One of the first New Wave bands to cross over to huge pop success, Blondie has been the subject of a number of posthumous releases and retrospectives since breaking up. The Platinum Collection is the first serious overview of a band that was groundbreaking in its own trashy, fun way. The Platinum Collection gathers all the hits, most of the better album tracks and a few intriguing rarities.

“He Will Break Your Heart”

A lightly swinging Latin-influenced, almost cha-cha groove and close harmonies decorated Jerry Butler's early soul hit "He Will Break Your Heart," delivering a stately warning that his rival would never love his girl like he did. The melody came to Butler as he was driving on the highway from Atlantic City, New Jersey, to Philadelphia with Curtis Mayfield, and as Butler told Rolling Stone, "I just sang the melody and Curtis put the chords to it." The song's premise, Butler added, "was something that I'd lived ...The lyric was an experience rather than a revelation. Whereas music is usually a revelation."