I listened to Blondie in High School. I graduated in 1981 and I am 60 and Debbie Harry is 78 and will turn 79 July 1st. Time just flies by. It's really faster than you can imagine. You think this is so retro but it seems like yesterday to me. The 70's and 80's were an amazing time to grow up and the music was so varied and creative. Enjoyed your video! 🙂
They did really interesting production on this song. You are hearing 2-3 layers of her voice here. All the voices you hear are Debbie's. The producer, Mike Chapman, was a genius.
Kids have zero historic reference and to them 50 might as well be 80. A couple years ago when my daughters was about 17 we were watching something about the Korean War and I tried to get her to watch and she said “I don’t have to be interested in things that happened in your time”! wtf?????? I grew up in the 80s. Not the 50s. To her there was no difference! Same thing here with this kid thinking Debby’s 50 and they had no idea this was a 70’s hit!!!! 😮😊 😂
Acting "weird" is a subtle fuck you to the establishment, you're supposed to go out there and do what is safe and expected. Blondie and other bands from the CBGB scene were like, nah, fuck you, how about this.
It’s crazy cause up until the 90s, being famous and conforming was uncool. Look at any interview with stars from the 80s or 90s. Everyone is acting nonchalant or like they don’t want to be there. Like pulling teeth to get a straight answer. Everything changed with social media. People from the 90s would be disgusted with us. 😂
@@kleeklee4572I think you have it backwards. The most popular music in the '70s was disco and arena rock. Punk was pretty niche and not considered cool at all. In the '80s glam rock (hair metal) was all the rage. So was new wave and synth pop, but it was all very commercial and conformist. It wasn't until the '90s with so-called "grunge" and alternative that it became cool to be nonconformist. Stripped down music, non-virtuoso playing, punk, metal and classic rock influences, and a PNW thrift store aesthetic, which was basically a big FU to glam rock and new wave and new romantic stuff which was also pretty glam. But like any movement, once it catches on and becomes cool, it becomes conformist and commercial. Even before it becomes cool it's still conformist within that group. The punks all conformed to the punk culture and aesthetic, the goths to the goth culture and aesthetic, the grunge people to the grunge culture and aesthetic. Same as the metalheads, the disco people, etc. It's human nature, as social animals, to be part of a "tribe" of some kind and conform to the norms of that tribe.
You could tell he was definitely crushing big on Debbie because every time they showed a close-up of her with a smile he immediately lit up with a smile himself. Ain’t nothing wrong with that. I’ve watched this video a hundred times and she makes me smile every time she smiles too.
I was about 13 and was taking private violin lessons; the instructor, a student of the great Itzak Pearlman, was having me do classical exercises. Being the age I was, I asked if we could do some modern music; he let me pick a song, and I went to the music store and bought the sheet music for “ Heart Of Glass”; we spent a few minutes each lesson on it ❤
In the UK Blondie also had a hit with Good Boys in 2003 (peaked at number 12), don't think it was a hit anywhere else. Famous for having Brian May of Queen added to the lyrics credits since she pinched some lyrics from We Will Rock You and Queen threatened to sue. They've had a few singles since then but no hits.
Yeah, I was thinking if it was the 80's it was the very beginning because I remember the apartment I was living in when I first heard it, and I moved away in '81.
Shes been involved in other projects as well ( jazz passengers) i saw ger in 81. And 90s and 2 summer ago & once w jazz passengers. Met her that time. Also she was in my older cousins wedding . Dated a second cousin
Debbie was a brunette who went blonde with the band. All of the guys of my generation that didn't have a crush on her went on to careers in floral arrangement, hair dressing or Broadway dancers.
They were making fun of Disco, it was known as the Disco song. Radio stations wouldn't play any thing other than Disco so they recorded the song as a joke, and it became a hit. They're later songs confused people that thought they were a Disco band
I have a neighbor who was stationed in Europe with the army. There was a Blondie concert by the base and one of the guys claimed he had gone to school with Debbie. They were ragging on him so finally he got up and went to the hallway going back stage and asked one of the people there to tell Debbie that he was there with four friends. When the guy finally did go back they were invited backstage and had a nice time eating and the troops drank some beer. The band was in the area for a week and they got to hang with them two more times. He says that it’s one of the greatest good memories he has of his time in the military.
Clem Burke is one of the truly great rock drummers - exceptional on "Atomic" too. Someone once told him to angle his toms towards him to make them easier to play and he said "Nah, they look cooler this way" and stuck with it
He was and is still phenomenal! He still plays drums for Debbie Harry when she does a tour. BTW back then, he kept time to the drum machine that you hear in the beginning, throughout the song. Not an easy task, any drummer knows this.
