Blondie - Heart Of Glass • TopPop

'Heart Of Glass' is a track from the album 'Parallel Lines', Blondie's third and most succesful album. It was released on September 23, 1978, and reached No. 1 in the United Kingdom in February 1979. The album proved to be the band's commercial breakthrough in the United States where it reached No. 6 in April 1979. The album has sold over 20 million copies worldwide.

Blondie performed a TV Special for TopPop in the TopPop Studios in Hilversum, The Netherlands on 28 August 1978, almost a month before the release of the album!
At the special Debbie Harry and Blondie recorded no less than 7 songs from the album, of which many became big hits, such as: 'Heart Of Glass', 'Hanging On The Telephone' and 'Sunday Girl'.

'Heart Of Glass' was released as the 4th single of the album and reached the #1 spot on the charts of the US (their first chart entry in the US!), UK, Australia, Austria, Canada, Switzerland, New Zealand and Germany. In Hollland it reached #8 in the Top 40. It also reached the Dutch Top 2000 eighteen times in the last 20 years.

Recorded and broadcast date: 28 August 1978

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Broadcast date: 28-08-1978

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