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THE PRETENDERS
Hereford, GB
* 3/1978

Line-Up (2008):

Chrissie Hynde - voc,g
James Walbourne - g
Eric Heywood - g
Nick Wilkinson - bg
Martin Chambers - ds

Former Members:

James Honeyman-Scott (g, 3/78-6/82); Billy Bremner (g, 9/82-2/83, 1989-?); Robbie McIntosh (g, 4/83-1987); Johnny Marr (g, 1987-89); Dominic Miller (g, 1989-?); Adam Seymour (g, 1994-cca 10/02)

Pete Farndon (bg, 3/78-6/82); Tony Butler (bg, 9/82-2/83); Malcolm Foster (bg, 4/83-cca 11/83); T.M. Stevens (bg, 1986-89); Andy Hobson (bg); John McKenzie (bg, 1989-?); Andy Hobson (1994-cca 10/02)

Gerry Mackleduff (ds, 3/78-1979); Martin Chambers (ds, 1979-86, 1994-cca 10/02); Blair Cunningham (ds, 1986-?); Mark Brzezicki (ds, 2/90-?); Jim Keltner (ds, cca 7/08)

Paul Carrack (kb, 1984); Bernie Worrell (kb, 10/86-87); Rupert Black (kb, do 1989); Mitchell Froom (kb, 1989-?)

Albums Discography:

#	Title	Release Date	Label	Type	UK	USA
1.	Pretenders produced by: Chris Thomas	04.01.1980	Real		1	9
2.	Pretenders II produced by: Chris Thomas	07.08.1981	Real		7	10
3.	Learning To Crawl produced by: Chris Thomas featuring: Billy Bremner (g), Tony Butler (bg), Andrew Bodnar (bg), Paul Carrack (kb)	13.01.1984	Real		11	4
4.	Get Close	01.11.1986	WEA		6	25
5.	The Singles	10/1987	WEA		6	69
6.	Packed!	22.05.1990	WEA		19	48
7.	Last Of The Independents produced by: Bob Clearmountain	10.05.1994	WEA		8	41
8.	Don't Get Me Wrong	7/1994	Warner Bros
9.	The Isle Of View	24.10.1995	WEA		23	100
10.	The Singles	1/1998	WEA		47
11.	Viva El Amor produced by: Steve Hague	22.06.1999	WEA		32	158
12.	Greatest Hits	9/2000	Warner Bros		21
13.	Loose Screw produced by: Jonathan Quarmby/Kevin Bacon	19.11.2002	Artemis		55	179
14.	Losing	25.11.2003
15.	Pirate Radio (4CD+DVD box set)	14.03.2006	Rhino
16.	Break Up The Concrete	23.09.2008	Shangri-La Music			32
17.	The Best Of / Break Up The Concrete (2CD)	30.05.2009	Rhino		35
18.	Original Album Series (5CD box set)	02.03.2010	Rhino
19.	Pretenders: Live In London	10.05.2010	Strobosonic
20.	Pretenders The Vinyl Collection 1979-1999 (9LP box set)	19.05.2015	Demon
21.	Alone produced by: Dan Auerbach	21.10.2016	BMG		40	150
22.	Hate For Sale produced by: Stephen Street	17.07.2020	BMG		29
23.	Relentless	01.09.2023	Parlophone		25

Billy Bremner:

#	Title	Release Date	Label	Type	UK	USA
1.	Bash!	27.04.1984	Arista
2.	A Good Week's Work	14.09.1998	Hypertension/BMG

Mitchell Froom:

#	Title	Release Date	Label	Type	UK	USA
1.	Dopamine	13.07.1998	Atlantic
2.	Thousand Days	02.08.2005	Inner Knot

T.M. Stevens:

#	Title	Release Date	Label	Type	UK	USA
1.	Boom credited to: T.M. Stevens Out Of Control	1996	USG
2.	Shocka Zooloo: T.M. Stevens Live	16.07.2002	United One

Chrissie Hynde:

#	Title	Release Date	Label	Type	UK	USA
1.	Stockholm produced by: Bjorn Yttling	09.06.2014	Will Travel		22	36
2.	Valve Bone Woe & Valve Bone Woe	9/2019	BMG		32
3.	Standing In The Doorway: Chrissie Hynde Sings Bob Dylan	8/2021	BMG		47

Singles Discography:

