For over 45 years, The Pretenders songs have stood the test of time with their unique melodies, powerful messages and ability to stir up all kinds of emotions. Formed in 1978, when punk ruled and the ...

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British-American rock outfit The Pretenders have a lot on their plate this year in terms of touring, but that’s not stopping them from hitting a few major cities in the US this summer. The band has ...

SUMMIT COUNTY In March of 2007, when a group of Summit County musicians needed direction for their new band, they took stock of their strengths: three hard-driving musicians and a female lead vocalist ...

Chrissie Hynde 's talent is a musical gift from heaven, a one-of-a-kind voice that powered her band, the Pretenders, into creating some of rock's most memorable songs in the 1970s and '80s. Drawing ...

Chrissie Hynde feels "guilty" over the deaths of her Pretenders bandmates. The 72-year-old rock star shot to fame in the 1970s band but admitted all these years later that she "did not discourage" the ...

ASPEN – You figure this would have happened sooner to Chrissie Hynde. Feisty, outspoken and apparently indifferent to concerns of career status, the lead singer of the Pretenders never seemed the type ...

In a week where the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame has been called out by Courtney Love and author Jessica Hopper for its lack of female representation, Pretenders vocalist Chrissie Hynde has also shared ...

If you have digital cable, way up the dial, probably some-where in the 100s — where average TV viewers may start to wonder if, perhaps, they have a bit too much television — sits VH1 Classic. It's the ...

On the first day that MTV launched, back on August 1, 1981, the seventh video played on the nascent channel was the Pretenders' "Brass in Pocket." In that clip, Chrissie Hynde, all beehive hairdo and ...