Blondie’s song “Heart of Glass” has maintained its iconic status for decades, earning a spot among the “Greatest Songs of All ...

Blondie were a popular band in the New York punk underground for a few years before they released "Heart Of Glass," but that song was a career-changer for them. In 1979, they rode the song all the way ...

Until 1978, Blondie was a punk band with a cult following and not much visibility in the U.S. beyond New York’s Lower East Side. Eager for a hit album, Chrysalis, the band’s label, paired Blondie with ...

Excerpted from "Blondie's Parallel Lines" by Kembrew McLeod (Bloomsbury, 2016). Reprinted with permission from Bloomsbury Publishing. Early discos and punk clubs often coexisted in the same downtown ...

Blondie had a lot of hits during their initial burst of fame in the late 1970s and early 1980s, but none of them were as enormous or impactful as “Heart of Glass.” The song shot to Number One all over ...