Songs That Changed Music: Blondie - Heart Of Glass
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In 1979 Blondie, the New York band fronted by Debbie Harry, had their first US hit with “Heart of Glass”,a propulsive, glitter-smothered track about a love affair gone wrong, and a shoo-in for radio playlists. It was a bold new sound for the new-wavers whose first album had combined Sixties pop melodies with choppy guitars and a snarly attitude. Blondie played regularly at the punk mecca CBGB, and hung around with Television, The Ramones and the New York Dolls. With “Heart of Glass” they had gone full disco, and not everyone was happy about it.
The beginnings of the song had emerged five years earlier. Harry and her partner and bandmate Chris Stein had written a new track inspired by The Hues Corporation’s “Rock the Boat”,but weren’t keen on the result. “We tried it as a ballad, as reggae, but it never quite worked,” Harry said in 2013. “At that point, it had no title. We just called it ‘The Disco Song’.” And so they shelved the demo until 1977 when they played it to Mike Chapman, who was producing their third album, Parallel Lines. He spied a hit, and suggested they rearrange it with what he called “a Donna Summer vibe”. This sat well with Harry, who had been known to cover Summer’s “I Feel Love” at gigs.
The final version of “Heart of Glass” was an irresistible collision of Giorgio Moroder-esque synth and Harry’s dreamily dispassionate vocals. In a symbolic merging of rock and disco, a Roland CR-78 drum machine was laid over live drums in the studio - no small achievement, given they had to be synchronised manually.
“Heart of Glass” went to number one in the UK and the US. The band appeared on the front of Rolling Stone, and Andy Warhol threw them a party at Studio 54. But feathers were ruffled. These were tribal times for musicians and their fans, and the song had arrived in the build-up to the Disco Sucks! campaign, which culminated in dinosaur rockists blowing up records at Chicago’s Comiskey Park baseball stadium during the so-called Disco Demolition Night.
Shortly after the song’s release as a single, The New York Times reported it had “appalled Blondie’s fans and fellow musicians on the underground new‐wave scene” - so much so that bassist Nigel Harrison felt compelled to apologize for their “compromise with commerciality”. Clem Burke, Blondie’s drummer, initially refused to play it live, though he relented when it became a hit. Stein stood firm, meanwhile, and shrugged off the criticism. “It’s not selling out,” he said. “It’s only one song.”
In December 2004, Rolling Stone ranked the song number 255 on its list of the 500 greatest songs of all time. It was ranked at number 259 when the list was updated in April 2010. Slant Magazine placed it at number 42 on their list of the greatest dance songs of all time and Pitchfork named it the 18th best song of the 1970s.
In 2018, “Heart of Glass” ranked at number 66 in the UK’s official list of biggest selling singles of all-time, with sales of 1.32 million copies.
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What other songs do you think changed music? Let me know below!
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@@Bodyknowledge77 agreed 100%!!
Metallica's Master Of Puppets or Ride The Lightning changed music. The first time I heard Fight Fire With Fire it blew my mind. ;-)
@@deadmaydie great ideas!
I'd love one of Prince's "I Wanna Be Your Lover". The sound of that snare is amazing. I've read they used an AKG 451 with the ck1 capsule for that, but can't find anymore info on it. Being a one man project, I think this song deserves an in depth video of yours. Excellent work you're doing there. Thanks for all of that!
I remember being 14 when this song was released. My best buddy and I were heading to the strip mall on our bikes and his older sister asked us to pick up two singles for her at the record store. They were Heart Of Glass and Sultans of Swing. It was the most 1979 day ever.
Thanks ever so much for sharing that! Agreed, that is a very 1979 day!
someone other than me has now mentioned sultans of swing !!!
Both amazing tracks that will never go out of style.
I can relate, I was born in 1964
Blondie was a big hit on me god knows how I got the LP but I loved her voice and sound cheers warren
Thanks ever so much
Love hearing Chris Stein's guitar isolated. I wish I could hear a longer clip of it.
It’s not Chris’s guitar part - it is Frank Infante’s guitar.
Love this series Warren. How do I find the list of songs you're covered ? I'm always interested in the stones when Keith sings (Happy/Tumbling Dice ) -- have you looked into that ?
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Heart of Glass sounded like nothing else on the radio at the time.
Agreed 100%!
Yes, totally agree. It stood out so much
Sounds like nothing else now.
It sounded like a Donna Summer record.
Blondie was amazing, original and cool. They were the commercial end of the post punk scene. Debbie harry was the Marilyn Monroe of punk
Yes, indeed
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Thanks ever so much!
