Parallel Lines

Parallel Lines is the third studio album by American new wave band Blondie, released in 1978 by Chrysalis Records. Their most popular and best-selling effort, Parallel Lines was also the first Blondie album to be produced by Mike Chapman. The album reached number one in the United Kingdom in February 1979 and number six in the United States in April 1979.

Overview 

Parallel Lines contains several of Blondie's best-known hits, including "Heart of Glass", "Hanging on the Telephone", "Sunday Girl" and "One Way or Another". Six of the twelve tracks were issued as singles, either in the US or the UK. Named after an unfinished Blondie song, Parallel Lines was ranked at number 140 on Rolling Stone's list of The 500 Greatest Albums of All Time, number eighteen on NMEs 100 Best Albums of All Time, and number seven on Blenders 100 Greatest American Albums of All Time. Parallel Lines has sold over 20 million copies worldwide.

The album was reissued and remastered in 2001 with four bonus tracks. In 2008 it was reissued again as a 30th anniversary deluxe collector's edition, again with four bonus tracks, but not the ones from 2001 edition, and a bonus DVD.

Track listing 

Side one
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
1.	"Hanging on the Telephone"	Jack Lee	2:17
2.	"One Way or Another"	Deborah Harry, Nigel Harrison	3:31
3.	"Picture This"	Harry, Chris Stein, Jimmy Destri	2:53
4.	"Fade Away and Radiate"	Stein	3:57
5.	"Pretty Baby"	Harry, Stein	3:16
6.	"I Know But I Don't Know"	Frank Infante	3:53

Side two
No.	Title	Writer(s)	Length
7.	"11:59"	Destri	3:19
8.	"Will Anything Happen?"	Lee	2:55
9.	"Sunday Girl"	Stein	3:01
10.	"Heart of Glass"	Harry, Stein	3:54
11.	"I'm Gonna Love You Too"	Joe B. Mauldin, Niki Sullivan, Norman Petty	2:03
12.	"Just Go Away"	Harry	3:21