𝗕𝗟𝗢𝗡𝗗𝗜𝗘 𝙈𝙖𝙧𝙞𝙖 1999

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• 𝘾𝙇𝘼𝙎𝙎𝙄𝘾🔞 • Maria is a 1999 song by American band Blondie. Taken from their album No Exit, it was the band's first new material since 1982. Maria reached number one in the United Kingdom; Blondie's sixth UK chart-topper (and their first since 1980). • Maria was written by the band's keyboardist Jimmy Destri, who had penned some of their earlier hits such as Atomic . A line from the song: ...like a millionaire/walking on imported air , was used in the previous Blondie track Walk Like Me (also written by Destri) from the album Autoamerican (1980). • In the United Kingdom, Maria was released as a two-CD set, the first containing remixes of the song, and the second containing live versions of Screaming Skin (a track from the No Exit album), and their first hit single In the Flesh . Both were recorded during Blondie's No Exit Tour. The song gave Blondie their sixth UK number-one single (and their first chart-topper in 18 years, after The Tide Is High in November 1980). Topping the singles chart in February 1999, the release of Maria came exactly 20 years after Heart of Glass , Blondie's first number-one hit. • Maria also topped the charts in Greece and Spain, and was a top 10 hit in Austria, Belgium, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Sweden and Switzerland. In the U.S., however, Maria was not a successful hit for the band, stalling at number 82 on the Billboard Hot 100, but it did reach number 14 on the Adult Top 40 listing. • The song was included on the 2014 compilation album Greatest Hits Deluxe Redux. The compilation was part of a two-disc set titled Blondie 4(0) Ever, which included Ghosts of Download, their tenth studio album, and marked the 40th anniversary of the band's formation. • The music video for Maria was directed by Roman Coppola (credited as Alan Smithee), and is set in New York City. Parts of New York through night-vision goggles are seen before zooming into an apartment where Blondie are performing the song. Mysterious dark-clothed individuals are seen around different buildings setting up surveillance equipment to monitor the band. Toward the end of the video, one of the dark-clothed individuals aims a sniper rifle towards lead singer Deborah Harry, and fires a bullet at her. In slow motion, the bullet smashes through a window, a light bulb and the microphone towards her, but Harry (moving in real time) simply plucks the bullet from the air before it hits her (perhaps tying into the theme of no exit , the band's comeback album).

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