Parallel Lines

Parallel Lines
The band members of Blondie standing behind a black and white wall. Debbie Harry (standing center right, with her clenched hands on her hips) is seen wearing a white dress while the rest of the band wears business suits with a black tie.
Studio album by
ReleasedSeptember 8, 1978
RecordedJune–July 1978
StudioRecord Plant (New York City)
Genre
Length39:06
LabelChrysalis
ProducerMike Chapman
Blondie chronology
Plastic Letters
(1977)
Parallel Lines
(1978)
Eat to the Beat
(1979)
Singles from Parallel Lines
  1. "Picture This"
    Released: August 1978
  2. "I'm Gonna Love You Too"
    Released: September 1978
  3. "Hanging on the Telephone"
    Released: November 1978[1]
  4. "Heart of Glass"
    Released: January 1979
  5. "Sunday Girl"
    Released: May 1979 (UK)
  6. "One Way or Another"
    Released: May 1979 (US)

Parallel Lines is the third studio album by American rock band Blondie, released on September 8, 1978,[2] by Chrysalis Records. An instant critical and commercial success, the album reached No. 1 on the UK Albums Chart in February 1979 and proved to be the band's commercial breakthrough in the United States, where it reached No. 6 on the Billboard 200 in April 1979. In Billboard magazine, Parallel Lines was listed at No. 9 in its top pop albums year-end chart of 1979. The album spawned several successful singles, notably the international hit "Heart of Glass".

  1. ^ Strong, Martin Charles (1995). The Great Rock Discography. Canongate Press. p. 71. ISBN 9780862415419.
  2. ^ "Music Week" (PDF). p. 50.

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