Somehow they seem to have that art-punk feel even when they're making pure pop songs. I think everyone likes them, quite amazing band.
Agreed! Amazing band! Thanks ever so much
I think Debbie had listened to Donna Summer's I Feel Love in '77 and she knew what the disco doctor would order. Those airy vocals that float up high sure make me feel that.
Thanks ever so much for sharing
Jimmy Destri deserves more credit. He's largely responsible for the sound of this song. I think him and Greg Hawkes from the Cars have been vastly underrated in terms of their role in shaping that late 70's new wave electro-rock sound that preceded the synth pop of the 80s.
Yes give Jimmy his due.
This is an epic presentation with lots of concrete details fleshing out a real story. There's a slightly poorer alternate universe where the producer never asked, "Have you got anything else?"
Thanks ever so much!! That’s an alternative universe I wouldn’t want to be in!
Suggestion: Dire Straits! Did they change music? Not sure... But I'd love to hear you talking about them!
great job as always but would have loved to hear you talk about the rare 7\4 bars. not many #1 songs with odd time codes in them. perhaps an idea for another episode?
The reason why Blondie were big in Australia before anywhere else was due to a music TV show called 'Countdown'. Countdown used to play music clips from all over the world (years before MTV came along). The Chrysalis label were quite proactive in making music clips and they sent two Blondie clips, 'X Offender' and its B-side, the doo-woppy 'In the Flesh'. Countdown decided to play 'In the Flesh' and it ended up becoming a massive #2 hit -- the first time that Blondie made the charts anywhere.
Interesting! Possibly the most obvious case of Countdown leading the way was with ABBA, whose post-Waterloo success kicked off in Australia before anywhere else.
In (relatively) more recent times, radio station JJJ has also led the world at times. Apparently "Cantaloop" (now there's a candidate for Songs That Changed Music) was given airplay on JJJ before anywhere else. And I can remember being in NYC just as Moby hit the big time in the US thinking, "but JJJ was playing this years ago"
And Mike Chapman is Australian so that fits together nicely! :)
Molly Meldrum for the win!!
Thanks ever so much for sharing that New Falconer Records! Very cool to know!
I think this happend to Meat Loaf as well during this time
The first album I gave my daughter was "Plastic Letters" ... A couple of years ago she took me to see Blondie on a reunion tour.
That was a very good investment indeed! You both have great taste!
This song never gets old for me. I was too young for the discos, but I remember grooving under the mirror ball at the roller disco. Mike Chapman was a songwriter and producer for The Sweet's early hits before working with Blondie. He knew how to make a pop single for sure.
The Sweet were writers of their own stuff, and did some good covers before Chinn-Chapman but Chapman got them the hits and the media profile they had been lacking, same for blondie
Fantastic! Yes, Chapman was such a hugely talented Producer and writer!
@@highpath4776 yes, huge fan of all concerned, Sweet, Blondie and Mike Chapman!
Mike Chapman and Blondie was a very fortuitous collaboration. He really pushed them like they've never experienced before and all for the better! Thanks for covering this enduring classic!
Thanks ever so much!
Nice one!
I considered him the 7th member of Blondie
Fantastic episode, Warren! You are the best!
Thanks ever so much Ivan!
Speaking of New York bands from the same era… How about doing a video about Television’s “Marquee Moon”? And moving to the other coast how about doing The Doors’ “L.A. Woman”? Once again… I love your videos Warren. Thanks for the constant quality content. ✌🏽
Warren. Fantastic. Thank you for your articulate perspective. I always learn so much from your videos. And I can't believe that you got the stems/tracks!!! So cool to hear the individual parts. This song, and Blondie is eternal for sure! Cheers!!!
Clem mocking the "hairdresser" vibe with that poofy, Davey Jones hair style is hilarious.
When Blondie incorporated a drum machine with their real drums, it was virtually unheard of before in the context of a pop/rock band. But by the '80s it was everywhere. Just ask Tears For Fears!
Thanks ever so much for sharing!
I was 13 when this came out and remember it sounding very chic, very adult, very NYC and very futuristic. Anything that came out with well-produced synths and drum machines really stood out from what was on the radio at the time.
Chic! That’s the adjective one is looking for with this song.
Thanks ever so much for sharing Nathan!
@@purpurina5663 absolutely
As a 14yo in 1979 in the UK, I painted by bedroom walls all the way around black and white 20cm lines from floor to ceiling to mimic the cover of the parallel lines album.
