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March 8, 2005

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 2005: The Pretenders

Martin Chambers keeps time -- and marks time -- for quintessential New Wavers
May 29, 1080

The Pretenders' Leather Love Songs

All-American Chrissie Hynde and her hot British band deliver

Loose Screw

On the Pretenders' eighth album, Chrissie Hynde and collaborator Adam Seymour have matched expansive songs to roomy reggae-ish bottoms. The results are top-flight: With one exception -- "Lie to Me," a thuggy, technologically tricked-up number -- everything here is all programmed refinement, stylish ...

2002 RS: 4of 5 Stars

Viva El Amor!

1999

The Isle Of View

1995

Last Of The Independents

1994

Packed

1990

Get Close

1986

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The Pretenders, originally three Englishmen and an American woman, emerged at the close of the '70s as one of the new wave's most commercially successful groups. Its focal point was Chrissie Hynde, the band's songwriter, lead singer, and rhythm guitarist, whose tough songs and stage persona put feminist self-assertion into her own distinctive hard rock.

A single gig with an Akron band, Sat. Sun....

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