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"Rip Her to Shreds" was included on Blondie's first greatest hits compilation The Best of Blondie, released in October 1981. Two versions of the song are featured in the 2011 film Bridesmaids where the original studio version plays in the opening of the film and the live version plays during the end credits. [9]
Following the US release of The Curse of Blondie the band performed on the A&E Network's Live by Request program on May 7, 2004 in New York City, taking requests via e-mail and phone from fans – and personal friends including film director John Waters.
Through the production of Richard Gottehrer, who had worked with the Angels and other artists of the 1950s and 1960s, much of the music is suffused with the girl group sound of that era. Debbie Harry told an interviewer in 1978 that the band never intended to be retro and when some journalists described them that way, it was "quite a shock". [ 2 ]
During the intro sequence the song "Call Me" is played, making it another music video. "Sunday Girl" (incomplete) is played during the end credits. The Best of Blondie video album was re-released on DVD in 2002 as a part of Greatest Video Hits to coincide with the release of the album Greatest Hits. The songs "Call Me" and "Sunday Girl" were ...
When it reached number two on the Kent Music Report in November 1977, [4] Australia became the first territory in which Blondie achieved a hit single. In Ian Meldrum 's 2014 autobiography, Debbie Harry elaborated saying "We met Ian in 1977... he asked if we had any videos [and] we gave him videos for "X Offender" and "In the Flesh".
Tracks 1, 2, 7, 8, 10 and 12 recorded at Lyceum, London, November 22, 1998, by The BBC Live Music Mobile. Tracks 3, 4, 9, 13, 14 and 17 recorded at House Of Blues, Las Vegas, March 10, 1999. Mobile recording by Westwood One. Track 5 recorded at Town Hall, New York City, February 23, 1999. Recorded by All Mobile Video Truck.
A video collection was also released. It omits " Sunday Girl " and " Rip Her to Shreds " since there are no official promo videos for them, though several tracks not present on the album were included such as Deborah Harry's " Backfired " and "Now I Know You Know" (from her 1981 album KooKoo ), " Free to Fall " (from 1986's Rockbird ), and ...
Atomic: The Very Best of Blondie includes the band's best known songs from the 1970s and 1980s, as well as two new remixes of the title track. The compilation reached number 12 on the UK Albums Chart and has been certified platinum by the British Phonographic Industry (BPI).