Steve Lamacq

Album Club, Blondie – Parallel Lines

Duration: 1 hour
First broadcast: Wed 26th May 2021, 18:00 on BBC Radio 6 Music

Steve Lamacq plays Blondie’s third studio album from 1978 in full, introduced with an archive interview from 1977 with Debbie Harry and Chris Stein.

The album features some of the band’s seminal hits including Hanging On The Telephone, Heart Of Glass and One Way Or Another. It was produced by Mike Chapman and recorded in just six weeks in the band’s hometown, New York City. The record reached number one in the UK album charts in February 1979 and number six in the US two months later – making it their commercial breakthrough on both sides of the Atlantic as well as many other countries across the world.