Heart of Glass

Greatly Appreciated

HEART OF GLASS
 
 
“Heart of Glass”  is a song by American new wave band Blondie, written by singer Debbie Harry and guitarist Chris Stein.  Featured on the band’s third studio album, Parallel Lines (1978), it was released as the album’s third single in January 1979 and topped the charts in several countries, including the United States and the United Kingdom.  In December 2004, Rolling Stone ranked the song number 255 on its list of the 500 greatest songs of all time.  (More from Wikipedia)
 
 
Heart of Glass” might have been Blondie’s #1 hit song, but as the follow-up, “Hanging on the Telephone” reached #5 in the UK and ensured that Blondie would remain a force in rock music well into the 1980’s – in fact, they are still touring and recording good albums to this day.  
 
(April 2010)
 
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As I remember, I already had an article partially written on somebody else when an order from Bomp! Records came in that included a specially priced package of new CD’s by three related power-pop bands:  the Nervesthe Plimsouls and the Breakaways I already knew the Plimsouls’ hit A Million Miles Away”, but just about everything else was a revelation, including the Nerves’ original version of Hanging on the Telephone that became Blondie’s follow-up hit after their monster Heart of Glass”.  I quickly checked Wikipedia and determined that the Breakaways did not have an article, so I dashed off a UARB post on them, hoping to interest others in this amazing music. 
 
(April 2012)
 
Last edited: March 22, 2021