Blondie were hugely influential, blending aspects of disco, pop, rock, and even some early rap. And Deborah Harry... Hubba hubba For my money there best song is Dreaming. You should check it out
Nope. She is from NJ and lives in my town, Middletown, actually. The expensive side. As does our awful Governor. As did Bon Jovi, Jon Stewart, Geraldo (had a newspaper in the neighboring town of Red Bank) and Maury Povich.
Blondie was the first Punk band to chart in the US with Heart of Glass on their 3rd album 'Parallel Lines', and lead singer Debbie harry was the first Rock Star Pin-Up with posters sold worldwide as their hits went number 1 worldwide.
Music videos started around 1958 with The Big Bopper (J T Richardson). He made three on the same day and called them ‘music videos’. Chantilly Lace was one of the three… th-cam.com/video/rKBZC0awDNU/w-d-xo.htmlsi=9Q2pvP08nC2K57gv
I absolutely love Blondie! I remember hearing her in 1978 when I was school... And I thought wow what a cool song... I love all her songs Back in the late '70s and '80s. That was the style of music when you would basically stand and belt out this beautiful music but barely move your head or body... It was just a thing people did....it was like a "European" style and edgy...best way to describe it. I was considered her somewhere between pop, punk and disco
Heart of glass is 70s! 1978 HUGE hit along with Rapture in 1980. ❤ That's her boyfriend on the guitar. Yep, they were so punk rock, always different! Love your reactions! ❤
My sister and I had 3 records we would play over and over; Blondie, Heart and Pat Benetar. Great memories. I still listen to them all today. This wasn't the 80's, it was the 70's.
This song is from 1978, released as a single in 1979 and became a massive hit. Debbie was actually in her early 30's, 33 to be precise. Today she is 78. Blondie is an incredible band, and they have a very impressive list of hits and a big back catalogue. They are still making music today.
I was 17 when this song came out in 1979 and I had a MAD crush on Debbie as every guy did! They were an American band that came out of the New York City underground punk scene. They were able to perfectly blend punk, rock and disco to create “their” sound.
The 80's was the most innovative era for music, post punk, new wave, new romantics, perfect pop, 2 tone, the birth of house, electronic and everything else. Being a teen in the 80's... nothing beats it.
There's a cracking documentary out there about the creation of this album, the sound they made had never been done before and that's because it wasn't technically possible, they found some genius who invented the electronic gizmos to make it possible
You gotta do "One Way or Another" "Atomic" "Rapture" "Union City Blues" "The Tide Is High" "Call Me"... So many great Blindie songs! Don't stop here boys
Debbie Harry is an ICON!! The fact she was already in her early / mid thirties during Blondie's most successful era is insane! Talk about a late bloomer. She have both a softness and a grit in her voice and tone... plus, she was a stunner looking MUCH younger than she really was. She still sings live on stage to this day, at 79! INSANE performer!
Gotta love a bit of Blondie, Atomic is my fave, check it out. Even as a teenager in the 90s I had the Wedding Dress poster of Debbie on my bedroom wall.
It’s the 80’s man! Flock of Seagulls, Tears for Fears, The Vapors, Kajagoogoo,Spandau Ballet..it goes on and on..New Wave..I love it when my son plays The Cure, Siouxsie and the Banchees, Yazz..Bauhaus..in the goth moment..lol..the best time, the best music.
My fav song. I was 8 the year it came out. Most leading ladies of bands in the 90s britpop era all credited and did their version of Debbies cool. She gave the dress she wore in this video to sharleen spiteri lead singer of scottish band Texas. Blondie played glastonbury main stage last summer. They had massive success in UK
I love that you can't hear someone sing falsetto without giggling. Have you really never heard falsetto before? I guess it is sort of rare in rock/pop music, more commonly heard in chorale music, but still......it's not THAT weird! LOL As far as their awkwardness, that was part of their charm. Debbie has said she wanted her movement to be out of synch with the music, she wanted to move how she felt instead of a choreographed (what she called "cheerleader") style of moving in sync with the music. She's a bit eccentric, as befits her ex-beatnik beginnings. She may look like the prom queen, but she acts more like the outsiders who skipped school! LOL Thanks for covering this. Do more Blondie! Do some edgy ones like Rip Her To Shreds, X Offender, One Way Or Another, etc. You won't regret!
I was thinking the same thing. It’s fascinating that this sounds weird to a young person today. It goes to show how much popular music has changed from then to now.
Call Me is my favourite Blondie song. It's still my favourite song for a speed skate at the rink. But weirdly, I used to use the intro to Dreaming as my ringtone in the 90s. It has epic, mad drumming for a pop song.
At this point at the end of the 70's she was considered more alternative rock/punk with a bit of disco thrown in. When MTV started in '81 these musicians all of a sudden had the studios telling them to make videos to songs they'd already released as well as new songs. For the most part they had no idea what they were doing at first so a lot of the videos look kind of stiff or weird. 😂
The "kind of stiff" of course is done on purpose. Blondie was actually only popular in Australia first, from 1976, when they released "In the Flesh". That was because Australia had a music video show from 1974, and Blondie were making music videos.
