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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

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