Once i had a love and it was a gas soon turned out had a heart of glass seemed like the real thing. Herzog placed his entire cast in a hypnotic trance state for this fable of a herdsmans visions of the future and a village going insane after its glass factory loses the formula for its fabulous. If so, does it then become transformed into a moving work of art. The video for the song was filmed near slough, berkshire, during november 1981 and has the theme of the filming and editing of a murdermystery film, featuring the band members as.
Released in january 1979, topped the charts in several countries, incl. Official video of blondie performing heart of glass from the album parallel lines. Blondie heart of glass official music video youtube. In a film set entirely in a bavarian village around 1800, it foresees the wars and calamities of the next two centuries and extends on into the 21st with humanitys nightfall.
Blondie rates highly as the single most popular and successful group to emerge from the 1970s new york city punknew wave music. Blondie release a 6lp vinyl boxset on december 1, so we thought wed dig out this great piece from the uncut archives august 2008, take 5, in which debbie harry, chris stein, clem burke and. Heart of glass could stand as the archetype of the socalled pretentious european cinema, you know, the kind you would have seen mike meyers make fun of in his sprockets sketches on snl. Blondie heart of glass parallel lines 1978 blondie s back live concert at the town hall 1999, new york city deborah harry vocals chris stein guitar jimmy destri keyboards, synthesizer. Our new desktop experience was built to be your music destination. Heart of glass is one of werner herzogs least accessible films, but of all his works, this isnt one to take apart rationally. In fact, i dont know of anything that comes even close to heart of glass in its pretentions. Blondie heart of glass parallel lines 1978 blondies back live concert at the town hall 1999, new york city deborah harry vocals chris stein guitar jimmy destri keyboards, synthesizer. With blondie, clem burke, nigel harrison, debbie harry. In the new tv adaptation of margaret atwoods classic novel the handmaids tale, one key scene is soundtracked by philip glass and blondie. Emerging from the midseventies new york punk rock movement, blondies mix of punk ethos, glorious melodies and the iconic figure of debbie harry took them t. Based on bavarian folklore, it concerns a town famous for its beautiful ruby glass. Of course, its more or less universally established these days that blondie were one of the greatest of all pop bands, but heart of glass, which id somehow managed to not hear for several years.
Hias the shepherd in heart of glass werner herzogs heart of glass 1976 is a vision of mans future as desolation. Blondie went on to record heart of glass, other groups recorded other danceable songs, and dance rock was born. Heres that philip glass blondie mashup from the handmaid. Blondie heart of glass 1999 nyc live video hq youtube. Once i had a love and it was a gas soon turned out had a heart of glass seemed like the real thing, only to find mucho mistrust, loves gone behind once i had a love. Heart of glass was one of the first songs blondie wrote, but it.
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