On this day in 1978, Blondie released their brilliant third studio album “Parallel Lines” featuring an impressive list of singles including :“Picture This" "I'm Gonna Love You Too" "Hanging on the Telephone" "Heart of Glass" "Sunday Girl" and "One Way or Another".
In 2003, it was ranked at number 140 on Rolling Stone's list of the 500 greatest albums of all time, maintaining the rating in a 2012 revised list; an accompanying essay said the album was "where punk and New Wave broke through to a mass U.S. audience". It has also been placed at number 18 and 45 on NME's 100 Best Albums of All Time (2003) and 500 Greatest Albums of All Time (2013) lists, respectively; number 7 on Blender's 100 Greatest American Albums of All Time; number 94 on Channel 4's 2005 list of the 100 greatest albums of all time; and number 76 on Pitchfork's list of the best albums from the 1970s.