![]() ![]() Sexual politics, never far away with Hynde, took a controversial turn with 977 (''He hit me with his belt, but his tears were all I felt'') and Night in My Veins (lyrics possibly best not quoted). Last of the Independents (1994) We cheered at this rousing return to form. Packed! (1990) Never Do That was an insipid rewrite of Back on the Chain Gang. If she had kept the players from the previous album this might have had the makings of a worthy offering. Get Close (1986) The Pretenders are a group, sure, but Hynde need no longer pretend (sorry) they are anything but her. Chrissie rarely bettered the barbs contained here, such as: ''I can't get from the cab to the kerb without some little jerk on my back'' ( Middle of the Road). The songs are mostly built around standard blues/rockabilly chords but they are fabulously entertaining. You inspire millions, female and male, for doing it your way and doing it so damn well, and that’s good enough.Learning to Crawl (1984) With a dead guitarist and a sacked bassist, also now dead, Hynde faced the mother of all battles just to stay in the game. Huge stars like Madonna and Lady Gaga have said seeing Hynde perform transformed their views of what was possible for a woman, but Chrissie insists that all she was doing was being herself. ![]() She refused to take on the role of the victim after having been gang-raped by a motorcycle gang when she was 21. She says that it was never harder for her just because she was a girl, despite the clear evidence that it was.Īs is also common in the professional and business worlds, she had to be twice as good as the guys to get any credit. She is unquestionably a feminist icon, yet steadfastly refuses the label. Hynde has triggered controversy for her refusal to be put in a box. She has talked about nursing a baby while on the road, going on stage to rock out, and then going backstage and being a mom. She slowed down a bit to raise the children but never completely stopped being a rock star. Finally, in 1978, she met the musicians who would become the Pretenders.ĭuring the band's early days, she had a relationship with Ray Davies of the Kinks, leading to one daughter, and then married Jim Kerr of Simple Minds, with whom she had a second daughter. (where her disillusionment with what had happened to her hometown inspired at least one song that would later become a hit), and then back to England. She moved to France for another gig, back to the U.S. She befriended many musicians, dated some of them, worked for Vivienne Westwood (the doyenne of punk fashion), and auditioned for and gigged with several bands without anything lasting. There she worked as a music journalist, covering the local music scene when she only wanted to be in a band. Hynde attended art college, lost a friend in the Kent State massacre, tried unsuccessfully to get into several rock bands, and eventually made her way to London. She and her friends would innocently hang out with stars like Rod Stewart and Ron Wood, oblivious to the fact that the men were hoping to get into their pants. She loved seeing rock bands play live and went to concerts whenever possible. In interviews and her autobiography, she describes a typical teenage alienation from her parents, a complete disconnect with her high school's dominant sports and cheerleading culture - and an early obsession with rock and roll. Chrissie Hynde grew up in a middle-class family in Ohio, close to Akron. ![]()
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