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cutting scars are hot as fuck jsyk. especially on tgirls. in case u didn't know.
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debbieeee
#70s rock#70s punk#70s music#70s fashion#70s#blondie band#blondie#debbie harry#deborah harry#parallel lines
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Debbie Harry performing Sunday Girl with Blondie on TopPop, 1978.
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Review #146: Parallel Lines, Blondie
Man oh man oh man. I love Blondie so much. I found this record in the Windsor Oxfam. I don’t remember exactly how old I was, but I remember what boyfriend was with me so that puts me between 15 and 18. Yeah, same guy. I actually don’t remember if he ended up getting his hands on this record or not. I think I still have it. Will rifle through my collection later to check.
Blondie was in the “being cool” wilderness for some absolutely crazy reason at that point, and nobody really gave a shit about them anymore. When I was 17 or 18 they were playing the Reading Hexagon which is honestly still just such an unbelievable insult I’m still annoyed about it. I’ll circle back to that.
Parallel Lines epitomizes the complete and total coolness and badassery of Debbie Harry. I have never wanted to be someone more than I wanted to be her. So much confidence. Such incredible cheekbones. Such commitment to art. No apologies. The voice of an angel one moment and snarling whimsical warnings, like, hey you, don’t fuck with me, the next. Always standing in front of all of those completely non-descript nobody dudes. Yeah they’re playing the music, but who cares, who are they? It’s all her. She is Blondie.
Can I pick a favorite? It opens with Hanging on the Telephone, in which she is really threatening to rip the phone clean off the wall. It might be that one. But we’ve also got the classic One Way Or Another, which needs no comment, and one of my actual favorites of all time, Heart of Glass which never fails to fuck me up, but like, it’s a god damn disco track? Like sure, yeah, let’s boogie away our heart break. And I did. And I have. And I will. And these are all SINGLES. We aren’t even discussing the actual album tracks yet. Just listen to it. Honorable mention goes to Sunday Girl, which I always really loved. It’s cute and it’s kind of sweet in a very teenage girl kind of way that worked for me since I was in fact, a teenage girl. Also, not on the official album release, but there was a version of that track where the latter half was sung entirely in French and I always really dug it.
Okay so circling back to the Hexagon. This is a weird story and I’m still not sure how I feel about it, to this day. As I said, Blondie were playing a show at the Hexagon. I was absolutely obsessed with them, and Debbie Harry. I was also 17 or 18 and spent every penny I had on going to shows, but those pennies were pretty limited. I worked as a waitress at the pub that was two doors down from my house. It was full of characters. One such character was a regular, he was in his late 40s, was very wealthy, didn’t drive, was single, and spent literally every bit of his spare time in that pub. Think on that. He paid a lot of attention to the various young women that worked there. Was he creepy? No not exactly. But did it make you uncomfortable? Yes it did. Because you never knew when he might make it weird. Everyone liked him well enough. One day out of the blue this guy presented me with five tickets to the Blondie show. I didn’t know what in the hell to say or whether to accept them. Or what it meant. Whether there were expectations attached to them. Whether it was okay to take them. I was uncomfortable. I was 17.
Here’s what happened. My Mom, who sort of knew him too, since he was always there, decided it was fine, because she wanted to go. But for it to be okay, she decided he also had to come. So we went, he came, and a few friends too. The thing is though, she never knew him like I did. I saw him every day. I saw him with the other girls that worked at the pub. I saw him drunk off his ass. I don’t know that I ever would have taken the tickets. Or if I did, I’m not sure I ever would have invited him. I feel a bit queasy about it to this day. I think in the end something really off-base happened one night between him and someone on staff and he got barred. That was usually the way it went with regulars who were there that often.
The other thing to note is that Blondie ended because Debbie Harry was with Chris Stein, who was literally dying of some rare autoimmune disease throughout their last tour. There were other factors at play, but essentially, they broke up because he was too sick and she stayed at his side and became his full-time carer. When he was well, he left her. They are, remarkably, still close friends to this day and still perform together. Just never forget that men are dogs, and that Blondie is and always will be Debbie Harry. I love her. To this day she looks better than I do in a mini skirt and I love that for her.
