When Blondie started recording Parallel Lines in 1978, they were still mostly known as a New York punk and New Wave band. During those sessions, they recorded “Heart of Glass,” a disco-inspired song that became their first No. 1 hit in the U.S. and helped turn them into pop stars.
Debbie Harry and Chris Stein wrote “Heart of Glass” years before it became a sensation. Harry later recalled that it was one of Blondie’s earliest songs, dating back to the mid-1970s.
“‘Heart Of Glass’ was one of the first songs Blondie wrote,” Harry told The Guardian. “But it was years before we recorded it properly. We’d tried it as a ballad, as reggae, but it never quite worked. At that point, it had no title. We just called it ‘The Disco Song’.”
The band had already released several singles, including “In the Flesh,” “Denis” and “Hanging on the Telephone,” but none had really made them major stars in the U.S. That began to change with the release of Parallel Lines in September 1978, which became Blondie’s breakthrough album.
The disco sound was a bit of a left turn for the band. Disco was huge at the time, but it wasn’t exactly what Blondie’s downtown New York crowd was into.
“When we did ‘Heart of Glass’, it wasn’t cool in our social set to play disco,” Harry recalled in her book Making Tracks. “But we did it because we wanted to be uncool. A lot of people we’d hung out and been close friends with on the scene for years said we’d sold out by doing a disco song.”
Several months later, in early 1979, “Heart of Glass” was released as a single and took the band to an even bigger audience. The song became Blondie’s first No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, while also reaching No. 1 in the U.K. and Canada and topping charts in Australia, Germany and several other countries.
Despite the track’s emotional lyrics, Harry said it wasn’t about a specific relationship. “The lyrics weren’t about anyone,” she said. “They were just a plaintive moan about lost love.”
Blondie kept the momentum going with Eat to the Beat in 1979, another successful album that mixed pop, punk, New Wave and disco. The band continued scoring major hits into the early 1980s with songs including “Call Me,” “The Tide Is High” and “Rapture.”
However, by 1982, tensions within the group and health problems involving Stein contributed to Blondie breaking up.
Harry had already begun pursuing a solo career, releasing her debut album, KooKoo, in 1981 while Blondie was still together. She went on to release several more solo albums and scored hits of her own, including “French Kissin’ in the USA.”
Blondie reunited in the late 1990s and got back to making music and touring.
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