Saw her at a free concert in FLORIDA 1978 before the parallel lines dropped was thought she was old then we were 17 and she was 30+. They were great to listen to live
I'm in my late 50s now, and Debbie Harry is older than my mum. She's one of my music heroes. Watching the lead actress dance in the Netflix series, Wednesday, reminded me of Debbie Harry - something about the deliberate awkward movements being both elegant and unsettling at the same time.
This song dropped in early 1979. Deborah Harry (Blondie) was born Angela Trimble in 1945 and was 34 when this song dropped. She is now 78 years old as of 2024. And still looks great.
This song was made in 1978, before MTV and other venues for videos to be seen by the general public. (Studio 54 was BIG in the 70s. Despite the sign at the start, it was not filmed there.) The song was trimmed, censored (for the word ass) and rereleased in '79 to get more air play. This video was a promo video were they are lip syncing over the recording as was often done at that time. The band acts 'bored' because they hated doing that. The video was 'resurrected' when MTV started. When MTV took off in 1981, a lot of bands/promoters dug up promo videos for songs released before then.
Based around the Roland CR78 drum machine on Rock 1 preset,this song came out in 78 but flopped but was re released the following year and got to number 1 over here in the UK
She was a waitress at the famous Maxx's Kansas City ..in NYC .Back in the early 70's my hangout. Everyone was there, artists of all kind coming after concerts! Check out documentaries on the place!
Studio 54 peaked in the late 70's and Blondie were the shit mixing Punk, New wave and disco into magic. Those plodding disco beats interlaced with the post punk guitar riffs and Debbie's amazing vocals, what a time.
Deborah Ann Harry (born Angela Trimble; July 1, 1945) is an American singer, songwriter and actress, best known as the lead vocalist of the band Blondie. Four of her songs with the band reached No. 1 on the US charts between 1979 and 1981. She’s 78
She was 34 when this song came out, and she's close to 80 years old now. And she's STILL making music. This song reached #1 in 1978. It's cool you guys have a crush on her because many, many men back then were crushing on her en masse.
In the 90s a company made a 1/6th scale model of her as Judge Anderson from the Judge Dredd comics and first movie. It was pulled from shelves because her headlights showed through the costume.
They are all from NYC and she is from the punk/new wave scene - Blondie was good friends with Talking Heads, The Ramones and the rest of the CBGB crowd. One of their best deep cuts is 11:59 (the song).
DAAANNNGG... this song was still playing when I was a teenager - but it CAME OUT the year I was born! I had to look it up, but that makes alot of sense, because this was back when there was still the whole disco & rock musical divide (late 70's); her song started the whole (then new) disco-rock genre... man, I never knew till now that Blondie was the start of such cultural norms for the 80's! So she was actually 33 years old (and looking GOOD) when this song came out (hmmm, so you'd be cougar hunting, then 😼😂) - and is currently 78 years old.
I always like to hear from people who weren't fans give their take, because a fan has a built-in bias. So, thank you guys so much for taking the time to listen. One of the members in this line-up of Blondie is British, the bass player with the curly hair, Nigel. The opening sound before the rest of the music kicks in is made by a drum machine and what they did was make the machine play two of its drum sounds at the same time, creating a unique sound (Missy Elliott used slowed version on "Work It"). I like that Andiroo points out how timeless it sounds. Even when it was getting airplay in '78/'79, it sounded futuristic. And her voice was layered. Essentially, she's singing along to herself. Blondie started out as Punk band and so they weren't into making flashy videos. This one was 3 years before Mtv. Thanks again! I truly appreciate your take.
"Heart of Glass" is a song by the American new wave band Blondie, written by singer Debbie Harry and guitarist Chris Stein. It was featured on the band's third studio album, Parallel Lines (1978), and 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.
The band is excellent. Chris Stein is the guy holding the mirror ball and is Debbie's hubby on guitar, Jimmy Destri on keyboards, Clem Burke on drums, Nigel Harrison on bass and Frank Infante on guitar. Dreaming is a great track and showcases their drummer's skill. Clem is amazing.
Debbie Harry is 78 years old now and still rockin. Look for a recent youTube on her. Music was exciting and amazing especially through the 70's. Nobody sounded like anybody else and everything was cutting edge. I never thought it would end. The Golden Age of Rock in all it's genre's.
I think Blondie had their break through in Europe with that song. That pushing almost rocking rythm and her airy singing are a perfect mixture for dancing, almost hypnotizing.
