On September 23, 1978, Blondie released their new and awaited studio album "Parallel lines". However, the promotional tour had already started a month earlier in London, Europe on August 24 and continued through Sweden, Norway, Holland, Belgium, Scotland, Germany, Switzerland, France to finish, after 26 concerts where they had started, in U.K on November 10 with a big success.
Three days later the new North American tour began at Hollywood and Main, Flushing, NY, while the third single:"Hanging on the phone", went straight to the top
During the "Parallel lines" tour, a team sent by the famous radio program: "The King Biscuit Flower Hour", recorded with a mobile unit a concert in Philadelphia on December 6, 1978 to be broadcast a few weeks later. The success of that emission, made that the radio station asked again for permission to record another concert, this time on the summer tour, at the second American leg. Dallas was the site chosen.
“The King Biscuit Flower Hour• was an American radio program presented by Bill Minkin, broadcasted on Sunday nights from 1973 until 1993, that featured concert performances by various artists and Rock Bands. The emission continued from 1994 until 2005, but with old programs.
Time after Chrysalis Records requested the masters tapes of both concerts to set up a live album whose publication date, in principle, would be February, 1980 with the provisional name of: "Blondie Live!"., whose result was:
Side A: (21:29)
1.- Showtime.(1:00)
2.- Dreaming.(3:07)
3.- X Offender.(2:57)
4.- Hanging On The Phone.(2:17)
5.- Detroit 442.(2:34)
6.- Picture This.(2:49)
7.- Sunday Girl.(3:35)
8.- Denis.(3:07)
2.- Dreaming.(3:07)
3.- X Offender.(2:57)
4.- Hanging On The Phone.(2:17)
5.- Detroit 442.(2:34)
6.- Picture This.(2:49)
7.- Sunday Girl.(3:35)
8.- Denis.(3:07)
Side B: (21:34)
1.- Heart Of Glass. (6:20)
2.- A Shark In Jets Clothing. (2:32)
3.- Band intro
4.- I Know But I Don´t Know.(4:25)
5.- One Way Or Another.(6:47)
2.- A Shark In Jets Clothing. (2:32)
3.- Band intro
4.- I Know But I Don´t Know.(4:25)
5.- One Way Or Another.(6:47)
But in its place Chrysalis Records published better the single "Atomic / Die Young Stay Pretty".and "Blondie live!" was momentarily archived. The company executives decided to publish "Blondie Live!" Bit.ly/81bLlD at the end of the "Autoamerican" tour.,whose last concert was at Arena di Verona, Verona, Italy on September 21.1980, but the band went into a severe crisis, partly by the frenetic pace of work that they had since years ago. In view of this;,with the convincement that the group would dissolve soon, they changed the plans and published: "The Best of Blondie",on October 31 instead of "Blondie Live!".
Blondie took to the market their last album: "The Hunter" on May 1982, after which they decided to take a break from their musical activity, too much long, because it took them almost two decades to return in February 1999. Their last concert from this first part since its foundation on 1974 as "New Wave" band, was in Philadelphia at JFK Stadium on August 21.1982.
The master tapes slept into the archives for years, until 1996, when this unreleased work were revised by the producer Cheryl Pawelski, who redesigned the original project expanding it from 11 to 15 songs, for a commemorative limited edition re-named as: "Picture This Live", and only for United States. One year after for Europe as: Blondie Live! Philadelphia & Dallas.
Enjoy it, and see you son.
