Lee "Scratch" Perry

Not in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame

Eligible since: 1995

First Recording: 1969

Previously Considered? No  what's this?

Lee "Scratch" Perry
HALL OF FAME INDICATORS
🔲Rolling Stone 500 Albums
🔲Rolling Stone 500 Songs
🔲Rolling Stone Cover
🔲Saturday Night Live
🔲Major Festival Headliner
🔲Songwriters Hall of Fame
🔲“Big Four” Grammys
Rolling Stone
100 Greatest Artists

Inducted into Rock Hall Revisited in 2002 (ranked #10 in the Non-Performers - Producers/Engineers category) .

Essential Albums (?)WikipediaYouTube
Roast Fish Collie Weed & Corn Bread (1978)

Essential Songs (?)WikipediaYouTube
I am the Up Setter (1969)
Disco Devil (1977)

Lee "Scratch" Perry @ Wikipedia

Will Lee "Scratch" Perry be inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame?
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R.I.P. Lee Scratch Perry

Another towering musical legend that the HOF has failed to honor while he was still alive. Huge opportunity missed!

Posted by Shrek on Sunday, 08/29/2021 @ 16:34pm


I had never even heard of him until hearing Saudade's "Lions" which has Randy Blythe on the track with Lee also listed on the track.

Posted by Andrew Corrao-Farelli on Thursday, 02/3/2022 @ 23:08pm


I'm listening to a lot of Upsetters album lately and I can confirm that Lee Perry should be in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. This dude literally invented his own genre!

Posted by Dave Sikes on Tuesday, 09/6/2022 @ 11:19am


"Disco Devil" was heavily sampled/covered in The Prodigy's techno hit, "Out of Space" - evidence of influence outside his own genre.

Posted by Bookhouse on Thursday, 03/23/2023 @ 12:55pm


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