Heart of Glass is a song by Blondie, written by singer Debbie Harry and guitarist Chris Stein. Featured on the bands third studio album, *Parallel Lines* (1978), it was released as the albums third single in January 1979 and topped the charts in several countries, including the United States and the United Kingdom. Debbie Harry and Chris Stein wrote an early version of Heart of Glass, called Once I Had a Love, in 1974–75. This earlier version was initially recorded as a demo in 1975. The song had a slower, funkier sound with a basic disco beat. For this reason it was known as The Disco Song. The song was re-recorded in a second demo with the same title in 1978, when the song was made a bit more pop-oriented. Harry said that Heart of Glass was one of the first songs Blondie wrote, but it was years before we recorded it properly. Wed tried it as a ballad, as reggae, but it never quite worked, and that the lyrics werent about anyone. They were just a plaintive moan about lost love. It was only when the band met with producer Mike Chapman to start work on Parallel Lines that Harry recalled Chapman asked us to play all the songs we had. At the end, he said: Have you got anything else? We sheepishly said: Well, there is this old one. He liked it – he thought it was fascinating and started to pull it into focus.
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