I can recall from the first footage I saw of you in Pretenders, you had started with a Gibson SG Jr. I don’t usually change my own strings, but I figured if I was in a hotel room and needed to change strings, that could work out good. These stay in tune, and they make changing strings easier. The only difference is the locking machine heads, which I know would horrify a vintage guy. singer-songwriters, why there’s hardly been any protest songs the last few years, retaining the punk attitude when working with world-class musicians and rethinking the business of running a band in a post-COVID-19 world. On the eve of Fender Guitars launching her new signature model Telecaster, she spoke to Alternative Press about how identical it is to her longtime main guitar, that ’60s background, the importance of bands vs.
Last year’s Hate For Sale LP-featuring the band’s longtime touring lineup of Hynde, Chambers, guitarist James Walbourne and bassist Nick Wilkinson-was raw enough to pass for the proper follow-up to Pretenders II. Read more: 10 album closers that ended the record on a dark noteĭeath and changing times and tastes have toppled neither the Pretenders’ popularity, quality nor Chrissie Hynde’s punk bonafides. Alongside the Clash, Blondie and Joan Jett, the Pretenders brought punk onto the radio when Green Day were still in elementary school. While none were hardly punks, they had the chops to pull off Hynde’s sophisticated compositions, and she encouraged enough roughness from them to elevate them above the day’s standard mainstream fare. None stuck, until she happened upon the three Hereford musicians who became the Pretenders under her leadership: drummer Martin Chambers-the only Pretenders mainstay, other than Hynde-overlooked lead guitarist James Honeyman-Scott and bassist Pete Farndon, both dead of drug overdoses in 1982 and ’83, respectively. in 1973, she found herself in the right place at the right time to come an original London punk scenester: a brief period scribbling record reviews and features for the NME working at Malcolm McLaren and Vivienne Westwood’s SEX boutique nearly marrying first Johnny Rotten, then Sid Vicious, to stay in the country singing backup on Johnny Thunders’ So Alone and the Specials’ debut LP passing through short-lived bands with future members of the Damned, the Clash and Sex Pistols. reactions like Mitch Ryder And The Detroit Wheels-she had a better grounding in quality songwriting than all those other chancers down at the Roxy in Covent Garden. Hynde issued her first solo album Stockholm in 2014 and published her autobiography, Reckless: My Life as a Pretender in 2015.She muses herein that being older, American and raised on the superior Top 40 “Boss” radio of the mid-’60s-screaming “personality” DJs with an echoplex, spinning a mix of Motown, girl groups, the latest and toughest British bands and U.S. The Pretenders produced numerous hit songs including Brass in Pocket, Back on the Chain Gang and Don't Get Me Wrong as well as 1994's I'll Stand by You. After a number of spells in other bands, in 1978, she formed her own band, The Pretenders, with the late Pete Farndon, the late James Honeyman-Scott and Martin Chambers.Īs singer, songwriter and guitarist, she has been the only constant member of the band throughout its history. Hynde and The Pretenders were inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2005.Ĭhrissie Hynde moved to London in 1973, and after a period at NME, worked in London with Malcolm McLaren and Vivienne Westwood at their punk-themed clothing store, SEX. She has also released a number of hits with other musicians including Frank Sinatra and UB40. Chrissie Hynde, born Septemin Akron, Ohio, is an American musician who is best known as a founding member of the rock band The Pretenders.
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