Blondie Acceptance Speech at the 2006 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony
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- Опубликовано: 26 апр 2020
- Blondie Acceptance Speech at the 2006 Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony
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Awesome such a well Earned and well Deserved Award Blondie is so Loved.🥰😍🤩
Damn! What an ending.
This was so sad and awkward to watch. My first ever album I owned was Best of Blondie. I think it was 80 or 81 - I was about 10 years old, and it was ALL I wanted for Christmas. My Dad copied the LP to tape for me, and I wore it out within a few months, because I just flipped it and played it over and over (I loved every second, but pretty sure everyone else in the house didn't after a while). When I'd made enough money from my paper rounds, I worked on buying the rest, and to this day Autoamerican is still one my favourite albums of all time.
To see the animosity between a bunch of folks who helped shape my love of music is just painful to witness. Personally I think they deserve a place in the R&R H.o.F. but this has added a sour note to some great memories :(
Debbie is amazing !
It was well documented...that Debbie & Frankie (aka, Harry & Infante) NEVER got along, pretty much from the very beginning. He was just a REALLY, REALLY good lead guitarist; much better than Chris Stein, who was more of their music's main writer, arranger & organizer and did very little on the guitar. Listen intently to Frank Infante's solos on the full, unedited versions of "Rapture" & "Call Me"; his style for a post-punk/new wave band, had an incredible twist of rock distortion to it, not just a Ramones-type heavy chord, hard/fast pop-punk feel. But it was known, that he and Harry got along so UNWELL, that during their last couple Blondie albums, "Auto American" & "The Hunter", rumor had it, that Infante was basically asked to stay away from the studio during the basic tracking and was only brought in to record his few solos, AFTER most of the pre-production and post-production had already been completed. Then later, those world famous legals suits were filed and everything broke down; no chance of ANY reunion between the two, once and for all. Indeed, Infante showed a bitter & sour attitude from that point on and had a forever ax to grind, but I guess I would too...in a way...if I was always "shoved-to-the-back" row of group involvement & participation...when I was deemed to be their lead guitarist.
BCRadio
well said
@@MUFSpoiler Thanks for your reply "@MUFSpoiler"; I tried to be as fair, honest & unbiased as possible in my views & commentary, regrading the lifelong drama of the legendary group BLONDIE. I'll sum it up by saying..."who knows"? Maybe someday, Harry & Infante will reconcile...or at least, be cordial...to one another.
BCRadio
Wow; very interesting and that explains the highly unusual friction in the acceptance speech. Right off the bat I was wondering who those 2 guys on the left were even though I bought Blondies first 4 albums when they were released. I loved their music but never followed the band members that much except for Blondie, Chris Stein and the drummer Clem Burke. I always just assumed Chris Stein was their lead guitar and didn't even know of Frank Infante(I guess I should have but I just bought their records and listened to them). I was surprised when Blondie did he acceptance because I figured she would be last and was wondering who these other 2 guys were. I like that Frank Infante said what he was thinking even if it was a bit anti-social. I just like when people are real. I was surprised that Blondie and the others never thought to thank their fans so maybe they weren't the best people. Anyway; very interesting and it's now about 46 years since I bought Blondie's self titled debut LP!
The lawyers show up at the end of every band.
I can only imagine the things that have been said that people don't hear and see from the microphone 🎤 Awesome for Blondie!
💥❤️❤️❤️💋
Clem Burke rocks!
Humble genius.
the infamous bingo night
Clem Burke what a beautiful speech
Blondie is my favorite East Coast American band. However, I feel the original line up should have played that night at RRHOF. All other bands like Talking Heads & Duran Duran did it. Unless of course some of the members are sick or deceased, that's different.
Holy shit that was awkward at the end!! WTF!
it has some reasons
frankie sued them a few times....
Nigel was the most embarrassed.
whew... glad that's over.
Frank and his buddy sued Blondie over the use of the name "Blondie." This is a over simplfied
Reason, but from what I read from various sources, it was a nasty cat fight. Jb😁
Debbie carried Stein, he was her useless boyfriend. I dunno if he was much of a band leader or driving force before Mike Chapman started producing the band but Debbie is the underated genius songwriter that Stein was hyped up to be in press and folklore.