Debbie, Harry is currently 79 years old and she still looks fabulous! Blondie started out as a punk band, often seen performing at CBGBs in New York City before they hit the "big time"
Debbie was in her 30's when this was released in 79. The awkwarkness in the video is kind of theme in many of Blondie's videos, they appear to be trying to move, don't care/are too cool and it always appears slightly weird. You should react to Atomic, The Hardest Part, Denis, X-Offender, Picture This - there is so much Blondie to discover.
Their "awkwardness" was a response to the music industry's fickleness. In one magazine article, they might criticize her for being "too sexy" and "moving around too much", and then if she held still and didn't move around or act at all sensual, the next article would criticize them for being "boring" and "just standing there". In the long run, they did what was smart and just did it whatever way they wanted including quirky performances like this. It's sheer determination on their part not to get sidetracked by corporate BS.
I think it is good to hear just little bits of music. It is an introduction. A million years ago when I was a kid , we were introduced to classical through the cartoons.
I listened to Blondie in High School. I graduated in 1981 and I am 60 and Debbie Harry is 78 and will turn 79 July 1st. Time just flies by. It's really faster than you can imagine. You think this is so retro but it seems like yesterday to me. The 70's and 80's were an amazing time to grow up and the music was so varied and creative. Enjoyed your video! 🙂
No auto tune or voice modulation in 1978....she is very unique and a one of a kind classic.
They did really interesting production on this song. You are hearing 2-3 layers of her voice here. All the voices you hear are Debbie's. The producer, Mike Chapman, was a genius.
There was voice modulation, just nothing that would be considered for a vocal performance. For reference, listen to Mr. Blue Sky by ELO.
As far as her age goes it's hilarious that the younger generation cannot do simple math❗😆😅😂🤣
She was not a cookie cutter type of singer,she was just being her,she's beautiful and has a great voice
9:51 She'll be 80 next year.
She’s still beautiful even today.
My heart stopped when he said "what is she, in her 50's?" I'm 50 and he thought was was OLD. 🙃😭😅
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He won't when he gets there
She’ll be 79 in July.
@@jss27560 And still out there rocking.
She was 33 when she did this and she's 78 now. The song was released in 1978.
yeah it made me laugh when he said "she gotta be in her 50s" :D
Kids have zero historic reference and to them 50 might as well be 80. A couple years ago when my daughters was about 17 we were watching something about the Korean War and I tried to get her to watch and she said “I don’t have to be interested in things that happened in your time”! wtf?????? I grew up in the 80s. Not the 50s. To her there was no difference! Same thing here with this kid thinking Debby’s 50 and they had no idea this was a 70’s hit!!!! 😮😊 😂
@@mackdeen7021 Everything before the new kids were born is just "old times" and "days of yore"...
@@mememefinally At one stage he said she might be 45. Makes you worry about maths education.
Blondie was a very influential band in a time that had a lot of music innovation, They contributed to early punk, new wave and even rap.
Acting "weird" is a subtle fuck you to the establishment, you're supposed to go out there and do what is safe and expected. Blondie and other bands from the CBGB scene were like, nah, fuck you, how about this.
Agree 💯 it was a cool F you mo ❤
It’s crazy cause up until the 90s, being famous and conforming was uncool. Look at any interview with stars from the 80s or 90s. Everyone is acting nonchalant or like they don’t want to be there. Like pulling teeth to get a straight answer. Everything changed with social media. People from the 90s would be disgusted with us. 😂
That all they could do in the suburbs. ;) and thank the Punk Rock Gods!
@@kleeklee4572I think you have it backwards. The most popular music in the '70s was disco and arena rock. Punk was pretty niche and not considered cool at all. In the '80s glam rock (hair metal) was all the rage. So was new wave and synth pop, but it was all very commercial and conformist. It wasn't until the '90s with so-called "grunge" and alternative that it became cool to be nonconformist. Stripped down music, non-virtuoso playing, punk, metal and classic rock influences, and a PNW thrift store aesthetic, which was basically a big FU to glam rock and new wave and new romantic stuff which was also pretty glam.
But like any movement, once it catches on and becomes cool, it becomes conformist and commercial. Even before it becomes cool it's still conformist within that group. The punks all conformed to the punk culture and aesthetic, the goths to the goth culture and aesthetic, the grunge people to the grunge culture and aesthetic. Same as the metalheads, the disco people, etc.
It's human nature, as social animals, to be part of a "tribe" of some kind and conform to the norms of that tribe.
@@jackgilchrist Bro, '80s glam rock is oh so very 1970s, it was dead by the time the 80s arrived. Punk took it out.
She is almost 80 and she's still performing and rocking it!
You could tell he was definitely crushing big on Debbie because every time they showed a close-up of her with a smile he immediately lit up with a smile himself. Ain’t nothing wrong with that. I’ve watched this video a hundred times and she makes me smile every time she smiles too.
I'm not at all surprised,she's more beautiful than anyone of this generation.
