To: DallasBiff
There are musical purists who say Blondie jumped the shark with this song. That they sold out and went commercial. I dont care either way, just noting it as music history.
CC
2 posted on
11/13/2021 1:53:19 PM PST by
Celtic Conservative
(My cats are more amusing than 200 channels worth of TV.)
To: Celtic Conservative
That they sold out and went commercial.
I knew someone who managed a nightclub in NYC in that era, and I asked him if all the punkers and New Wavers believed their own Schtick. He said, "None of them, except the Talking Heads." He also predicted that Deborah Harry would be dead from substance abuse before she hit 35, so he was wrong about that.
This pretense that the punkers and hard rockers of the era were driven primarily by a higher sense of "Art" is silly. You may as well say Virgil went commercial because the Aeneid was a commissioned work.
4 posted on
11/13/2021 1:59:19 PM PST by
Dr. Sivana
("There are only men and women."-- George Gilder, Sexual Suicide, 1973)
To: Celtic Conservative
This is Debbie Harry on Coney Island. About two years before she became a household word with "Heart of Glass".
5 posted on
11/13/2021 2:02:25 PM PST by
SamAdams76
(I am 18 days away from outliving Holly Dunn)
To: Celtic Conservative
Blondie jumped the shark with this song How so? They had far more hit singles after Heart of Glass than before it.
30 posted on
11/13/2021 3:51:38 PM PST by
Kazan
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