четверг, 31 июля 2008 г.

Blondie concert in Moscow

The group conducts Blondie tour in honor of the anniversary album "Parallel Lines". The day after the concert in St. Petersburg singer Debbie Harry with his team made in Moscow. Despite the fact that the world tour of rock group announced its intention to write a new album, tour, she has devoted the past shrift. Namely 30 - anniversary of the album "Parallel Lines" - the most commercially successful of their creations.


The team came in August 1974 in New York and the first four years were seen as a local rock-star underground. Attendance changed, yet not established in 1977 in the format sextet. Tangible commercial success came first in Britain, with the output of the third album "Parallel Lines" (1978), for which the team was awarded "Grammy" in the nomination "the best female rock vocal". But this bomb was the third single from the album, "Heart of Glass", recorded in the style of radical disco. He headed the hit parades around the world and became one of the brightest era disco tunes. This was followed by two more charttoppera - "Sunday Girl" and "Atomic".

The increasing commercialization of music Blondie and their transformation from an alternative rock band in the trendy dance team contributed to the public and journalists of all other parties had become obscure aggressively sexual soloist Debbie Harry - is the most blond, which gave the group its name. It is to her attention was riveted spectators at concerts and videos. At the request of the German producer Giorgio Morodera she writes the words on the fashionable dance tune "Call Me", expressed in 1980 in the film "American gigolo" with Richard Gere in the main role. Song "Call Me" for six weeks, The Leader in American pop chart, won the "Golden Globe" as the top song for the film and, according to the magazine Billboard, became the most sold single year in the United States.

November 1980 marked the exit eclectic album Autoamerican, which contained two more superhita - "Tide is High" in the style of reggae and "Rapture" - the first melody with elements of rap, to lead the American hit parade of sales. The next album, The Hunter (1982), has proved quite provalnym in terms of sales, and Deborah took solo career. Meanwhile, the reputation of the team disintegrated in musical circles critics only grew. In 1998, the group came together again to record new album "No Exit". They noted the twentieth anniversary of its first superhita, "Heart of Glass", climb to the top of British charts with fresh track "Maria", thus becoming the only American team achieved first place in Britain in 1970 - e, 1980 - e and 1990 - ies

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