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quoted from the book 'Deborah Harry: Platinum Blonde - A Portrait By Cathay Che' - 1999
"After the record was finished, tensions remained among the Blondie members, as much so that Leeds says he was forced to come up with a design for cover art that would allow the Blondie band members to be photographed separately. Leeds says, 'I knew I couldn't put them in a photo session together and get a useable photo, so I came up with the Parallel Lines album cover, each of them on their own black or white stripe so that we could take the pictures individually. I came up with that idea and it became and award-winning cover. Somewhere in a file, is my original drawing.' Unfortunately, the cover for Parallel Lines, which was named after a song Blondie never finished about 'communications, characterizations and the eventual meeting of different influences', remains another sore point for Harry and Stein. The concept was explained to them differently and they never agreed to the idea that all the boys should smile while Harry remained icy. Harry and Stein maintain that they were asked to pick pictures of themselves from the shot that they liked to be considered for the cover, and Leeds went ahead and used ones they'd rejected."
quoted from the 'Platinum Collection' booklet - 1994
Clem Burke: Mike would be in the studio with us and he would physically conduct the band.
Jimmy Destri: Parallel Lines was a new start for the band. Chapman was responsible for it. He taught us how to be a recording band. We weren't used to doing more than two or three takes on a track. It was also the first time we used click tracks.
