Blondie / Glasgow 1979 Japanese Broadcast / 1DVDR

Blondie / Glasgow 1979 Japanese Broadcast / 1DVDR / Non label

Live At Apollo Theatre, Glasgow Scotland 31st December 1979. Pro-shot

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BLONDIE in 1979 was proud of the huge popularity of Britain beyond his home country, sending his masterpieces “PARALLEL LINES” and “EAT TO THE BEAT” to No. 1 in the UK in quick succession. A special version of the large classic video that you can witness the heyday is decided to be a gift release.
The feature of this work is “December 31, 1979 Glasgow Performance”. It is a multi-camera pro shot of the countdown live performed in the UK at the height of popularity. Speaking of the “EAT TO THE BEAT” era, the main performance of the official live album “PICTURE THIS LIVE” in Dallas and the popular sound board “LONDON 1980: Pre-FM VINYLS (Uxbridge 1310)” Familiar. In order to sort out such situations, let’s look back on the tour schedule at that time and confirm the position of the show.

● 1979
“May-June” EAT TO THE BEAT “production”
・ June 27-August 26: North America # 1 (44 performances) ← * Official PICTURE THIS LIVE
“September 28,” EAT TO THE BEAT “released”
・ October 4th-13th / December 15th: North America # 2 (4 performances)
・ December 25-31: Europe # 1a (5 performances) ← ★ Coco ★
● 1980
・ January 1-2: Europe # 1b (18 performances) ← * LONDON 1980
・ March 7-22: North America # 3 (3 performances)
・ June 25 + September 21: Europe # 2 (2 performances)
“November” AUTOAMERICAN “released”

This is the process from the completion of “EAT TO THE BEAT” to “AUTOAMERICAN”. “EAT TO THE BEAT” was released near the end of the US tour, and it was time to invade the UK at the end of the year. The Glasgow performance of this work was such a live on New Year’s Eve, and it was a concert about two weeks before “LONDON 1980: Pre-FM VINYLS”.
Such a show was broadcast on TV and reigned as a major staple among the classics that convey the golden age from ancient times. This work is the Japanese broadcast version, which is the highest version. The source of this work is the famous program “Golden Western Music Live” of a certain broadcasting association that was broadcast in 2006. This week, the program’s ROXY MUSIC special feature “STOCKHOLM 1976: JAPANESE BROADCAST” will be released at the same time, but in reality, this work and ROXY MUSIC are a coupling broadcast. This work is one edited only for BLONDIE.
And the origin of the highest peak is quality. Since there is only the 2006 version, both broadcasting and recording are digital, and from the station master to this work, it is made into a DVD without deterioration. The beauty of the image and the sound of the sound board are wonderful, with no words other than “completely official grade”. What is drawn with the highest quality with “super” is the concentration reduction of the blockbuster works “PARALLEL LINES” and “EAT TO THE BEAT”. This video has 11 songs (+ α), which is about half of all 21 songs set on the day, but it is beautifully divided into two parts.

● Love Heartbeat (6 songs in the first half)
・ Dreaming / Slow Motion / Shayla (★) / Union City Blue (★) / Atomic (★) / Eat To The Beat (★)
● Parallel lines of love (5 songs in the second half)
・ Picture This / Pretty Baby (★) / Heart Of Glass / Hanging On The Telephone / Sunday Girl
* Note: “★” marks are songs that could not be heard in “PICTURE THIS LIVE”.

… And it looks like this. As a matter of fact, songs not recorded in “PICTURE THIS LIVE” can be heard in “LONDON 1980: Pre-FM VINYLS”, so this work is rather concentrated. The latest hits of the time, such as “Dreaming,” “Heart Of Glass,” and “Hanging On The Telephone,” are also available (by the way, only these three songs are covered by the official video work “LIVE!” It’s a show that feels like “a compressed version of the two great masterpieces you see.”
Although the highest quality version of such a stage is full, this work also has its own production unique to Japanese broadcasting. At our shop, we are archiving a number of music programs with the finest masters by domestic core record enthusiasts, but “Golden Western Music Live” is the standard. To the last, it is wonderful to make the best use of the live itself and the music itself, and then casually create a unique program with a good taste. There are two contents, one is subtitles after Japan. Not only the Japanese translation of the inter-song MC, but also the names of each member and the song title / composition credits are complete. In addition, each song comes with a brief commentary, and the songs that you have forgotten are revived quickly, and you will not get bored with the unexpected chart results of the hit songs.
And another original production is the solution corner before and after the stage. This program is in charge of commentary with guests associated with the band every time, but since this work was a special feature of coupling with ROXY MUSIC, a certain music critic “Kon-chan” who is also dead now navigates. Since only the comments about BLONDIE have been cut out and edited, it may be a little fragmented, but he will explain with a nostalgic narrative such as the band history and the visual concept of the stage.
It is a video masterpiece that you can enjoy the shining stage of the golden age with the complete official quality of Bikabika. A semi-official piece that is fully equipped with a variety of post-Japanese subtitles and commentary corners, and realizes the delusion that “if the Japanese version is released as an official work …”. Please enjoy it carefully.