Blondie ( or Deborah Harry ) was sexy 100%
She’s just so beautiful
@@DennisNelson-ee2il She's one of those few people where they're so beautiful that it hurts
I was about 13 and was taking private violin lessons; the instructor, a student of the great Itzak Pearlman, was having me do classical exercises. Being the age I was, I asked if we could do some modern music; he let me pick a song, and I went to the music store and bought the sheet music for “ Heart Of Glass”; we spent a few minutes each lesson on it ❤
HEART OF GLASS WAS RELEASED 1978.
THE RAPTURE WAS RELEASED 1980.
Blondie's last hit was MARIA from 1999.
Thought this came out in the 70s. I bought the 45 and i don't remember being in high school yet
Rapture, not THE
In the UK Blondie also had a hit with Good Boys in 2003 (peaked at number 12), don't think it was a hit anywhere else. Famous for having Brian May of Queen added to the lyrics credits since she pinched some lyrics from We Will Rock You and Queen threatened to sue. They've had a few singles since then but no hits.
Yeah, I was thinking if it was the 80's it was the very beginning because I remember the apartment I was living in when I first heard it, and I moved away in '81.
Shes been involved in other projects as well ( jazz passengers) i saw ger in 81. And 90s and 2 summer ago & once w jazz passengers. Met her that time.
Also she was in my older cousins wedding . Dated a second cousin
Debbie was a brunette who went blonde with the band. All of the guys of my generation that didn't have a crush on her went on to careers in floral arrangement, hair dressing or Broadway dancers.
She was my wet dream as well
Deadset gorgeous this lady. she was a Playboy bunny too, for obvious reasons
We loved to dance when this was released in the late 70s and that disco beat got everyone moving!
They were a punk rock band when they started out.
There was some push back from their fans when they released this as being a 'disco sell-out".
They were making fun of Disco, it was known as the Disco song. Radio stations wouldn't play any thing other than Disco so they recorded the song as a joke, and it became a hit. They're later songs confused people that thought they were a Disco band
They also did the first rap video.
Punk was in its infancy...REAL punk started in England in the 70's ,I was there meanwhile coming home to NY Studio 54 was starting ,disco!
Punk in England, disco at same time in NYC...they came about almost at the same time...I know I lived in bothe places...
My favorite song of hers was call me. It was in the American gigolo movie with Richard Gere.
Amazing song
I have a neighbor who was stationed in Europe with the army. There was a Blondie concert by the base and one of the guys claimed he had gone to school with Debbie. They were ragging on him so finally he got up and went to the hallway going back stage and asked one of the people there to tell Debbie that he was there with four friends. When the guy finally did go back they were invited backstage and had a nice time eating and the troops drank some beer. The band was in the area for a week and they got to hang with them two more times. He says that it’s one of the greatest good memories he has of his time in the military.
I seen her in concert when she was 60 and she still was in a skirt and danced around the stage and it was an amazing concert
This was 1978..height of disco era and punk. Brings back great memories.
Clem Burke is one of the truly great rock drummers - exceptional on "Atomic" too. Someone once told him to angle his toms towards him to make them easier to play and he said "Nah, they look cooler this way" and stuck with it
He was and is still phenomenal! He still plays drums for Debbie Harry when she does a tour. BTW back then, he kept time to the drum machine that you hear in the beginning, throughout the song. Not an easy task, any drummer knows this.
Blondie "ATOMIC" (original video) is my favorite!! ❤ Debbie is so beautiful and strange in the video. Gotta love her!
I believe this was 1978. She had a unique way of blending rock punk and even some disco cool reaction.
Debbie Harry will turn 79 this July. This song came out in 1979.
Blondie were hugely influential, blending aspects of disco, pop, rock, and even some early rap. And Deborah Harry... Hubba hubba
For my money there best song is Dreaming. You should check it out
Punk too.😊
She's an American born in Miami , and she used to work as a Playboy Bunny.
She grew up in NJ very close to me. She has an accent
New Jersey kid, and she also worked for the BBC in New York at one point.
Nope. She is from NJ and lives in my town, Middletown, actually. The expensive side. As does our awful Governor. As did Bon Jovi, Jon Stewart, Geraldo (had a newspaper in the neighboring town of Red Bank) and Maury Povich.
@@jacqueline4514 She may have grown up in NJ but she was still born in Miami.
Wow! I didn't know she was from Florida.
Blondie was the first Punk band to chart in the US with Heart of Glass on their 3rd album 'Parallel Lines', and lead singer Debbie harry was the first Rock Star Pin-Up with posters sold worldwide as their hits went number 1 worldwide.
They were never that popular in the US compared to in Australian or the UK.
Bands in this era often adopted weird or awkward movements as a way to diss the industry moguls who wanted to tell them what to do.
Clearly not enough dissing of the industry moguls today with the boring, cookie cutter stuff of those who can't really sing.
