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Parallel Lines

Artist Blondie Released 1978 Type album

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Third of the ten Blondie records held here. It came four years into a run that began in 1974. 1978 is also the year this tree dates New wave from. It is one of the four records New wave is listed as starting from.

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Parallel Lines is the third studio album by American rock band Blondie, released on September 8, 1978, 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".

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