"Lenny" (its demo titled "Walking on Glass") is a song by British synthpop group The Buggles from their second and final album Adventures in Modern Recording. It was released as the album's third single in September 1982 and was written and produced by both Trevor Horn and Geoff Downes. The song became popular in the Netherlands, charting on both the Mega Single Top 100 and Dutch Top 40, and has been positively received by critics.

"Lenny" is a synthpop song that is 3 minutes and 14 seconds long, and played at a tempo of 94 beats per minute. The song has a progressive rock-influenced sound, with power chords and fluttering synthesizers played in the song. With limited involvement by Geoff Downes, Adventures in Modern Recording featured much more involvement from Horn. However, Downes contributed to four songs on the album; "Beatnik", "Vermillion Sands", "I Am a Camera" and "Lenny".

An original demo recording of the song was originally titled "Walking on Glass". This demo version was included on the February 2010 Salvo/ZTT re-issue of Adventures in Modern Recording. The demo was recorded between the winter of 1980 and the spring of 1981 and for the re-issue, it was sourced from the Zang Tuum Tumb tape vault. The demo was remastered from sole-remaining sources, TCH personal cassettes dated 20 January 1981.

The single was only released in France and the Netherlands. It was issued on 7" vinyl via Carrere, who also distributed the single. The single included the B-side "Blue Nylon" which was written by John Sinclair, Simon Darlow and Horn, whilst being produced by Sinclair and Horn. The song was originally released as the B-side to the 1982 single Adventures in Modern Recording before it was B-side to "Lenny". It would later appear as a bonus track on the 1997 Japanese re-issue of the Adventures in Modern Recording album, and the February 2010 Salvo/ZZT re-issue of the album in the UK. The co-writer Sinclair was the producer of most tracks on the album, alongside Horn, whilst Darlow contributed guitar and keyboards to five of the album tracks, and two b-sides. The single featured artwork, using the same glasses seen on the album cover of Adventures in Modern Recording, however with a different background.

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