ETA: I checked and in fact, I do not still have Parallel Lines in my record collection, but I am quite confident it got lost when I moved back to the US. Also, I’m not 100% certain that show was at the Reading Hexagon. I just know it was a shitty venue not worthy of Blondie. This was 18 years ago. You get the idea.
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Me and her are like parallel lines, we have so much in common but we'll never meet.
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Blondie (1978)
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Can you guess the albums?
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Blondie - Parallel Lines (1978)
Forty-six years ago today, on September 23, 1978, Parallel Lines, the third studio album by Blondie, was released. An instant critical and commercial success, the album reached number one on the UK Albums Chart in February 1979 and proved to be the band's commercial breakthrough in the US, where it reached number 6 on the Billboard chart in April 1979. Spawning an impressive six singles—including two number one hits: “Heart of Glass” and “Sunday Girl”—the album is among the greatest albums of all time with Spin magazine calling it “the perfect pop-rock record”.
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Storia Di Musica #381 - Blondie, Parallel Lines, 1978
La storia del sestetto rock di oggi è di quelle famose. Nasce infatti dall'incontro artistico e sentimentale tra Deborah Harry, di lì a poco per tutti Debbie, e Chris Stein. Tutti e due hanno esperienze musicali precedenti: Harry ha cantato nei First National Unaphrenic Church And The Bank (che nome!) e poi nel gruppo folk rock dei Wind In The Willows, fino al 1968. Stein nel 1967 con il suo gruppo dei First Crow To The Moon fa da spalla nientemeno ai mitici Velvet Underground al Gymanasium di New York. Nel 1973, dopo vari tentativi, mettono su una band con Billy O'Connor alla batteria, Fred Smith al basso e due coriste bionde. Il primo nome che scelgono è The Stilettos, poi trasformato in Blondie in chiaro riferimento all'aspetto e al carattere della cantante. Dopo un po' si aggiunge Ivan Kral alla chitarra, ma dopo pochi mesi Kral va a formare il Patti Smith Group e Smith entra stabilmente nei Television. Nel 1975 la formazione cambia: alla batteria Clem Burke, alle tastiere Jimmy Destri e il bassista Gary Valentine. Iniziano a suonare stabilmente in quel locali che faranno la storia della new wave newyorkese: il Max's Kansas City, e il CBGB's tanto che il primo album, Blondie, è quasi un seguito del piccolo culto che hanno come band dal vivo. Non è un grande successo, tanto che Valentine lascia e arrivano Fran Infante e Nigel Harrison, rispettivamente alla chitarra e al basso. Il sestetto storico è così formato e arriva il primo grande successo: in Gran Bretagna, che li adotta come la nuova sensazione della musica post punk, Denis Denis (cover di un brano del 1963, Denise, del gruppo doo-woop Randy & The Rainbows) scala le classifiche europee ai posti più alti, e insieme al conturbante secondo singolo, (I'm Always Touched by Your) Presence, Dear, portano Plastic Letters ad essere uno dei dischi più venduti del 1977. Oltre ciò è qui evidente il distacco dal grezzo post punk degli esordi verso un suono più vario pronto a ricevere gli impulsi degli stili che stavano nascendo e ribaltando la scena del punk.
Tutto è pronto per il grande salto, che avviene grazie al lavoro in produzione di Mike Chapman, produttore australiano che in quei mesi non stava sbagliando un disco con i Sweet, Suzi Quatro, Smokie. Il titolo Parallel Lines (1978) è fuorviante dal punto di vista musicale, visto il perfetto incrocio di stili che lo rende uno dei dischi più belli della seconda metà degli anni '70 e anticipatore di quello che negli anni seguenti arriverà.