Great call with Heart of glass. I was seduced and bought the single. So infectious on many levels as you point out Warren. Another hit 'Songs that changed music' for me 👍
I'm old enough to remember this release. I didn't want to play the dance but I learned from it....
Amazing Karl!
Thanks for putting this back out there!
Thanks ever so much!!
Love Blondie. The music of my tween and teen years.
Agreed Loren!
@@Producelikeapro Debbie and Giger, the visuals of my teen sexiest nightmares...
This was the first radio song that entered my consciousness as a young boy. It sent a zing up my spine and let me know that there was another, much more interesting world out there!
Yes, huge song for me too!
Addicted to this channel. Thanks for sharing your knowledge. Massive Attack would be a great band to know more about. I was truly floored the first time I heard “Blue Lines”. “Unfinished Sympathy” still gives me chills anytime I give it a listen. Keep up the great work.
The intro to Unfinished Sympathy is stunning. Those strings are just pure bliss
I didn't realise how melodic the guitar line was until I just heard it isolated. Interesting.
In her autobiography Making Tracks, Debbie wrote that Chris Stein would lie on the bed with her and play that guitar riff over and over, years before they set lyrics to it 🥰
Dan Harris - Interesting snippet that. Thanks.
Blondie are a bomb of energy. Debbie harry done a very good work in the punk scene ,and gave it the freshness thats the genre has needed. The drums are also on a point,in almost every their songs
Agreed 100%!!
Sweet. Back up in the US. Love your work, Warren.
Thanks ever so much!
@@Producelikeapro Also, thanks to the folks working with you. Lets not forget them. Thanks to them too.
Where are my roller skates? Back in the 70s this song came on everybody got on the rink.
Haha thanks for sharing!
Blondie combined awesome music with one of the sexiest women of the 20th Century. Did we buy their records? Yes!
Those guitar parts were Frank not Chris
Warren.
Another two songs that changed music are the following:
Tubeway Army. Are Friends Electric?
Gary Numan. Cars.
Could you please cover these in another video?
Pure.
“Hanging On The Telephone” is my all time favorite
Wonderful song!
It’s a cover
Musicians need to stop arguing with producers who have better ears than they do. It's kind of obvious to decent musicians when they aren't playing together, or together with a machine or click track. Today, they could have just fired the whole band and produced Debbie by herself.
Finally I can see this one. For me it reminds me of the Rolla Disco that I used to go to as a teenager in Sydney Australia. Great song!
Thanks mate
Speaking as a bassist, I always found it easier to play along to drum machines than live drums.
Blondie didn't change music because nobody could match them.
They inspired!! They certainly inspired me and many other Gen X musicians!
Would love to see something on Talk Talk ❤️
I used to put this record on and just play my father’s drums to each song until I felt like I was getting better. Clem Burke was a drumming influence on me for sure!!
That's great to hear! Thanks ever so much
We were so lucky as young kids in the UK watching 'Top Of The Pops' in early 1978...first, Kate Bush, then a few weeks later Blondie's first appearance with 'Denis'. Both changed my life in many ways, but without Blondie (my *all-time* favourite band) I would be a very different person. Another great episode (I'm obviously biased)...to be honest I'd love it if you covered practically every Blondie song in this series.
This is one of my first memories of hearing music: this and SOS by ABBA
Fantastic!!
I’m not sure it really falls within the “Songs that changed music” category perfectly, since it’s a soundtrack piece., but “The Good The Bad And The Ugly” would be very interesting to hear about. The song and the composer have certainly influenced many rock bands since. And everyone loves the music don’t they? It is somewhat mysterious who played and wrote what on the song and with what kind of equipment in the studio. Any chance that you could do your magic on this one, Warren?
Huge fan!! Thanks ever so much
I have the vinyl and listened to it recently and thought the same ..its amazing 👏
I'd love you to an in-depth on Frank Zappa Warren, Robert Fripp would be up there too but I suppose neither would be mainstream enough?
Coming soon!
What % of the songwriting royalties did Jimmy Destri receive? Or did he work for free to make everyone else rich?
Got to mention Robert Fripp ‘s involvement with the band , they even played I feel love together
Their live version of Heroes with RF is my favorite non-album Blondie track.
I think Frank Infante probably played the parts you assumed were Chris, as he was a bit more accomplished.
After Chapman finished the tracks at Record Plant, he and Peter Coleman came to my studio to do the mix, Forum Studio. Chapman and Coleman had made the first two Exile albums there with great success. We were glad to have them back for a third time.
