.
The song was actually written by the not so famous songwriter Jack Lee in 1976
for his band The Nerves.
Blondie learned about the song when Gun Club frontman Jeffrey Lee Pierce
had given them a compilation cassette with that The Nerves song on it.
The single peaked at #5 in
the UK and flopped in the US.
Hello, Debbie?
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