Date: Jan 19, 1980 (release)
Release: Warner Brothers #6083
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When I was in junior high, I really, really wanted to be Chrissie Hynde. A regular American heartland chick from Akron, Ohio, she lived out the rock ‘n’ roll fantasy of every early-’80s, MTV-addicted, suburban girl like myself. She moved to swinging London, where she landed a job at Malcolm McLaren and Vivienne Westwood’s SEX boutique, rubbed safety-pinned shoulders with the Sex Pistols, wrote for NME under the tutelage of demi-legendary rock scribe Nick Kent, and even won the heart of her long-admired teenhood heartthrob, Ray Davies of the Kinks (this is the equivalent of me bagging Duran Duran’s John Taylor now). Oh yeah–and she also formed a totally fierce, foxy, all-around fearsomely great band with three Brit gents and, in 1980, released one of the most kickass debut albums in rock history: the Pretenders I.
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