The Pretenders are a British rock band. The original band consisted of initiator and main songwriter Chrissie Hynde (lead vocals, rhythm guitar), James Honeyman-Scott (lead guitar, backing vocals, keyboards), Pete Farndon (bass guitar, backing vocals), and Martin Chambers (drums, backing vocals, percussion). The band was impaired by drug-related deaths and numerous subsequent personnel changes have taken place over the years, with Hynde as the so...
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The Pretenders are a British rock band. The original band consisted of initiator and main songwriter Chrissie Hynde (lead vocals, rhythm guitar), James Honeyman-Scott (lead guitar, backing vocals, keyboards), Pete Farndon (bass guitar, backing vocals), and Martin Chambers (drums, backing vocals, percussion). The band was impaired by drug-related deaths and numerous subsequent personnel changes have taken place over the years, with Hynde as the sole continual member.
Hynde, originally from Akron, Ohio, attended the Kent State University at the time of the Kent State shootings during 1970. She moved to London during 1973 and from there began writing for the weekly music paper, New Musical Express. After several years of false starts, including the bands Masters of the Backside and The Moors Murderers, she initiated a new band.
The Pretenders formed during 1978, at the end of the original, two-year British punk fad. Hynde's band comprised a set of acquaintances from Hereford, near the...
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