She has also released a number of songs with other musicians including Frank Sinatra, Cher and UB40, and she released the solo album Stockholm in 2014. Fronted by singer/songwriter Chrissie Hynde, they exposed the confessional. Hynde formed the Pretenders in 1978 with Pete Farndon, James Honeyman-Scott and Chambers. I know I shouldn’t name drop, but in the words of Neil Young ‘she’ll be rocking till she drops."”Ĭopyright © 2022, ABC Audio. The Pretenders music is simultaneously melodic and bristling with rebellion. She added, “I guess I just can’t help it. Hynde explained that the project “started out as more of a Valve Bone Woe sort of thing” - referring to her jazz-influenced 2019 solo album - “but morphed into a rock thing.” The Pretenders currently have no tour dates scheduled, although Hynde has been announced as one of the performers at the Foo Fighters-headlined star-studded tribute concert to late Foos drummer Taylor Hawkins that will take place September 3 in London.Īlso, Hynde announced in a Facebook post last month that The Pretenders had finished recording a new album. Hynde also sung the praises of and shared a video clip of a hard-rocking new song by longtime Pretenders guitarist James Walbourne‘s current project, His Lordship‘s “All Cranked Up.” She added, “If anyone wants to come and see me in the future it’s going to be punk rock/no hits.”
(I was just too scared to go back to waitressing.) But those greatest hits/ballads days are now behind me.” And yes, I know that’s no reason to be in a rock band. I never wanted to go there in the first place but was trying to keep myself alive and pay the bills. In a Facebook message posted Friday, Hynde revealed she had some “good news,” writing, “I’m completely dumping any sort of Greatest Hits set for now on. All rights reserved.If you’re a Pretenders fan, here’s some potentially disappointing news: Frontwoman Chrissie Hynde says she no longer plans to play concerts that focus on her band’s best-known tunes.
I know I shouldn’t name drop, but in the words of Neil Young ‘she’ll be rocking till she drops.'”Ĭopyright © 2022, ABC Audio. I never wanted to go there in the first place but was trying to keep myself alive and pay the bills. Chrissie Hynde and The Pretenders went through a few different lineups, due to the drug-related deaths of two of the original members, guitarist James Honeyman-Scott and bassist Peter Farndon. If you’re a Pretenders fan, here’s some potentially disappointing news: Frontwoman Chrissie Hynde says she no longer plans to play concerts that focus on her band’s best-known tunes.
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