大代表作『PARALLEL LINES』『EAT TO THE BEAT』を立て続けに全英１位に送り込み、母国を越える絶大なイギリス人気を誇っていた1979年のBLONDIE。その全盛の姿を目撃できる大定番映像の特別版がギフト・リリース決定です。
そんな本作にフィーチュアされているのは「1979年12月31日グラスゴウ公演」。人気絶頂の英国で行われたカウントダウン・ライヴのマルチカメラ・プロショットです。『EAT TO THE BEAT』時代と言えば、公式ライヴアルバム『PICTURE THIS LIVE』のメインだったダラス公演や、当店でも人気の大定番サウンドボード『LONDON 1980: Pre-FM VINYLS（Uxbridge 1310）』でもお馴染み。そうした状況を整理する意味でも、当時のツアースケジュールを振り返ってショウのポジションを確かめてみましょう。

●1979年
《５月-６月『EAT TO THE BEAT』制作》
・６月27日-８月26日：北米#1（44公演）←※公式PICTURE THIS LIVE
《９月28日『EAT TO THE BEAT』発売》
・10月４日-13日／12月15日：北米#2（４公演）
・12月25日-31日：欧州#1a（５公演）←★ココ★
●1980年
・１月１日-22日：欧州#1b（18公演）←※LONDON 1980
・３月７日-22日：北米#3（３公演）
・６月25日＋９月21日：欧州#2（２公演）
《11月『AUTOAMERICAN』発売》

これが『EAT TO THE BEAT』完成から『AUTOAMERICAN』までの歩み。全米ツアーも終盤に差し掛かったところで『EAT TO THE BEAT』が発売され、年末になっていよいよ英国侵攻。本作のグラスゴウ公演は、そんな大晦日のライヴであり、『LONDON 1980: Pre-FM VINYLS』の約２週間前となるコンサートでした。
そんなショウはTV放送され、古くから黄金時代を伝える定番中の大定番として君臨。本作は、その最高峰版となる日本放送バージョンなのです。本作のソースとなっているのは、2006年に放送された某放送協会の名物番組“黄金の洋楽ライブ”。今週は同番組のROXY MUSIC特集『STOCKHOLM 1976: JAPANESE BROADCAST』も同時リリースとなりますが、実は本作とROXY MUSICはカップリング放送。本作はBLONDIE篇のみ編集された１枚なのです。
そして、最高峰の由来となるのは何と言ってもクオリティ。2006年版だけあって放送も録画もデジタルであり、局マスターから本作まで劣化ナシでDVD化。その映像美もサウンドボード音声も「完全オフィシャル級」以外の言葉がない素晴らしさです。その「超」付き極上クオリティで描かれるのは、大ヒット作『PARALLEL LINES』『EAT TO THE BEAT』の濃縮還元。この映像は11曲（＋α）で当日セット全21曲の約半分なのですが、綺麗に二分割構成になっている。

●恋のハートビート（前半６曲）
・Dreaming／Slow Motion／Shayla（★）／Union City Blue（★）／Atomic（★）／Eat To The Beat（★）
●恋の平行線（後半５曲）
・Picture This／Pretty Baby（★）／Heart Of Glass／Hanging On The Telephone／Sunday Girl
※注：「★」印は『PICTURE THIS LIVE』で聴けなかった曲。

……と、このようになっています。実のところ、『PICTURE THIS LIVE』未収録の曲は『LONDON 1980: Pre-FM VINYLS』で聴けたりしますので、むしろ本作は濃縮感の方が美味しい。「Dreaming」「Heart Of Glass」「Hanging On The Telephone」といった当時の最新ヒットも取りそろえ（ちなみに、黄金時代の公式映像作『LIVE!』と被っているのはこの３曲だけです）、「目で見る２大名盤の圧縮版」といった感じのショウなのです。
そんなステージの最高峰クオリティ版だけでもお腹いっぱいですが、本作には日本放送ならではの独自演出もある。当店では国内のコアな記録マニアによる極上マスターで音楽番組の数々をアーカイヴしておりますが、“黄金の洋楽ライブ”はその定番。あくまでもライヴそのもの、音楽そのものを最大限に活かした上でさり気なくセンスの良い番組独自演出が素晴らしいのです。その中身は２つあり、１つは日本後字幕。曲間MCの和訳はもちろんの事、各メンバーの名前や曲名／作曲クレジットを完備。さらに１曲１曲に寸評解説まで付き、忘れていた曲がスッと甦り、ヒット曲の意外なチャート成績などで飽きさせないのです。
そして、もう１つの独自演出がステージ前後の解コーナー。この番組は毎回バンドにちなんだゲストを迎えて解説を担当していますが、本作はROXY MUSICとのカップリング特集だったので同じく今は亡き某音楽評論家「コンちゃん」がナビゲート。BLONDIEについてのコメントのみ切り取り編集されているのでやや細切れ感もありますが、バンド・ヒストリーやステージのヴィジュアル・コンセプトなど、懐かしい語り口で解説してくれます。
黄金時代の輝くステージをビッカビカの完全オフィシャル級クオリティで楽しめる映像傑作です。さらに多彩な日本後字幕や解説コーナーまで完備し、「もし、オフィシャル作品化されて日本盤が出たなら……」という妄想を実現している準オフィシャルな１枚。どうぞ、じっくりとお楽しみください。

(41:12)
1. Intro / MC Talk
2. Dreaming
3. Slow Motion
4. Shayla
5. Union City Blue
6. Atomic
7. Eat To The Beat
8. Picture This
9. Pretty Baby
10. Heart Of Glass
11. Hanging On The Telephone
12. Bug Pipes & Drums ←　演奏のみ
13. Sunday Girl
14. MC Talk

Deborah Harry – vocals
Chris Stein – guitar
Frank Infante – guitar
Nigel Harrison – bass
Jimmy Destri – keyboards
Clem Burke – drums

PRO-SHOT COLOUR NTSC Approx.41min.