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April’s music losses include Blondie drummer Clem Burke, music producer Roy Thomas Baker, Nino Tempo, and more ...
Blondie drummer Clem Burke has died at 70 after being diagnosed with cancer. Debbie Harry and Chris Stein shared the news of his death on that band's Facebook page on Monday, April 7.
Clem Burke, whose versatile drumming propelled the iconic rock group Blondie during its decades performing everything from ...
Clem Burke, drummer for Rock and Roll Hall of Fame act Blondie for their entire 50-year existence, has died at age 70, after ...
Clem Burke, a renowned percussionist best known for his role as the drummer for New Wave sensation Blondie, has died, a rep ...
Punk rock is an attitude, and the essence of that attitude is: ‘give us some truth’.” Why, then, do some categorise Blondie the same way? The context from which the whole punk idea emerged is as ...
Forty-six years ago today, Blondie went to No. 1 on the Hot 100 with a song they recorded to add "diversity" to their album.
Blondie emerged from the CBGB punk scene, but they were perhaps closer to a new wave band. Debbie Harry and Chris Stein were desperate to have fun ...
The members of Blondie are mourning the loss of one of their own, with the passing of one of the band's original members, Clem Burke. The drummer died from cancer on April 6 at the age of 70. Clem was ...
Clem Burke, the drummer for 1970s new wave band Blondie, has died aged 70 following a "private battle with cancer", the ...
Debbie, Chris, and the entire Blondie family." Burke's drumming career kickstarted in the late 1960s when he performed with New Jersey's Bayonne. After moving to New York in 1975, he joined the first ...
“Clem was not just a drummer; he was the heartbeat of Blondie,” the band’s official social media shared on Monday. By Lexy Perez, Roy Trakin Clem Burke, famed drummer for Blondie, died Sunda ...