YEAR
2006
INDUCTED BY
Shirley Manson
CATEGORY
Performers
The vanguard of the new wave.
Blondie have experimented with nearly every genre on record—reggae, rap, punk, disco, etc. Yet their willingness to experiment is anchored by their roots in tuneful Sixties pop.
Deborah Harry
Clem Burke
Jimmy Destri
Nigel Harrison
Frank Infante
Chris Stein
Gary Valentine
HALL OF FAME
ESSAY
By Barbara O'Dair
A Blondie classic is hard to characterize.
The group has produced both hits and experiments in multiple musical genres to dizzying and dazzling effect – raw punk gems; goofy homages to girl groups, comics, and B films; hard, fast rock; and gorgeous melanges of disco, rap and techno pop.
“Hanging on the Telephone,” “One Way or Another,” “Heart of Glass,” “Call Me,” “Rapture” — the songs that charted in the U.S. or U.K. were staggeringly different from one other.
