Blondie - TopPop TV Special 28 August 1978 - TopPop

Опубликовано 11 апреля 2022, 15:36

Denis is the first international hit of American group Blondie. It caused the international break through of the band and reached #1 in the Netherlands and Belgium and #2 in the UK. It was taken from the 1978 album 'Plastic Letters'.
Following the success in the Netherlands the band was invited in the TopPop studios in August 1978 to record a TV special with songs of the follow-up album 'Parallel Lines', Blondie's third and most succesfull album. It was released on September 23, 1978, and reached No. 1 in the United Kingdom in February 1979. The album proved to be the band's commercial breakthrough in the United States where it reached No. 6 in April 1979. The album has sold over 20 million copies worldwide.

Blondie performed this TV Special for TopPop in the TopPop Studios in Hilversum, The Netherlands on 28 August 1978, almost a month before the release of the album!
At the special Debbie Harry and Blondie recorded no less than 8 songs from the album, of which many became big hits, such as: 'Heart Of Glass', 'Hanging On The Telephone' and 'Sunday Girl'.
Also this compilation of the two previous recordings of 'Denis' was recorded at that date.
This is the full performance of the TV show!

Heart Of Glass
Sunday Girl
Picture This
One Way Or Another
Hanging On The Telephone
11.59
Denis
I'm Gonna Love You Too

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Broadcast date:
August 28, 1978

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PO Box 2
1200 JA Hilversum
The Netherlands

TopPop was the first regular dedicated pop music TV show in the Dutch language area. Dutch broadcaster AVRO aired the programme weekly, from 1970 to 1988. Presenter Ad Visser hosted the show for its first fifteen years.
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