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 from their 1999 album No Exit. This song was Blondie's comeback single; it was 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 had also penned some of their earlier hits, such as "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 containing 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 feat.
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).
The song has been associated with tennis player Maria Sharapova after her 2004 Wimbledon win, and has been used in various montages.
This song has been remade by Kim Ah Joong in S. Korean movie 200 Pounds Beauty and has since become very popular.
[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 |
