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Pretenders is the debut studio album by British-American band The Pretenders, released in January 1980.A combination of rock and roll, punk and new wave music, [3] this album made the band famous.
It was the opening track of the album. "Precious" was also released as a single in some countries, such as the Netherlands and Spain. A medley of "Precious" with "Brass in Pocket" and "Mystery Achievement" reached number 28 on the Dance Music/Club Play Singles chart. [13] A live version of "Precious" was included on the 1981 EP Extended Play. [14]
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 ...
Alone is the tenth studio album by English-American rock band the Pretenders.The album was released on 21 October 2016, by BMG Rights Management. [5] [6] It is the first Pretenders album since 2008's Break Up the Concrete, and follows Chrissie Hynde's solo debut Stockholm from 2014.
Break Up the Concrete is the ninth studio album by rock group the Pretenders.It is their first studio album since Loose Screw in 2002. Several "exclusive" editions of the disc exist (see track listing below); each appends a new countrified version of a vintage Pretenders song, in keeping with the general sound of the album.
Oprah Winfrey is a household name,but it turns out "Oprah" is not her real name. A little known fact about the 61-year-old media mogul -- her family wanted to give her a Biblical name, so they ...
"I'll Stand by You" was released as the second single from the album Last of the Independents (1994), and it reached number 16 on the US Billboard Hot 100, number 21 on Billboard ' s Modern Rock Tracks chart, and number 10 in the United Kingdom.
The Mayan calendar’s 819-day cycle has confounded scholars for decades, but new research shows how it matches up to planetary cycles over a 45-year span