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| Length = 3:54 (Original LP version) 4:33 (Special version) 5:50 (12" version) 4:12 (UK 7" version) 3:22 (US 7" version) | Label = Chrysalis | Writer = | Producer = Mike Chapman | Certification = see below | Last single = "Hanging on the Telephone" (1978) | This single = "Heart of Glass" (1979) | Next single = "Sunday Girl" (1979) | Misc = }} "Heart of Glass" is a song by American new wave band Blondie, written by singer Debbie Harry and guitarist Chris Stein. Featured on the band's third studio album, ''Parallel Lines'' (1978), it was released as the album's third single in January 1979 and topped the charts in several countries, including the United States and the United Kingdom. In December 2004, ''Rolling Stone'' ranked the song number 255 on its list of the 500 greatest songs of all time.〔. ''Rolling Stone''. Retrieved July 12, 2014.〕 It was ranked at number 259 when the list was updated in April 2010. ''Slant Magazine'' placed it at number 42 on their list of the greatest dance songs of all time. Currently, "Heart of Glass" is ranked no. 56 in the UK's official list of biggest selling singles of all-time with sales of 1.3 million copies. ==History== 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 the band referred to it 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. We'd tried it as a ballad, as reggae, but it never quite worked", and that "the lyrics weren't 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."〔 Exactly who decided to give the song a more pronounced disco vibe is subject to differing recollections. On some occasions, the producer Mike Chapman has stated that he convinced Harry and Stein to give the song a disco twist. On other occasions, Chapman has credited Harry with the idea. As a band, Blondie had experimented with disco before, both in the predecessors to "Heart of Glass" and in live cover songs that the band played at shows. Bassist Gary Valentine noted that the set list for early Blondie shows often included disco hits such as "Honey Bee" or "My Imagination". In an interview published in the February 4, 1978 edition of ''NME'', Debbie Harry expressed her affinity for the Euro disco music of Giorgio Moroder, stating that "It's commercial, but it's good, it says something... that's the kind of stuff that I want to do". A notable example of this type of musical experimentation occurred when Blondie covered Donna Summer's "I Feel Love" at the Blitz Benefit on May 7, 1978. In his history of CBGB, music writer Roman Kozak described this event: "When Blondie played for the Johnny Blitz benefit in May, 1978, they surprised everyone with a rendition of Donna Summer's 'I Feel Love'. It was arguably the first time in New York, in the middle of the great rock versus disco split, that a rock band had played a disco song. Blondie went on to record 'Heart of Glass,' other groups recorded other danceable songs, and dance rock was born." In any event, no matter who came up with the idea, the song was ultimately given the disco orientation that made the song one of the best-known Blondie recordings. For the single release the track was remixed by Chapman, with the double-tracked bass drum even more accentuated. In reflecting on the development of "Heart of Glass" from its earliest incarnations until the recorded version on ''Parallel Lines'', Chris Stein noted that the earliest versions had a basic conventional disco beat, but that the recorded version incorporated the electronic sound of Euro disco, stating that "The original arrangement of 'Heart of Glass'—as on the () Betrock demos—had doubles on the high-hat cymbals, a more straight-ahead disco beat. When we recorded it for ''Parallel Lines'' we were really into Kraftwerk, and we wanted to make it more electronic. We weren't thinking disco as we were doing it; we thought it was more electro-European."〔 The ''Parallel Lines'' version (as well as most others) contained some rhythmic features that were very unusual for the disco context, which typically follows a strict four-beats-per-measure pattern for maximum danceability. The instrumental interludes in "Heart of Glass", in contrast, have a beat pattern of 4-3-4-3-4-3-4-4, with eight measures totaling 29 beats instead of the more-standard 32. The song was released in January 1979, and reached number one in both the US and the UK. The UK B-side was "Rifle Range", from Blondie's self-titled debut album, while the US single used the ''Parallel Lines'' track "11:59". ;Mixes The versions appearing on original 7" and 12" singles issued in early 1979 varied from country to country: * Original Album Version – 3:54 * Album Edit – 3:22 * * Used for US/Canada 7" releases * Disco Mix Edit – 4:12 * * Used for UK 7" (though the label incorrectly gives the timing of 3:54, as the original album version). Also used for hits compilations ''The Platinum Collection'', ''Atomic: The Very Best of Blondie'' and 2005's ''Greatest Hits''. * Disco Mix/Album Version No. 2 – 5:50 * * Used for 12" releases and Germany/Netherlands 7" releases; replaced original album version on all future pressings of ''Parallel Lines.'' * Special Mix – 4:33 * * Mix of Disco Version and 12" Instrumental by producer Mike Chapman; mixed for 1981's ''The Best of Blondie'' and remastered for 2002's ''Greatest Hits''. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Heart of Glass (song)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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