Rip Her to Shreds

Infobox Single
Name = Rip Her to Shreds


Artist = Blondie
from Album = Blondie
B-side =
Released = November 1977
Format = 7", 12" vinyl
Recorded = 1976
Genre = New Wave
Length = 3:23
Label = Chrysalis (UK)
Writer = Chris Stein
Deborah Harry
Producer = Richard Gottehrer
Certification =
Chart position = * 81 Australia
Last single = "In the Flesh"
(1977)
This single ="Rip Her To Shreds"
(1977)
Next single = "Denis"
(1977)
Misc = Audiosample
Upper caption = Audio sample
Audio file = BlondieRipHerToShreds.ogg

"Rip Her to Shreds" is a song by American New Wave band Blondie, which features on the band's ,"self-titled debut album" (1976). In 1977, it was the first Blondie single to be released on Chrysalis Records in the UK, although it did not chart. The B-sides to this single were "In the Flesh" and "X-Offender", both previously issued as A-side singles by Private Stock Records, and both moderately successful. As a promotional gimmick the song was also released as a 12" single, selling for 99p.

In Australia, the song "In the Flesh" was played by mistake, instead of "X Offender", on the nationally broadcast music program "Countdown", and was well received by the viewing audience. Chrysalis released the song as a single in Australia, and it quickly reached number two there. Australia was thus the first territory territory where Blondie achieved a hit single, and the album sold well too.

In a BBC Radio documentary about Blondie, Debbie Harry said "Rip Her To Shreds" is about what gossip columns do to people's lives.rf|1|BBC1 "Rip Her To Shreds" was included on Blondie's first 'greatest hits' compilation "The Best of Blondie", released in October 1981.

Chart peaks

Release history

;UK 7", 12" (CHS 2180)
#"Rip Her to Shreds" (Deborah Harry, Chris Stein) – 3:22
#"In the Flesh" (Harry, Stein) – 2:33
# "X-Offender" (Harry, Valentine) – 3:14

Notes

ent|1|BBC1 BBC 6 Music, Friday 31 March 2006, Overnight documentary on Blondie which was a re-airing of an existing BBC radio documentary: "Sunday Girl: The Blondie story", BBC Radio 2, 1999, (first aired 1999/09/18), presented by Toyah Willcox. [http://www.toyahwillcox.com/cv-radio.html]