![]() ![]() ![]() The Pretenders II singles album include: ‘Talk of the Town’ in 1980, ‘Message of Love’ in 1981, ‘Day After Day’ in 1981, ‘The Adultress’ in 1981 and ‘I Go to Sleep’ in 1981. The Pretenders singles album include: ‘Stop Your Sobbing’ in 1979, ‘Kid’ in 1979, and ‘Brass in Pocket’ in 1980. The Pretenders were much more than just a punk band due to Hynde’s vast knowledge of rock and roll. tour tonight in support of the Pretenders ’ latest album, Hate for Sale. The group got inspired from the song ‘The Great Pretenders’ by a successful vocal group ‘The Platters’ and named the band ‘The Pretenders’. It’s a Friday evening in mid-May, and Chrissie Hynde was supposed to kick off a U.S. Hynde and Farndon recruited the drummer ‘Martin Chambers’ and guitarist ‘James Honeyman-Scott’ to form a group. ![]() They played for a New Orleans soul singer King Floyd’s song ‘Groove Me’, which followed by two of Hynde’s tunes: “Tequila” and “The Phone Call”. She was invited by ‘Mick Jones’ to join his band ‘The Clash’ on their tour of Britain.Ĭhrissie Hynde met bassist Pete Farndon in the spring of 1978 at a bar in Portbello Road and joined her in the rehearsal room in Convent Garden, London. She also criticized the current state of the music business that only gives space for overproduced music. The group later became an English punk and gothic rock band ‘The Damned’, Hynde was asked to leave the group. The Pretenders vocalist and singer Chrissie Hynde announced in a Facebook post that she won’t perform the hits of the band anymore. Hynde was then placed as a guitarist in a British punk rock group ‘Masters of the Backside’ by Malcolm McLaren. She failed with her attempts of making a band with ‘Mick Jones’, a lead guitarist and a vocalist of the British punk rock band ‘The Clash’. Hynde later quit the job in ‘NME’ magazine and became a full-time punk rocker working with ‘Malcolm McLaren’, manager of Sex Pistols and ‘Vivienne Westwood’. She then met a British rock critic ‘Nick Kent’ and joined has a staff member of the magazine ‘New Musical Express’. Chrissie Hynde worked in various jobs to support herself and saved enough money to move from Ohio to London in 1973, during this period she also developed an interest in the pop music magazine the ‘New Musical Express’.Ĭhrissie Hynde got a job in an architectural firm in London with her art background and quit the job after eight months. ![]()
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