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Reckless : my life as a Pretender / Chrissie Hynde.

by Hynde, Chrissie.

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Random House Canada, [2015]

781.66092 H997r

Hynde, Chrissie.

Pretenders (Musical group)

Women rock musicians -- United States -- Biography

Rock musicians -- United States -- Biography.

Guitarists -- United States -- Biography.

Lyricists -- United States -- Biography.

9780345816245 (hc.)

0385540612 (hc., USA ed.)

First United States edition.

x, 312 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm

"Born in 1951 in Akron, Ohio, Chrissie Hynde was, for nearly four decades the singer/songwriter/undisputed leader of the Pretenders. Few other rock stars have managed to combine her swagger, sexiness, stage presence, knack for putting words to music, gorgeous voice and just all-around kick-assedness into such a potent and alluring package. Her signature songs project a unique mixture of toughness and vulnerability that millions of men and women have related to. A kind of one- woman secret tunnel linking punk and new wave to classic guitar rock, she is one of the great luminaries in rock history. In this memoir Reckless, Chrissie Hynde tells, with fearless candor and sharp humor, exactly where she came from and what her crooked, winding path to stardom entailed. Her All-American upbringing in Akron, Ohio, a child of postwar power and prosperity. Her soul capture, along with tens of millions of her generation, by the gods of sixties rock who came through Cleveland -- Mitch Ryder, David Bowie, Jeff Back, Paul Butterfield and Iggy Pop among them. Her shocked witness in 1970 to the horrific shooting of student antiwar protestors at Kent State. Her weakness for the sorts of men she calls “the heavy bikers” and “the get-down boys.” Her flight from Ohio to London in 1973 essentially to escape the former and pursue the latter. Her scuffling years as a brash reviewer for New Musical Express, shop girl at the Malcolm McLaren and Vivienne Westwood boutique, first-hand witness to the birth of the punk movement, and serial band aspirant. In 1978, she formed her own band, The Pretenders, with Pete Farndon, James Honeyman-Scott and Martin Chambers. Their first album and "Instant" stardom, with all the disorientation and hazards that involved. The it all comes crashing back down to earth with the deaths of lead guitarist James Honeyman Scott and bassist Peter Farndon, leaving her bruised and saddened, but far from beaten. Because Chrissie Hynde is, among other things, one of rock's great survivors"--Provided by publisher.

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