Especially her. I loved how she continued with her own thing no matter what.
I saw Blondie in 2019 at the Hollywood Bowl with Garbage opening up for them, it was so great
This was the late 70's and we have to remember music videos weren't out then, people were on video for the first time!
Music videos started around 1958 with The Big Bopper (J T Richardson).
He made three on the same day and called them ‘music videos’.
Chantilly Lace was one of the three… th-cam.com/video/rKBZC0awDNU/w-d-xo.htmlsi=9Q2pvP08nC2K57gv
But MTV in the States and Much Music in Canada didn't start until 1980 and that's when everyone started watching!
I absolutely love Blondie! I remember hearing her in 1978 when I was school... And I thought wow what a cool song... I love all her songs
Back in the late '70s and '80s. That was the style of music when you would basically stand and belt out this beautiful music but barely move your head or body... It was just a thing people did....it was like a "European" style and edgy...best way to describe it.
I was considered her somewhere between pop, punk and disco
Heart of glass is 70s! 1978 HUGE hit along with Rapture in 1980. ❤ That's her boyfriend on the guitar. Yep, they were so punk rock, always different! Love your reactions! ❤
Every guy wanted her and every girl wanted to be her. I saw Blondie many time at CBGB’s.
My sister and I had 3 records we would play over and over; Blondie, Heart and Pat Benetar. Great memories. I still listen to them all today. This wasn't the 80's, it was the 70's.
This song is from 1978, released as a single in 1979 and became a massive hit. Debbie was actually in her early 30's, 33 to be precise. Today she is 78. Blondie is an incredible band, and they have a very impressive list of hits and a big back catalogue. They are still making music today.
Born in 73 and my intro to Blondie was The Tide is High and I was hooked from then on.
I was 17 when this song came out in 1979 and I had a MAD crush on Debbie as every guy did! They were an American band that came out of the New York City underground punk scene. They were able to perfectly blend punk, rock and disco to create “their” sound.
I remember when this song came out, Blondie had their own sound and they stood out and didn’t get lost in the crowd of other bands.
The 80's was the most innovative era for music, post punk, new wave, new romantics, perfect pop, 2 tone, the birth of house, electronic and everything else. Being a teen in the 80's... nothing beats it.
Started mid 70s...
Miss those days ❤
The 80's (including the late 70's) birthed Goth and Industrial, as well.
And in 1980s post 2000 life was supposed to be sooo much easier...🤦♂️😂🤪
"Pretty" - talented, sassy and SEXY! Don't forget, like good music, sexy is ageless. Excellent reaction gentlemen.
and: ♫ ... law, like wine, is ageless... ♫ 😉
There's a cracking documentary out there about the creation of this album, the sound they made had never been done before and that's because it wasn't technically possible, they found some genius who invented the electronic gizmos to make it possible
I’ve seen her 3 times in concert. Her last one I saw was in Cincinnati with Joan Jett and Stevie Nicks….. and it was a 🔥 concert!!
You gotta do
"One Way or Another"
"Atomic"
"Rapture"
"Union City Blues"
"The Tide Is High"
"Call Me"...
So many great Blindie songs!
Don't stop here boys
Debbie Harry is an ICON!! The fact she was already in her early / mid thirties during Blondie's most successful era is insane! Talk about a late bloomer.
She have both a softness and a grit in her voice and tone... plus, she was a stunner looking MUCH younger than she really was. She still sings live on stage to this day, at 79! INSANE performer!
She was stunning woman. Great songs and memories.
Smiles say it all. Homing in on 80, still looking & sounding fine.
She's 78. But she was a model, dancer, and playboy bunny. So...yes. Very attractive.
Love Blondie. I’m going to see them in June and I cannot wait!! You should check out their song Atomic. It’s my favourite.
Gotta love a bit of Blondie, Atomic is my fave, check it out. Even as a teenager in the 90s I had the Wedding Dress poster of Debbie on my bedroom wall.
It’s the 80’s man! Flock of Seagulls, Tears for Fears, The Vapors, Kajagoogoo,Spandau Ballet..it goes on and on..New Wave..I love it when my son plays The Cure, Siouxsie and the Banchees, Yazz..Bauhaus..in the goth moment..lol..the best time, the best music.
My fav song. I was 8 the year it came out. Most leading ladies of bands in the 90s britpop era all credited and did their version of Debbies cool. She gave the dress she wore in this video to sharleen spiteri lead singer of scottish band Texas. Blondie played glastonbury main stage last summer. They had massive success in UK
You need to do more Blondie !
Their repertoire is varied, tight AF, and very influential
They're still playing and touring
Debbie was one of the most aesthetically gorgeous creatures God ever made (I say this as a straight lady). Complete work of art.
