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For over 40 years the discography of The Pretenders, a London, England-based rock band, reflects worldwide charting of 12 studio albums, four compilation albums, one extended play (EP), four live albums, six video albums and 55 singles.
Hynde, originally from Akron, Ohio, moved to London in 1973, working at the weekly music paper NME [4] and at Malcolm McLaren and Vivienne Westwood's clothes store. She was involved with early versions of the Sex Pistols, the Clash, and the Damned and played in short-lived bands such as Masters of the Backside (1976) and the Moors Murderers (1978 lineup), but failed to find a regular or equal ...
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It should only contain pages that are The Pretenders albums or lists of The Pretenders albums, as well as subcategories containing those things (themselves set categories). Topics about The Pretenders albums in general should be placed in relevant topic categories .
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In 2003, Rolling Stone ranked the album at number 155 on its list of the 500 greatest albums of all time, [22] with Pretenders maintaining the rating in the 2012 revised list, [23] and moving up to number 152 on the 2020 revision. [24] In 2020, Rolling Stone included the band's debut album in their "80 Greatest albums of 1980" list. [25]
The original video for this song, directed by Mike Mansfield, [5] presented the famous Grace Jones mask for the first time. The entire video shows Jones' face in close-up, with her taking the mask off, replacing it, and then taking it off again, and mostly singing straight to the camera. The clip was filmed in a single take, without any editing.