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Lyrics goodbye the pretenders3/21/2023 ![]() ![]() The follow-up CD Get Close, produced in 1986, was much more successful that the preceding one. Single Don't Get Me Wrong, released in September 1986, brought the band back to the top ten in the British charts, for the first time in five years. After that, she gave the last performance with the old members of The Pretenders at Live Aid, and then called brand new musicians. In May 1984, Crissy Hynde married Simple Minds vocalist Jim Kerr. It gained more acclaim in the USA, rather than in Britain. Having changed several guitar players, the band recorded the third, long-expected, album, Learning To Crawl, released in October 1982. In two more days, guitarist Honeyman-Scott died in his bath of cocaine-heroine mixture OD. In June 1982, Farndon was isolated from the other musicians due to uncontrolled drug consuming, and after another world tour, he was left out of the band. However, that success came with the first signs of the lineup collapse. Album Pretenders II (1981) was also based on melodic postpunk with energy of new wave. In the States, Hynde set romantic links with Ray Davis from The Kinks, who used to be her youth idol. The first album, Pretenders, released in 1980, hit the first position in Great Britain and was sold out in millions all over the world after the band’s American tour. It was no surprise that the fourth single of the band Brass In Pocket topped the British charts. ![]() The band gave a moderate tour around the local pubs while it was mentioned in many praising articles with the focus on the female singer with a guitar and sex concerned lyrics. The debut single Stop Your Sobbing (1979) saw The Pretenders draw much attention from critics and journalists. Crissie was joined by Martin Chambers, James Honeyman-Scott and Pete Farndon. The young group was called The Pretenders. Hynde enchanted Hill and he offered her to gather a band, the first one to sign a contract with the new studio. In 1978, she recorded several songs she had written herself and presented them to Dave Hill, one of Anchor Records managers launching his own label Real Records. ![]() The Pretenders were founded by Crissie Hynde, born in Akron, USA, September 17, 1951, who moved to England in early 70-s. ![]()
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