Heart of Glass (song)
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| Single by Blondie | |||||||||||||
| from the album Parallel Lines | |||||||||||||
| Released | January 1979 | ||||||||||||
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| Recorded | June 1978, Record Plant, New York City | ||||||||||||
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3:22 (7-inch version) 5:50 (12-inch version) |
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| Label | Chrysalis | ||||||||||||
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| Producer(s) | Mike Chapman | ||||||||||||
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| Single by Gisele and Bob Sinclar | |||||||||||
| Released | April 29, 2014 | ||||||||||
| Format | Digital download | ||||||||||
| Length | 3:04 | ||||||||||
| Label | Ultra | ||||||||||
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| Producer(s) | Bob Sinclar | ||||||||||
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"Heart of Glass" is a song by the 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 reached number one on 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. It was ranked at number 259 when the list was updated in April 2010.Slant Magazine placed it at number 42 on their list of the greatest dance songs of all time and Pitchfork named it the 18th best song of the 1970s.
Currently, "Heart of Glass" is ranked at number 56 in the UK's official list of biggest selling singles of all-time with sales of 1.3 million copies.
French music producer and DJ Bob Sinclar and Brazilian supermodel Gisele Bündchen recorded a cover version of "Heart of Glass" in 2014 that became an international European hit. The song was recorded for H&M clothing stores' 2014 advertising campaign. Proceeds from download sales were donated to UNICEF.
Debbie Harry and Chris Stein wrote an early version of "Heart of Glass", called "Once I Had a Love", in 1974–75. This earlier version was initially recorded as a demo in 1975. The song had a slower, funkier sound with a basic disco beat. For this reason the band referred to it as "The Disco Song". The song was re-recorded in a second demo with the same title in 1978, when the song was made a bit more pop-oriented. Harry said that "'Heart of Glass' was one of the first songs Blondie wrote, but it was years before we recorded it properly. We'd tried it as a ballad, as reggae, but it never quite worked", and that "the lyrics weren't about anyone. They were just a plaintive moan about lost love." It was only when the band met with producer Mike Chapman to start work on Parallel Lines that Harry recalled Chapman "asked us to play all the songs we had. At the end, he said: 'Have you got anything else?' We sheepishly said: 'Well, there is this old one.' He liked it – he thought it was fascinating and started to pull it into focus."
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