War Child (Blondie song)

Infobox Single
Name = War Child
from Album = The Hunter
B-Side = Little Caesar; 'War Child [Extended Version] '
Type = Single
Artist = Blondie


Format = 7" single, 12" single
Released = 1982
Recorded = 1982
Genre = New Wave
Length = 4:01
Label = flag|UK Chrysalis
Producer = Mike Chapman
Writer = Deborah Harry
Nigel Harrison
Last single = "Island Of Lost Souls"
1982
This single = "War Child"
1982
Next single = "Maria"
1999
Misc = Extra chronology 2
Artist = Debbie Harry singles
Type = Single
Last single = "Chrome"
(1981)
This single =
Next single = "Rush Rush"
(1983)

"War Child" is track number 6 from the 1982 album "The Hunter" by Blondie. The single was never released in the US and it was the lowest ranking non-remixed Blondie single to date in the U.K. at the time, peaking at number 39. It was the last release from the album, and was written by Debbie Harry and Nigel Harrison, who, together also wrote "One Way or Another", from the 1979 album "Parallel Lines". The B-side to this single was "Little Caesar", also from "The Hunter" album.
The 12" single included an extended remix of the track by producer Mike Chapman, which can be found as a bonus track on EMI's 2001 CD re-issue of the album "The Hunter".
Within weeks of the "War Child" single release in the summer of 1982 Blondie cancelled the remaining dates of their "Hunter" world tour (without band member Frank Infante who had already left the group) and shortly thereafter Blondie officially broke up.
The following year Debbie Harry released her first solo single after Blondie as she teamed up with producer Giorgio Moroder again on the track "Rush Rush" from the Al Pacino movie "Scarface". Her second solo album "Rockbird" followed three years later.

Track listing

UK 7" (CHS 2624, July 1982) & 7" Picture Disc (CHSP 2624, July 1982)

#"War Child" (Deborah Harry, Nigel Harrison) - 3:49 audio|Blondie - War Child.ogg|Listen
#"Little Caesar" (Deborah Harry, Chris Stein) - 3:00UK 12" (12 CHS 2624, July 1982)

#"War Child" (12" Mix) (Harry, Harrison) - 8:04
#"Little Caesar" (Harry, Stein) - 3:00

Chart Peaks

Ireland: 21
UK: 39
Australia: 96