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• RalphMilnesgut

  April 7

  Sad news

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• Chizz

  April 7

  Oh no. Brilliant drummer. Enormous consumer of hairspray. Clem Burke was probably the most British drummer not to have come from the UK. 

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• CafcWest

  April 7 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.

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• Bilko

  April 7

  Bloody Hell RIP.

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• charlton4ever

  April 7

  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.

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• bristoladdick

  April 7

  Sad news. RIP Clem.

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• eastterrace6168

  April 7

  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
  
  

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• paulbaconsarnie

  April 7

  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

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• Hal1x

  April 7 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

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• Henry Irving

  April 7

  RIP

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• hoof_it_up_to_benty

  April 7

  Outstanding drummer with great head of hair. RIP

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• soapy_jones

  April 7

  RIP

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• HardyAddick

  April 7

  Sad unexpected news. Great drummer 

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• SouthallAddick

  April 7

  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

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• Covered End

  April 7

  RIP Clem, I took my wife to see Blondie (she was a big fan) a few times.

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• stonemuse

  April 7

  Great drummer great band … RIP

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• Hal1x

  April 7

  Also was the Eurythmics drummer for a while.

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• KBslittlesis

  April 7

  Very very sad.
  RIP 😢

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• Horsfield9

  April 7

  RIP 

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• SuedeAdidas

  April 7

  stonemuse said:

  Great drummer great band … RIP

  ….great Barnet. 

  
  

  RIP

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• bigstemarra

  April 7

  Great character, great drummer.
  
  RIP

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• ElfsborgAddick

  April 8 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.

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• Pedro45

  April 8

  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

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• AddicksAddict

  April 8

  RIP

  
  

  From Hugh Cornwell. https://www.facebook.com/100044534555121/posts/1238335790994228/?mibextid=rS40aB7S9Ucbxw6v

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• Big William

  April 8 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
  
  
  
  

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• Algarveaddick

  10:01AM

  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.  

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• Hal1x

  12:11PM edited 12:12PM

  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.  

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