CHRISSIE HYNDE
G'day folks,
Welcome to some background on a great singer and activist. Chrissie Hynde came to fame as the frontwoman for the
Pretenders. Hits "Brass in Pocket" and "My City Was Gone"
became rock anthems in the 1970s and '80s.
Synopsis
Singer,
songwriter, and guitarist Chrissie Hynde was born September 7, 1951, in Akron,
Ohio. Her band, The Pretenders, got together in the late 1970s and released a
self-titled album in 1980. She and bandmate James Honeyman-Scott penned the
group's first hit, "Brass in Pocket." Subsequent releases
produced the hit songs "Middle of the Road," "Show Me" and
"I'll Stand by You."
Singer,
songwriter and guitarist Christine Ellen Hynde was born on September 7, 1951,
in Akron, Ohio. Hynde was one of the leading women in rock in the 1980s and
'90s as the lead singer of the Pretenders. After studying art at Kent State
University for a time, she took off for London, England, where she discovered
the emerging new rock genre called "punk."
The Pretenders
The
Pretenders got together in the late 1970s and released a self-titled album in
1980. Hynde and bandmate James Honeyman-Scott penned the group's first hit,
"Brass in Pocket." Subsequent releases produced the hit songs
"Middle of the Road," "Show Me" and "Back on the Chain
Gang" (from 1984's Learning to Crawl); and "Don't Get Me
Wrong" (from 1986's Get Close); as well as 1994's "I'll Stand
by You."
In 2005
the group was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. In 2015 Hynde
released the autobiography Reckless: My Life as a Pretender.
Chrissie
Hynde divorced Simple Minds singer Jim Kerr in 1990 after six years of
marriage. Together they have a daughter, Yasmin. Hynde also has a daughter,
Natalie, with her former longtime partner Ray Davies of the Kinks.
Clancy's comment: Just love the pretenders.
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