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RIP Clem Burke

Algarveaddick
Algarveaddick Posts: 21,186
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The brilliant drummer who came to fame with Blondie has died from cancer aged 70. RIP Clem. 
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  • RalphMilnesgut
    RalphMilnesgut Posts: 1,751
    Sad news
  • Chizz
    Chizz Posts: 28,354
    Oh no. Brilliant drummer. Enormous consumer of hairspray. Clem Burke was probably the most British drummer not to have come from the UK. 
  • CafcWest
    CafcWest Posts: 6,186
    edited April 7
    Sad news.  Another from my youth gone!  RIP.  Always think of him as Blondie's drummer but had a really diverse drumming career.  As per Wikipedia.
  • Bilko
    Bilko Posts: 768
    Bloody Hell RIP.
  • charlton4ever
    charlton4ever Posts: 1,731
    Remember buying "Denis/Contact in Red Square/Kung Fu Girls" and playing it on repeat. Parallel Lines is still a great listen. Thank you Clem and RIP.
  • bristoladdick
    bristoladdick Posts: 1,150
    Sad news. RIP Clem.
  • eastterrace6168
    eastterrace6168 Posts: 22,831
    RIP Clem...
    This is terrible news...an absolute icon as regards drumming and such a huge driving force behind Blondie...so sad but great memories...
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEqXgPtbQ6w

  • paulbaconsarnie
    paulbaconsarnie Posts: 9,427
    Was only a month or 2 ago when the Jams drummer passed away that I was talking to a mate and said I thought the drumming in blondies ‘dreaming’ as being the lead instrument in that track, something not very common.
    RIP
  • Hal1x
    Hal1x Posts: 4,265
    edited April 7
    Bloody hell thats an awful shock! He was one of the driving forces in Blondie and one of the few not to fall out with Debbie Harry.

    RIP
  • Henry Irving
    Henry Irving Posts: 85,290
    RIP

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  • hoof_it_up_to_benty
    hoof_it_up_to_benty Posts: 22,488
    Outstanding drummer with great head of hair. RIP
  • soapy_jones
    soapy_jones Posts: 21,395
    RIP
  • HardyAddick
    HardyAddick Posts: 1,638
    Sad unexpected news. Great drummer 
  • SouthallAddick
    SouthallAddick Posts: 140
    I saw him do a smashing-up-the-drum-kit tribute to Keith Moon, at Blondie's Hammersmith Odeon gig two days after Moon died in 1978.  RIP
  • Covered End
    Covered End Posts: 52,067
    RIP Clem, I took my wife to see Blondie (she was a big fan) a few times.
  • stonemuse
    stonemuse Posts: 34,069
    Great drummer great band … RIP
  • Hal1x
    Hal1x Posts: 4,265
    Also was the Eurythmics drummer for a while.
  • KBslittlesis
    KBslittlesis Posts: 8,661
    Very very sad.
    RIP 😢
  • Horsfield9
    Horsfield9 Posts: 3,082
    RIP 
  • SuedeAdidas
    SuedeAdidas Posts: 7,760
    stonemuse said:
    Great drummer great band … RIP
    ….great Barnet. 

    RIP

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  • bigstemarra
    bigstemarra Posts: 5,098
    Great character, great drummer.

    RIP
  • ElfsborgAddick
    ElfsborgAddick Posts: 29,200
    edited April 8
    So sad.

    He WAS Blondie as far as I'm concerned.

    I saw them play a few times, he was fantastic.

    Sleep well.
  • Pedro45
    Pedro45 Posts: 5,843
    An excellent and awe inspiring drummer who was very underrated.  I met him at a party in the late eighties and he was very happy to chat.  RIP Clem
  • AddicksAddict
    AddicksAddict Posts: 15,838
    RIP

    From Hugh Cornwell. https://www.facebook.com/100044534555121/posts/1238335790994228/?mibextid=rS40aB7S9Ucbxw6v
  • Big William
    Big William Posts: 3,849
    edited April 8
    Someone whose name always comes up when I ask drummers I know who they respect, and looking online today loads of musicians saying the same. 
    Just feast on this, ignore Debbie Harry (for once) and enjoy a force of nature in action.

    RIP Clem.


    https://youtu.be/TU3-lS_Gryk?si=ay8dj0be_cNdLWrt



  • Algarveaddick
    Algarveaddick Posts: 21,186
    One second in on the video, That's Danny B. Harvey, Levi Dexter and Stephen "Smutty" Smith from Levi and the Rockats sat on the scaffolding doing the hand-jive. I don't know Danny, but Smutty and Levi both payed lovely tributes to Clem on Facebook.  
  • Hal1x
    Hal1x Posts: 4,265
    edited April 10
    Big William said:
    Someone whose name always comes up when I ask drummers I know who they respect, and looking online today loads of musicians saying the same. 
    Just feast on this, ignore Debbie Harry (for once) and enjoy a force of nature in action.

    RIP Clem.


    https://youtu.be/TU3-lS_Gryk?si=ay8dj0be_cNdLWrt



    I tried, I really tried!, but sorry I just couldn't quite ignore Debbie Harry. <3  
  • HastingsRed
    HastingsRed Posts: 1,608
    Parallel Lines was one of my first albums RIP.
  • HastingsRed
    HastingsRed Posts: 1,608
    edited April 9
    Blondie - Union City Blue (Official Music Video) Love this video, as we lived up the road from where it was shot....great drumming intro.
  • eastterrace6168
    eastterrace6168 Posts: 22,831
    Hal1x said:
    Big William said:
    Someone whose name always comes up when I ask drummers I know who they respect, and looking online today loads of musicians saying the same. 
    Just feast on this, ignore Debbie Harry (for once) and enjoy a force of nature in action.

    RIP Clem.


    https://youtu.be/TU3-lS_Gryk?si=ay8dj0be_cNdLWrt



    I tried, I really tried!, but I just couldn't ignore Debbie Harry. <3  
    Yeah...bloody Velcro, never holds that well normally...🙄

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