
Del
Shannon
1999
Art Alexakis
Not your average teen idol. He had the commercial success and good looks of a teen pop star, but Del Shannon was so much more. He wrote, played guitar on and sang his own songs, often in a minor key that predicted the trends of the British Invasion.
Induction
"Runaway"
Impact

"Runaway" left a really lasting, indelible impression on me
Art Alexakis

1999 Hall of Fame Essay
The characters that populated Del Shannon’s songs often could be found, to paraphrase a fellow inductee, in the darkness on the edge of town...
Written By Michael Hill
sealed with a signature
This is the signature that appears on the inductee’s plaque at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame to officially commemorate their induction.
Del Shannon
More from
the Hall


