What’s the connection between Blondie and William Shakespeare? In 1598, in Act III of Henry V, The Bard wrote the well-known traces “Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more,” referring to the hole within the wall of town of Harfleur. A mere 390 years later, on December 17, 1988, Blondie entered the UK chart with a remix album nodding each to that citation, and to Debbie Harry’s picture, in its title, As soon as Extra Into The Bleach.
That barely painful pun launched an album that was designed by Chrysalis Information on the time to maintain the title of the then-dormant New York band within the hearts and minds of their followers. Blondie had cut up after the 1982 album The Hunter, and have been nonetheless some 9 years away from the reunion that continues to at the present time. Within the absence of any new materials, the label supplied a group of recent and current mixes, of seven Blondie hits and 6 extra solo tracks by Debbie Harry.
The album was launched by the first-ever remix of a Blondie hit, identified on the only as “Denis ’88,” on which their debut UK hit of a decade earlier was reshaped by Dancin’ Danny D. It struggled to No.50 on the British chart, whereas the album entered at an much more modest No.85. The next February a second single, a remix of “Call Me” by Dutch DJ Ben Liebrand, helped the album again into the chart for a brand new No.50 peak.
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Different in-demand mixers of the day reminiscent of Shep Pettibone and the groups of Teddy Riley & Gene Griffin and Bruce Forrest & Frank Heller all made contributions to the remix assortment. So too did Ms. Harry and band/lifemate Chris Stein, with their very own mixture of her solo observe “The Jam Was Moving.”
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