Chrissie Hynde! I’m jealous as hell I can’t be more `alternative’ sometimes.”īut back to the 1980 gig. “I don’t understand rock ‘n’ roll,” lang said, “but I do love bands like The Pretenders. In 1995, I was in New York interviewing lang, an alt- country/torch singer possessed of an extraordinary and expressive voice and range, and she envied what Hynde could do. One of the best compliments I heard about Hynde’s voice came from k.d. So, maybe the first time was the best – the months of anticipation, the thrill of it all – but there have been plenty of Chrissie / Pretenders high points over the past four decades. The way she glides and soars around a vocal line – that wavering tremolo – is sublime.” Hynde, clad in an Elvis t-shirt and tight blue jeans, may (still) be the best female rock singer around. I’ve seen ‘em a bunch, the latest incarnation twice, in 20, and wrote this in 2016: “They hit mark after mark. 7th, and hard-hitting drummer Martin Chambers who carried Pretenders torch on into the next century they’ve had, by my reckoning, a dozen other bandmates along the way. Press play to hear a narrated version of this story, presented by AudioHopper. And of course, hardly suspecting what was to come, that two of her bandmates would be dead from drug overdoses within three years: Guitarist James Honeyman-Scott (June of 1982) and bassist Pete Farndon (April of 1983). and was nauseated by all the “Have a Nice Day” bromides) We all smiled, the way you do when you see a sharp nasty twist of a popular, inane cliché. Underneath her jacket, Chrissie Hynde sported a “Have a Nice Death” T-shirt, which she fully displayed midway through the set. And it was that way with me and The Pretenders, when the English band with the Akron, Ohio-born singer hit the stage at Boston’s Paradise Theater March 23, 1980. Sometimes, your first time really is the best time.
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