6/24/2023 0 Comments Death to the pretenders![]() Thus, in many ways, the springboard for the new version of The Pretenders was a song bemoaning the demise of the old one. Those two songs were included when the band eventually releases their third album, 1984’s stellar Learning To Crawl. If nothing else, “Back On The Chain Gang” proved a way forward for The Pretenders the b-Side, “My City Was Gone,” also became one of the band’s most beloved tracks. The last word of that bridge leads to a key change for the final verse, Hynde’s voice now palpably displaying the ache as she directly addresses the loss she feels: “I found a picture of you/Those were the happiest days of my life/Like a break in the battle was your part/In the wretched life of a lonely heart.” The memory ends, and she’s once again “back on the train/Back on the chain gang.” In the second verse, Hynde suggests that unnecessary ephemera like “The phone, the TV, and the news of the world” became an unstoppable, malignant force: “Got in the house like a pigeon from hell/Threw sand in our eyes and descended like flies.” In the bridge, she curses unnamed antagonists, all while looking forward to their comeuppance: “But I’ll die as a I stand here today/Knowing that deep in my heart/They’ll fall to ruin one day/For making us part.” Track artwork for Stars - Pretenders (illuminati hotties Remix) Stars - Pretenders (illuminati. “That was a song I was writing and I had shown Jimmy Scott some of the chords, and I was working on this song which he liked, and then he died, and it turned into more of a tribute to him,” Hynde explained. He Lied About Death by Stars, released 12 October 2004. Hynde told interviewer Paul Zollo that she altered the content of the song, which was originally inspired by her relationship with Kinks’ frontman Ray Davies, in the wake of the sudden tragedy that befell the band. She’s led the Pretenders through death, discord, and stretches of silence. From extreme adversity, “Back In The Chain Gang,” the song which would become the band’s biggest hit single, was born. Both the pretenders had seriously thought about who would be more a believable person to impersonate at the time. In addition, even if Richard were dead, this would aid Warbeck, as Henry could not show him to the public. But Hynde had begun writing a song which seemed to hold of lot of promise. So, Warbeck decided to impersonate Richard of York, who was generally thought to be dead, but his death had never been proved. (Farndon would succumb to a drug-related death the next year.) The band was down to two members, lead singer and songwriter Chrissie Hynde and drummer Martin Chambers. Morphine singer-bassist Mark Sandman died of cardiac arrest onstage in Palestrina, Italy, on July 3, 1999. History remembers this pretender as Perkin Warbeck. It was initially claimed he was a bastard son of Richard III before he was declared Richard, Duke of York, the younger of the Princes in the Tower presumed dead for the past 8 years. Just days after that incident, guitarist James Honeyman-Scott died of a drug overdose. On his blog, You And What Army, Michael Azerrad lays to rest the drug rumors regarding the death of the man behind Morphine, Mark Sandman. Four years after the Simnel affair, another pretender surfaced again in Ireland. In June, the band fired bassist Pete Farndon because of his drug use. ![]() In the summer of 1982, The Pretenders, just two albums into an already-impressive career, were crumbling.
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