To drive home the cinematic parallel, the album offers two different endings, like the film "Sliding Doors".
It's difficult to see the cover of 1978's Parallel Lines album without thinking, yes, that's what a pop group should look like.
This is the shoe worn by Debbie Harry on the cover of Blondie's album "Parallel Lines".
And then, with the release of the album Parallel Lines in 1978, she was suddenly famous, at a time when it was still relatively unusual for a woman to front a rock band.
The group have recorded a version of Blondie track One Way Or Another, which featured on hit album Parallel Lines, with the song segueing into Undertones single Teenage Kicks.
(Amanda Petrusich) BLONDIE (Sunday) Blondie, a pioneer of New York's famed, late 1970s new-wave scene, is touring to commemorate the 30th anniversary of its most successful album, "Parallel Lines" (Chrysalis), which spawned the singles "Heart of Glass," "One Way or Another" and "Hanging on the Telephone".
A year before Parallel Lines, the album containing Heart of Glass, the Rolling Stones topped the US charts with Miss You, while the Bee Gees announced their disco-fuelled imperial era in 1975 with Jive Talkin', followed of course by the globe-conquering Saturday Night Fever.
I don't know if my kind of life actually existed when I was a child". Watch Blondie perform their 1979 hit, One Way or Another, from the album Parallel Lines.
He drew a parallel between the album's political themes and that of Orwell's Animal Farm.
David Turner of Spin said, "Kanye's My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy is an immediate parallel to this album of relationship struggle and soul-searching, and while Sean obviously lacks his mentor's star power or ambition, he shows more heart than he typically gets credit for".
Blondie The albums Parallel Lines and its follow-up Eat To The Beat were pinnacles of pop art new wave.
