Maria (Blondie song)
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| "Maria" | ||
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| Single by Blondie | ||
| from the album No Exit | ||
| B-side(s) | Screaming Skin | |
| Released | 1999 | |
| Format | CD Single | |
| Recorded | 1998 | |
| Genre | Pop/Rock | |
| Length | 4:12 | |
| Label | Epic | |
| Writer(s) | Jimmy Destri | |
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| Blondie singles chronology | ||
| "War Child" (1982) |
Maria (1999) |
"Nothing Is Real But The Girl" (1999) |
"Maria" is a song by Blondie. It is on the 1999 album No Exit. This song was Blondie's comeback single: the first release from the band since "War Child" in July 1982. It was also the first U.K. number 1 for the band since "The Tide Is High" in November 1980, and coincidentally, topped the charts exactly twenty years after their first UK chart-topper, Heart of Glass in 1979. The song was written by Jimmy Destri, who has also penned some of their earlier hits, like "Atomic". To this date this is the last single to reach number 1 from the band. The single was released as a 2 CD set, the first containing remixes of "Maria", and the second contained album track "Screaming Skin" and a live version of "In the Flesh". When the song reached No. 1 in the UK on February 1999, Debbie Harry, who was then 53 became the oldest female singer to achieve that.
The line "...like a Millionaire/walking on imported air" was used in a previous Blondie song, "Walk Like Me" (also written by Destri) from the album, Autoamerican (1980).
[edit] Single covers
 CD1 cover |
 CD2 cover |
| Preceded by: "U Don't Know Me" by Armand Van Helden & Duane Harden |
UK Singles Chart Number 1 single February 7, 1999 for 1 week |
Succeeded by: "Fly Away" by Lenny Kravitz |