I agree! She’s just a doll
My sisters had this 45. It is firmly engrained in my memory including when played at 33 and 78 rpm. It is extra bizarre at 33 rpm.
These dudes don’t know what a 33 or 45 is. Well, the 40 year old might. But the kid don’t.
Blondie still tours they were touring last year.. TH-cam has footage of them playing live in NY Debbie Harris is 78 years old and still rockin on!!!
You should really listen to 'Dreaming' Clem tears up the drums on that one. I was a fan ever since.
I love that you can't hear someone sing falsetto without giggling. Have you really never heard falsetto before? I guess it is sort of rare in rock/pop music, more commonly heard in chorale music, but still......it's not THAT weird! LOL As far as their awkwardness, that was part of their charm. Debbie has said she wanted her movement to be out of synch with the music, she wanted to move how she felt instead of a choreographed (what she called "cheerleader") style of moving in sync with the music. She's a bit eccentric, as befits her ex-beatnik beginnings. She may look like the prom queen, but she acts more like the outsiders who skipped school! LOL Thanks for covering this. Do more Blondie! Do some edgy ones like Rip Her To Shreds, X Offender, One Way Or Another, etc. You won't regret!
I was thinking the same thing. It’s fascinating that this sounds weird to a young person today. It goes to show how much popular music has changed from then to now.
*Seventy-eight* years old and still rockin'!! 😊
Call Me is my favourite Blondie song. It's still my favourite song for a speed skate at the rink. But weirdly, I used to use the intro to Dreaming as my ringtone in the 90s. It has epic, mad drumming for a pop song.
At this point at the end of the 70's she was considered more alternative rock/punk with a bit of disco thrown in.
When MTV started in '81 these musicians all of a sudden had the studios telling them to make videos to songs they'd already released as well as new songs. For the most part they had no idea what they were doing at first so a lot of the videos look kind of stiff or weird. 😂
The "kind of stiff" of course is done on purpose. Blondie was actually only popular in Australia first, from 1976, when they released "In the Flesh". That was because Australia had a music video show from 1974, and Blondie were making music videos.
Saw her at a free concert in FLORIDA 1978 before the parallel lines dropped was thought she was old then we were 17 and she was 30+. They were great to listen to live
This song is from 1979. Debrah Harry is 78 now. This is the album version. There is also a disco remix of this
Oh, this young lad understands music very much. I like him
I'm in my late 50s now, and Debbie Harry is older than my mum.
She's one of my music heroes.
Watching the lead actress dance in the Netflix series, Wednesday, reminded me of Debbie Harry - something about the deliberate awkward movements being both elegant and unsettling at the same time.
This song dropped in early 1979. Deborah Harry (Blondie) was born Angela Trimble in 1945 and was 34 when this song dropped. She is now 78 years old as of 2024. And still looks great.
This song was made in 1978, before MTV and other venues for videos to be seen by the general public. (Studio 54 was BIG in the 70s. Despite the sign at the start, it was not filmed there.) The song was trimmed, censored (for the word ass) and rereleased in '79 to get more air play. This video was a promo video were they are lip syncing over the recording as was often done at that time. The band acts 'bored' because they hated doing that. The video was 'resurrected' when MTV started. When MTV took off in 1981, a lot of bands/promoters dug up promo videos for songs released before then.
I firmly believe that artists should be awarded credit where credit is due. Four seconds on TikTok does not do that.
Based around the Roland CR78 drum machine on Rock 1 preset,this song came out in 78 but flopped but was re released the following year and got to number 1 over here in the UK
She was a waitress at the famous Maxx's Kansas City ..in NYC .Back in the early 70's my hangout. Everyone was there, artists of all kind coming after concerts! Check out documentaries on the place!
In 1978 I was eight years old and my cousin had this record and I listen to it. I have been a fan ever since. She’s gotta be in her late 70’s.
When this song hit from the Parallel Lines album in 1978 Debbie Harry was 31 years old.
Ya hear the skipped beat in the instrumental chorus part? Adds to the whole thing.
Have you checked out the song they did with Coolio? No Exit...
Debbie is always dorky and adorable :-))
Studio 54 peaked in the late 70's and Blondie were the shit mixing Punk, New wave and disco into magic. Those plodding disco beats interlaced with the post punk guitar riffs and Debbie's amazing vocals, what a time.
Interesting band for sure, catchy music. Heard them all over the place when I was a teen in the 80's
Deborah Ann Harry (born Angela Trimble; July 1, 1945) is an American singer, songwriter and actress, best known as the lead vocalist of the band Blondie. Four of her songs with the band reached No. 1 on the US charts between 1979 and 1981.
She’s 78
She was 34 when this song came out, and she's close to 80 years old now. And she's STILL making music.
This song reached #1 in 1978. It's cool you guys have a crush on her because many, many men back then were crushing on her en masse.
