Parallel Lines

This article is about the Blondie album. For the geometry term, see Parallel (geometry). For other uses, see Parallel Lines (disambiguation).

Parallel Lines
The band members of Blondie standing behind a black and white wall. Debbie Harry (standing center right, with her clenched hands on her hips) is seen wearing a white dress while the rest of the band wears business suits with a black tie.
Studio album by
Blondie
ReleasedSeptember 8, 1978
RecordedJune–July 1978
StudioRecord Plant (New York City)
Genre
Length39:06
LabelChrysalis
ProducerMike Chapman
Blondie chronology
Plastic Letters
(1978) 		Parallel Lines
(1978) 		Eat to the Beat
(1979)
Singles from Parallel Lines
  1. "Picture This"
    Released: August 1978
  2. "I'm Gonna Love You Too"
    Released: September 1978
  3. "Hanging on the Telephone"
    Released: November 1978[1]
  4. "Heart of Glass"
    Released: January 1979
  5. "Sunday Girl"
    Released: May 1979 (UK)
  6. "One Way or Another"
    Released: May 1979 (US)

Parallel Lines is the third studio album by American rock band Blondie, released on September 8, 1978,[2] by Chrysalis Records. An instant critical and commercial success, the album reached No. 1 on the UK Albums Chart in February 1979 and proved to be the band's commercial breakthrough in the United States, where it reached No. 6 on the Billboard 200 in April 1979. In Billboard magazine, Parallel Lines was listed at No. 9 in its top pop albums year-end chart of 1979. The album spawned several successful singles, notably the international hit "Heart of Glass".

  1. ^ Strong, Martin Charles (1995). The Great Rock Discography. Canongate Press. p. 71. ISBN 9780862415419.
  2. ^ "Music Week" (PDF). p. 50.