Nigel was a cowriter of Union City Blue which is super catchy and timeless pop which seems to have the same melodic vibe like Dreaming which was apparently cowritten by Stein.
I get the sense that Debbie wrote all the melodies and hooks on any cowrite she did because I can feel it but if i'm wrong I can accept that. It sure sounds or feels like the same person to me in those melodies. Like when you get listen to a beatles song and pick what John Lennon wrote or what Paul Mcartney wrote.
8 songs on eat the beat were co written by Debbie.
The best songs were always co written by Debbie.
But where were her hits after Bondie? It's such a cunumdrum.
I get that good songwriters can peak and might not get that magic back but with Debbie I feel like she had to have the stress and pressure to keep the whole momentum of the band moving and maybe when that pressure lifted she just couldn't draw that out of herself anymore. Either way it's bloody typical that she was so over looked as a brilliant songwriter those days, I guess it was always easier to beleive that men were behind the hits.
Can you say "awkward "? 😁
That was great lol. None of these people had anything to say! Ridiculous display of vapid idiocy. Stein was drunk and unrehearsed, Debbie was staring at him, incredulous, the entire time. Probably made up her mind to leave that instant.
The most obvious example of why the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is a rotten scam
Very uncomfortable!
Deborah Harry is the star in Blondie, No Deborah, no million dollar record sales and phenomenal success. MTV just began when "Heart of Glass" was a hit, and Debbie turned Blondie into a hugely popular and successful punk rock, new wave, new sound type of rock and roll band. Danceable punk rock music at its finest really mostly because of Debbie everybody loved it.
Those two should have gotten a couple other musicians and a singer and played a few of the Blondie songs either of those two wrote and Debbie and Stein and the others play Blondie songs that any of them wrote. If not, play other songs. That would have been the smart thing to do. Ahead of time, plan it out. Then it could have been awesome for all of them. To complain like that...seemed to not be the right thing at all to do at an awards ceremony. They obviously were not all on good terms before this.
They all (including Ms. Harry) owe a debt of gratitude to others, just as everyone in life does. Additionally, they all contributed I am sure a lot working toward their success. However, IMO I cant stress enough that Deborah Harry is why they became such a big time commercially successful band. They all gotta already realize that, I would think.
Heart Glass was 1978. MTV started in the early 80s. You may be confusing Rapture. I think that was played a lot during MTV's inception
@@artlover4668 MTV just began when Heart of Glass was a hit. The video was shown all the time. Heart of Glass was one of the most popular videos on MTV when that network first started. Heart of Glass was the 76th music video ever shown. I looked it up just now. In the top one hundred first videos. I got to see MTV at my mom's house in NJ when it first began . It was on my cable tv. I remember being in high school loving that hot girl singing heart of glass. OMG that chic is hot! Lol That is what I was thinking everytime it came on which was a lot! I loved it. I am sure I wasn't alone in thinking that way. Rapture was another huge music video hit.
@@nycinstyle No!!! read the previous comment! MTV started in '81.. "heart of glass" was '78!! just cos that may be what your memories are doesnt make them right..
@@playitstrange129 No!!! "Heart of Glass" was one of the songs on the initial list of videos played on MTV the first year they started in 1981. That video helped propel the huge success of MTV. DUH!!! The video, "Heart of Glass" was a hit in 1981 just like I said.
@@nycinstyle youre wrong.. that was "Rapture".. ill make it really simple for you... read this.. it never even charted after 1979: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heart_of_Glass_(song)
4:43 FRANK STEALS THE SHOW! "Are THEY being inducted" 5:10 " oh, your band?, I thought Blondie was being inducted? THIS IS THE ONLY REASON TO WATCH THESE BITTER VIDEOS!
Awkward
Blondie sucks. Heart rules.
still laughing.....🤣
@@jamesbarnes5808 Blondie doesn't suck, but Heart does rule!