Old music: Blondie – Heart of Glass

It's easy now to see that when rock and disco clashed, disco won. But records like this suggest we should have realised a whole lot earlier It happened earlier this month as I piloted a tiny rented car across Lanzarote, regaled by the awful playlist of an English-language music station ("Buzz FM – the sound of Lanzarote and Fuerteventura!"). Suddenly, from the turgid fug of Eric Clapton and Toto came this. I almost had to pull over from the renewed shock of the song's sheer brilliance.Of cours...

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