While the end result speaks for itself the actual sessions were fraught with technical concerns. Specifically the master tapes began shedding oxide, in concerning amounts. We had a Stephens 24 track which has no capstan and was purchased partly because it was easier on tapes. Stephens himself was flown in and found no issues. Needless to say Chapman was not happy. As I said, it all turned out just fine.
This popped up on my You Tube last night and it took me straight back to that control room and those historic sessions. Cheers all, thanks for letting an old man reminisce.
Thanks for the story.
@@rogerwilco2 Chapman was a force in the studio and Peter Coleman was the epitome of an engineer. I feel honored to have been up close and personal with recording history. After the 3 albums and two number one singles with Chapman and Coleman came the Halverson years at Forum Studio. Bill Halverson came and lived in Kentucky and became our house producer. While my role at the studio was director of operations, I spent most of my time sitting next to him behind the Sphere Eclipse console. As I recall Bill's tenure was nearly two years I believe he's in Nashville now.
oh finally a in depth video on this song!!!!!!! thank you thank you thank you
Thanks ever so much Jasmine
Love Blondie, and enjoyed this vid. I'm curious, if there is even anything out there to find, what about Mexican Radio? That would be a cool vid.
The "lush" synth parts at 10:07 and further sound like an accordion. Don't deny it.
the interviewer is legendary Australian Ian "Molly" Meldrum from the weekly TV show Countdown
Ha ha, when it came on the radio I would always hope it was the version when she said "ass"
Thank you so much for this. Parallel Lines was the first album [cassette] I ever owned, and I have obsessed over the details of the production ever since, devouring all the alternate versions and breaking them down in my head. Last year I was in my office alone at night and had a stroke, which hit the cognitive area of my brain. After laying on the floor a bit, I looked around and saw the lyrics to Heart of Glass hanging on my wall, it had been custom made for me by a dear soul and hung proudly. I couldn't speak or stand up, but I could hear in my head, "Lost inside, adorable illusion and I cannot hide..." I knew I was okay. I dragged myself to the door and got out of there. So yeah, I kind of like the song a little.
I like how your 'sideways' camera angle now makes sense, with the info on-screen, Warren 😀👍 And of course, a great song bringing back many nice memories - including seeing Blondie perform it on a German TV music show as a nine-year old and suddenly realising that there's more to girls than just being silly and annoying 😄
I had forgotten how stunning Deborah Harry was.
Love her Halston dress in the video
I have had a Blondie album, with Heart of Glass on it since the late 70's. It is not typical of music that I'd normally listen to and I still listen listen to it and still love it.
Songs that changed music is becoming rather epic! What a great series of videos!
Am I the only person that changed forever after seeing Debbie Harry in the Heart Of Glass music video? (Asking for an awkward teenager 'friend'!?!?)
Debbie was and is an amazing artist!
Another great one Warren! I know I made this suggestion before so here it is again. That other Canadian rock trio...... Triumph! Rick Emmet is one of favorite guitarist of all time. They were by far the best band of the day at the US Festival, I'll never forget it. What do you all think of Triumph?
My all time favorite band and from a production standpoint I love how in that era you could chase and achieve perfection, but you really had to work for it. Now someone would just sample the kick and paste it in and copy and paste the the guitar riffs etc. I really think something's been lost. because of that.
Yes, such an incredible time for music!!
The lyrics are awkward and not in the vernacular of the generation it was aimed to: MINE. None of us knew what she was saying - nor did we understand it when we read it on the record sleeve. We all lip synched wrongly to it on the dance floor. We could have made it cruising?? Really? What would Al Pacino say?
your videos are just wonderful. So is your voice and intonation. A really HUGE thankyou
Never seen this channel before but this is good stuff. Looking forward to watching the Robert Johnson video
Thanks ever so much!
Did ‘Backstreet Luv’ by Curved Air change music for you? It did for me.
I think they got royally screwed (pun indented!) by their management or label on this record?
I would like you to talk about Nina Hagen and her counterpart Line Lovich ... they revolutionized a sound especially Nina Hagen. Her musical upbringing was really interesting especially during the era of east and west Germany Berlin Wall. Talk about women in the late seventies and early eighties who really started a trend and now forgotten I don’t know if you also have talked about the Clash who basically turned punk music into MTV videos and into mainstream radio
Blondie is like NOTHING else
Punk, pop, rock
Even RAP.
They’ll never get the credit they deserve for opening music up to the world.
Agreed! Although they were huge in the UK, Europe and Australia!
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Oh they were big here, just not commercial so they didn’t get the airplay on traditional rock radio stations.
