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Blondie

BLONDIE

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

Deborah Harry

Clem Burke

Clem Burke

Jimmy Destri

Jimmy Destri

Nigel Harrison

Nigel Harrison

Frank Infante

Frank Infante

Chris Stein

Chris Stein

Gary Valentine

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.

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Class of 2006
no bling, no flash, no ego - they truly are a rare breed.
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