In the 90s a company made a 1/6th scale model of her as Judge Anderson from the Judge Dredd comics and first movie. It was pulled from shelves because her headlights showed through the costume.
This came out in 78 MTV and music videos as we know them were not a thing yet. Maria is my favorite song from Blondie.
There's a Disco ball in this video for a reason. Blondie was big in the disco cubs in the late 70's. Debbie was gorgeous.,
They are all from NYC and she is from the punk/new wave scene - Blondie was good friends with Talking Heads, The Ramones and the rest of the CBGB crowd. One of their best deep cuts is 11:59 (the song).
DAAANNNGG... this song was still playing when I was a teenager - but it CAME OUT the year I was born! I had to look it up, but that makes alot of sense, because this was back when there was still the whole disco & rock musical divide (late 70's); her song started the whole (then new) disco-rock genre... man, I never knew till now that Blondie was the start of such cultural norms for the 80's! So she was actually 33 years old (and looking GOOD) when this song came out (hmmm, so you'd be cougar hunting, then 😼😂) - and is currently 78 years old.
Man in the late 70's and 80s when this song and rapture all came out, she was like my heart throb. Dude I was in love with her as a teen.
I always like to hear from people who weren't fans give their take, because a fan has a built-in bias. So, thank you guys so much for taking the time to listen.
One of the members in this line-up of Blondie is British, the bass player with the curly hair, Nigel. The opening sound before the rest of the music kicks in is made by a drum machine and what they did was make the machine play two of its drum sounds at the same time, creating a unique sound (Missy Elliott used slowed version on "Work It").
I like that Andiroo points out how timeless it sounds. Even when it was getting airplay in '78/'79, it sounded futuristic. And her voice was layered. Essentially, she's singing along to herself.
Blondie started out as Punk band and so they weren't into making flashy videos. This one was 3 years before Mtv.
Thanks again! I truly appreciate your take.
"Heart of Glass" is a song by the American new wave band Blondie, written by singer Debbie Harry and guitarist Chris Stein. It was featured on the band's third studio album, Parallel Lines (1978), and 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.
BLONDIE beautiful girl Amazing song everytime.......
The band is excellent. Chris Stein is the guy holding the mirror ball and is Debbie's hubby on guitar, Jimmy Destri on keyboards, Clem Burke on drums, Nigel Harrison on bass and Frank Infante on guitar. Dreaming is a great track and showcases their drummer's skill. Clem is amazing.
Parallel Lines is a great album, I was 14 (now 59) when this came out, crushed hard on her for years. Great band
My 22 year old listens to all the classic rock and surprises me when I hear him listening to Blonde or Sheena Easton…too.
Debbie Harry was in her mid-thirties
when they released this song.
Debbie Harry is 78 years old now and still rockin. Look for a recent youTube on her. Music was exciting and amazing especially through the 70's. Nobody sounded like anybody else and everything was cutting edge. I never thought it would end. The Golden Age of Rock in all it's genre's.
Studio 54 so it must be the 80's???? Lol smdh aww bless y'all's heart.
Hurt was a cover. It was originally a Nine Inch Nails song.
Which is also fantastic. Just different. I love them both.
The album “Parallel Lines” by Blondie (Hart of Glass was part of) was inducted to the National Recording Registry 2024 !!
I think Blondie had their break through in Europe with that song. That pushing almost rocking rythm and her airy singing are a perfect mixture for dancing, almost hypnotizing.
Parallel Lines was released in 1978. Blondie were a Punk band on the underground NYC music scene. PL put them very much in the mainstream.
Debbie, Harry is currently 79 years old and she still looks fabulous! Blondie started out as a punk band, often seen performing at CBGBs in New York City before they hit the "big time"
Clem Burke is one of the all time great drummers
He's 🔥
Debbie was in her 30's when this was released in 79. The awkwarkness in the video is kind of theme in many of Blondie's videos, they appear to be trying to move, don't care/are too cool and it always appears slightly weird. You should react to Atomic, The Hardest Part, Denis, X-Offender, Picture This - there is so much Blondie to discover.
Their "awkwardness" was a response to the music industry's fickleness. In one magazine article, they might criticize her for being "too sexy" and "moving around too much", and then if she held still and didn't move around or act at all sensual, the next article would criticize them for being "boring" and "just standing there". In the long run, they did what was smart and just did it whatever way they wanted including quirky performances like this. It's sheer determination on their part not to get sidetracked by corporate BS.
I was absolutely in love with her back then as a young coming of age boy turning into a man, lol
I think it is good to hear just little bits of music. It is an introduction. A million years ago when I was a kid , we were introduced to classical through the cartoons.
Check out the extraordinarily diverse sounds of this amazing band!!!! Dreamin and Atomic
Postmodern Jukebox has done a very interesting cover of this song, with Addie Hamilton . . . It's VERY GOOD !