I was literally a fan at the age of seven from watching late night video shows that my sitter watched
(She’d let me stay up if I was quiet and just watched)
It sounded so different than the radio here in the states.
One way or Another was the first 45 I ever bought.
@@Heavywall70 fantastic! I think I bought most of the singles when they came out, I would take my pocket money and the 25p my Mum gave me for lunch and would buy one single a week, usually the number one!
Debbie Harry just oozes cool.
Wasn’t Frank Infante on guitar?
Warren, you should do horses by Patti smith.
I love that album!!
@@Producelikeapro I’ve seen patti smith live. Lenny Kaye is such an underrated guitar player.
Are those a couple of copies of "Songs in the Key of Life" behind you?
Those are the two part 8 track tapes and the double vinyl of Songs in the key of life! It’s one of my favourite albums ever!
@@Producelikeapro it should be one of everyone's favorite albums, imho. 🤟🎶
Agreed 1,000,000%!!
You should do Kings Of The Wild Frontier by Adam And The Ants
I love that song!
Strange....but this song sounded like my future when I heard this as a kid. It still tickles the spine like a great song does.
Always welcome to the ears.
you should spend more time talking about how the song changed music
@Frank Lee he should have been more specific
This is one of the first songs I liked because I liked it rather than because my older siblings liked it. I am floored by how complicated the recording technique was. Worth it but zinkies!
It was all about Kraftwerk. It's STILL all about Kraftwerk.
Haha indeed!!
What about a episode of "In the court of Crimson King" or "21 Century Schizoid Man" by KC? 😊🎶🎶
Incredible that Chapman had to push and hone the instruments so much, while Harry appears to almost effortlessly provide perfect vocals. I don't mean to slander the band (I love everything Blondie's done), I only wish to marvel at Harry's truly unique talent.
Excellent story! 👏
It just wasn't normal for a punk band to play to a click track back then.
In one of the candid liner notes he did for the Blondie CD releases, Chapman rated only one of the Blondie members to be a superb technical musician, and to my surprise it wasn't Clem Burke. It was guitarist Frank Infante.
Great stuff (as always) thanks a lot!! The raw separated tracks are always great to hear!
Would love to see something about Dead can Dance 👍
Huge fan!!
Parallel Lines was a huge influence on me. Also check out the very left-field and utterly fabulous album "Autoamerican".
I love Autoamerican! My friend Lenise worked in that album!
How about some Tom Tom Club?
Parallel Lines is a great album
Ah Debbie 😍
I truly appreciate your efforts to educate us about modern music history. I’m a fan.
Would you consider adding U2’s ‘Sunday Bloody Sunday’ and their ‘WAR’ album to the series? Or perhaps Rush’s ‘Tom Sawyer’ from their album ‘Moving Pictures’?
I once flew from Frankfurt to Bangkok with only parrell lines to listen to lol
I couldn’t have explained it better than you, Warren! Lead guitarist, #FrankInfante is my favourite member from that era of the band. 🎸💙
I still have the 45 rpm single of this somewhere. I remember buying it in 1979 when it came out and I was still a pre-teen. Loved the song ever since!
I was in love with Debbie......pretty sure she didn't know who I was! Hahahha.
Seriously enjoying this whole series on songs that changed music. The videos are so well put together - you could almost say ‘like a pro’ 😁. Thank you so much for all that you do here on the channel Warren - your content is truly excellent 👍🏻
Thanks ever so much Jack!
I'm afraid this is one of the songs I grew to hate (I really like it now. It's got such an earth folky drive compared to modern disco edmy stuff). But I didn't hate it as much as I detested 'The Tide Is High'. I love Blondie, especially Deb Harry, But at seventeen this and Tide were what was getting over played on our useless local FM radio station. It was hard to like for a 17 yo guitar player especially when he knew of Blondie's punk roots. Studying Blondie later in life I loved getting to hear the great more raw pre-release versions of their stuff and so thankful it's available.
Great Show! As always. Thanks Warren and Eric.
I cannot even begin to explain what this song does to me...i first heard it at the age of 7 and it still sounds like nothing else since.
same-its got the pulse of the universe flowing through it, sounded like the future THEN, and STILL DOES!
Thanks ever so much Kevin! Yes, amazing song
Mollie Meldrum from Aussie Countdown...Chapman was amazing...the compu rhythms of the secondary sounds of the CR 78...like a wave effect...not sure what the preset sound is...Destri was the hero to me on this one...disco rock was a real thing...rock bands turning the beat arounds