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 The arps
 The Ennio Morricone guitar
+This sounds like a band having an intense argument. Is it major or minor? Is it disco, punk or spaghetti western?
+It underscores an important point: GREAT ART COMES FROM CONFLICT.
+What do we know about Eat to the Beat?
+*Blondie were under pressure to follow the massive ''crossover'' success of ''Parallel Lines''. Pop producer Mike Chapman worked with the band for the first time and
+*Now, crossovers bring conflict: Blondie started life as a punk band in CBGB, with the Ramones, Patti Smith, Talking Heads and Television. ''Parallel Lines'' was a much more pop-oriented record, with knockout singles like ''Sunday Girl'', ''Picture This'', ''One Way Or Another'' and ''Hanging on the Telephone'' barely having so much as a rock edge let alone a punk one. And, of course, the breakout single was Heart of Glass, which was out-and-out ''disco''.
+*You get the sense that Clem Burke wasn’t wildly happy about this
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