BLONDIE Maria (1999)

YouTube Playlist: 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 charttopper (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: 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 twoCD 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 record br, br,