{"id":160777,"date":"2025-04-08T10:32:47","date_gmt":"2025-04-08T10:32:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/08\/blondie-drummer-clem-burke-passes-away-aged-70\/"},"modified":"2025-04-08T10:32:47","modified_gmt":"2025-04-08T10:32:47","slug":"blondie-drummer-clem-burke-passes-away-aged-70","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/08\/blondie-drummer-clem-burke-passes-away-aged-70\/","title":{"rendered":"Blondie drummer Clem Burke passes away aged 70"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"data-instgrm-captioned\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DIJXAYuu3L0\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\"\/>\n<p>Blondie drummer Clem Burke has passed away at age 70 after a private battle with cancer, the band has announced in social media posts that paid tribute to &#8220;our beloved friend and bandmate.&#8221; He appeared on all of Blondie&#8217;s albums and was the only drummer through the band&#8217;s entire career. <\/p>\n<p><b>\u201cClem was not just a drummer; he was the heartbeat of Blondie. His talent, energy, and passion for music were unmatched, and his contributions to our sound and success are immeasurable.\u201d<\/b><\/p>\n<p><i>really gutted, tbh.  RIP to one of the best ever to do it<\/i><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/l.lj-toys.com\/?auth_token=sessionless%3A1744110000%3Aembedcontent%3A3616053%262158610%26%26%26youtube%26rl3iaTUQQvY%3Aff1db662cb0b22270d7f13a42e87025b9db9b37b&amp;source=youtube&amp;vid=rl3iaTUQQvY&amp;moduleid=2158610&amp;preview=&amp;journalid=3616053&amp;noads=\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" class=\"lj_embedcontent\" allowfullscreen=\"\" name=\"embed_3616053_2158610\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DIJXAYuu3L0\/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&amp;igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Source 1<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=rl3iaTUQQvY\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Source 2<\/a> <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async defer src=\"https:\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/ohnotheydidnt.livejournal.com\/130339101.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blondie drummer Clem Burke has passed away at age 70 after a private battle with cancer, the band has announced in social media posts that paid tribute to &#8220;our beloved friend and bandmate.&#8221; He appeared on all of Blondie&#8217;s albums and was the only drummer through the band&#8217;s entire career. \u201cClem was not just a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":160778,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-160777","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-hollywood"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160777\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/160778"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}