Hanging On The Telephone apre il disco: è un'altra cover azzeccatissima, in questo caso dei Nerves, gruppo di culto californiano guidato da Jack Lee, che Debbie e Chris scoprirono grazie alla segnalazione di un loro grande ammiratore: Jeffrey Lee Pierce, presidente del Blondie Fan Club di LA e futuro leader dei Gun Club. Il secondo brano è uno di quei pezzi che entranno nella storia della musica: il riff di One Way Or Another, ideato dal bassista Nigel Harrison e suonato dall'altro chitarrista, Infante, è uno dei brani con cui Harry ribalta i ruoli tradizionali delle canzoni: oltre allo sfrontato "I'm gonna getcha getcha getcha getcha", la Harry ci racconta di essere stata vittima di stalking da parte di un suo ex-fidanzato. Picture This è l'unico brano scritto dal trio Harry-Stein-Destri (che avevano scritto il precedente Plastic Letters), impreziosito da uno splendido assolo di Infante; anche in questo caso Il testo è particolarmente allusivo ed esplicito, dato che per esempio "I will give you my finest hour/ The one I spent watching you shower" è un capovolgimento dei ruoli, per una volta è la donna a guardare l'uomo, che diventa così l'oggetto sessuale.
Fade Away And Radiate è un grande omaggio all'epopea di Hollywood dei tempi d'oro, con ricordo fiammeggiante di James Dean ("dusty frames that still arrive/ die in 1955") e che parla dell'infatuazione per le star scomparse del cinema. Questa canzone contiene anche una storia autobiografica di Debbie Harry: nata nel 1945, adottata quando aveva pochi mesi da una famiglia del New Jersey, da bambina si era autoconvinta che Marilyn Monroe fosse la sua vera madre. Nel braano è ospite Robert Fripp, con la sua chitarra inconfondibile, e che fu sostenitore della band e con cui suonò in diversi concerti. Pretty Baby è deliziosa gemma pop dal gusto retrò dedicata alla giovanissima Brooke Shields, che nel film omonimo Pretty Baby di Louis Malle comparve nuda in una scena a 11 anni (il film era la storia di una bambina prostituta nella New Orleans di inizio 1900). Sunday Girl, una delle maggiori hit inglesi del 1979, si apre con una quasi impercettibile citazione di Be My Baby delle Ronettes e leggenda vuole che Chris Stein l'abbia scritta per rincuorare una rattristata Debbie in seguito alla scomparsa del loro gatto che si chiamava Sunday Man. Manca un altro brano leggendario: Heart Of Glass nasce nel 1975 con il provvisorio titolo di Once I Had A Love (Aka The Disco Song) e fu proposta dal duo Harry \ Stein a Chapman per finire il disco. Perfetta nel suo ammiccare sia all'elettronica che alla disco, con il meraviglioso lavoro ritmico di Burke, Harrison e Destri, il brano diviene di culto e scaraventa la band al successo globale.
Debbie Harry diviene una icona della musica, e non solo: sex symbol (già modella per Playboy) reciterà in due lavori del regista Amos Poe, Unmade Beds del 1977, sorta di rifacimento di A Bout De Souffle di Godard, e The Foreigner, nel 1978. La band resiste altri due anni, con un buon disco, Eat To The Beast, che ha altre grandiose in Dreaming, Atomic e Union City Blue e nel 1980, con la produzione di Giorgio Moroder, Call Me, colonna sonora di American Gigolo con Richard Gere, li porta al livello più alto di notorietà. Eppure il meccanismo è fragile, complice anche una rara malattia di Stein, che li porta allo scioglimento. Si riformeranno con un certo clamore nel 1999, con No Exit, che frutta un'altra hit mondiale, Maria.
Parallel Lines rimane un disco che raccoglie nel momento giusto certe sensazioni che aleggiavano nell'ambiente musicale: la spinta non più decisiva del punk, i nuovi suoni elettronici e l'arrivo prorompente della disco music. Fu merito di una capacissima cantante bionda ad esprimerlo così bene.
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i am going to assume that my readers are still around and ask, i kind of want to write another 'parallel lines'/'invisible strings' type of fic but it's for muzan.
so... should i?
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When the parallels between Nick's boyfriends are literally parallel.
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