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"My City Was Gone" is a song by the rock group The Pretenders. The song originally appeared in October 1982 as the B-side to the single release of "Back on the Chain Gang"; [3] the single was the first release for the band following the death of founding bandmember James Honeyman-Scott.
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The instrumental introduction of the song would later be adopted as the theme of the EIB Network radio brand, originally Rush Limbaugh and later Clay Travis and Buck Sexton. "Thumbelina" is a country rock song about a mother and daughter traveling across America, with the last line suggesting that the mother is leaving her husband. [14]
[15] [4] The song was released in October and became their biggest success in the US, staying at No. 5 for three consecutive weeks. The single's B-side, "My City Was Gone" was (except for a brief period in the 1990s) the theme music for the Rush Limbaugh Show since its inception. [16] [17]
The 1987 "If There Was a Man" UK release was accredited to The Pretenders for 007 In 1980, "Precious" (A-side) was released as a single in Spain with "Stop Your Sobbing" as the B-side. In 1980, "Cuban Slide" (A-side) was released as a single in Japan, backed with "Stop Your Sobbing" as the B-side.
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]
Greatest Hits is a greatest hits album by English-American rock band The Pretenders, released in 2000.It was only their second greatest hits album in 22 years, but less successful than its predecessor, The Singles, released in 1987.
The lyrics also refer to autobiographical details (i.e., the lyric "I got a kid, I'm thirty-three" although Hynde had just turned 32 when the single was released). [6] The harmonica solo near the end of the song is uncredited. Ultimate Classic Rock attributes the solo to Hynde, [7] who usually plays it during live performances of the song.