#	SP/EP Title	Release Date	Label	UK	USA
1.	Stop Your Sobbing / The Wait produced by: Nick Lowe	19.01.1979	Real	28
2.	Kid / Tattooed Love Boys produced by: Chris Thomas	06.07.1979	Real	33
3.	Brass In The Pocket / Swinging London 12" + Nervous But Shy	11/1979	Real	1	92
4.	Brass In The Pocket / Space Invader	2/1980	Sire		14
5.	Talk Of The Town / Cuban Slide And Slide produced by: Chris Thomas	28.03.1980	Real	5
6.	Stop Your Sobbing / Phone Call	5/1980	Sire		65
7.	Message Of Love / Porcelain 7"(2) + Talk Of The Town / Cuban Slide And Slide	06.02.1981	Real	8	27
8.	Louie Louie / In The Sticks	8/1981	Sire		110
9.	Day After Day / In The Sticks 12" + The Adultress 7"(2) + Stop Your Sobbing / Kid	28.08.1981	Real	45
10.	I Go To Sleep / The English Rose 12" + Waste Not, Want Not	11/1981	Real	7
11.	Back On The Chain Gang / (part 2) 12" + My City Was Gone	24.09.1982	Real	15	5
12.	2.000 Miles / The Law Is The Law 12" + Money (live)	18.11.1983	Real	14
13.	Middle Of The Road / 2.000 Miles	11/1983	Sire		19
14.	Middle Of The Road / Watching The Clothes 12" + Thumbelina	10.02.1984	Real	81
15.	Show Me / Fast Or Slow (The Law Is The Law)	3/1984	Sire		28
16.	Thin Line Between Love And Hate / Time The Avenger 12" + Bad Boys Get Spanked	4/1984	Real	49	83
17.	Don't Get Me Wrong / Dance	10/1986	WEA	8	10
18.	Hymn To Her / Room Full Of Mirrors 12" + Stop Your Sobbing (demo)	12/1986	WEA	5
19.	My Baby / Room Full Of Mirrors	1/1987	Warner Bros		64
20.	My Baby / Tradition Of Love (remix) 12" + Thumbelina 7"(2) + Private Life / Middle Of The Road	3/1987	WEA	84
21.	Hymn To Her / Tradition Of Love (v USA)	4/1987	Warner Bros
22.	If There Was A Man / Where Has Everybody Gone 12" + Into Vienna	8/1987	WEA	49
23.	Kid (remix) / Stop Your Sobbing 12",CD + What You Gonna Do About It ('87 remix)	10/1987	WEA
24.	Windows Of The World / 1969	4/1989	Polydor
25.	Never Do That / Not A Second Time 12" + The Wait CD + Spirit Of Life	5/1990	WEA	81
26.	Sense Of Purpose / Spirit Of Life 12" + Brass In Pocket CD + Not A Second Time	23.08.1990	WEA
27.	I'm Not In Love	16.03.1993
28.	Don't Get Me Wrong	13.07.1993
29.	I'll Stand By You / Rebel Rock Me CD1 + Bold As Love CD2 + Message Of Love / Brass In Pocket / Don't Get Me Wrong	18.04.1994	WEA	9	16
30.	Night In My Veins / Bad Boys Get Spanked CD + My City Was Gone / Tattooed Love Boys	27.06.1994	WEA	25	71
31.	977 / I'll Stand By You (live) CD1 + Hollywood Perfume (live) / Kid (live) CD2 + Back On The Chain Gang / Night In My Veins / Precious (all live)	03.10.1994	WEA	66
32.	Kid (acoustic) / The Isle Of View (acoustic) CD + Creep (acoustic)	09.10.1995	WEA	73
33.	2000 Miles (acoustic) / Tequila CD + Happy Christmas / Night In My Veins	11/1995	WEA	82
34.	Human	03.05.1999		33
35.	Popstar	26.07.1999
36.	Kid 2000	15.05.2000	Distinctive Breaks/Virgin	32
37.	Complex Person	11/2002	Artemis
38.	You Know Who Your Friends Are	5/2003	Eagle	84
39.	Time (Junior Vasquez remixes)	07.07.2003	Artemis
40.	Private Life & Grace Jones	20.02.2006	Select Cuts
41.	Don't Get Me Wrong & EFM	25.12.2006	EFM
42.	A Broken Heart Cries	26.03.2007
43.	Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus / Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas / Blue Christmas	12/2008
44.	2000 Miles	12/2015	Rhino	62
45.	Holy Commotion	9/2016
46.	Just Be Yourself / It's Everything About You	18.11.2016	Family Group
47.	Let's Get Lost feat. Neil Tennant	10.02.2017	Liberation Music
48.	2000 Miles	12/2017	Rhino	64
49.	2000 Miles	12/2018	Rhino	65
50.	2000 Miles	12/2019	Rhino	61
51.	The Buzz	3/2020	BMG Rights
52.	You Can't Hurt A Fool	16.04.2020
53.	Turf Accountant Daddy	14.05.2020
54.	2000 Miles	12/2020	Rhino	62
55.	2000 Miles	11/2021	Rhino	59
56.	2000 Miles	12/2022	Rhino	51
57.	Let The Sun Come In	11.05.2023	Parlophone
58.	2000 Miles	11/2023	Rhino	42

Chrissie Hynde:

#	SP/EP Title	Release Date	Label	UK	USA
1.	I Got You Babe & UB 40	7/1985	Dep Int.	1
2.	Breakfast In Bed & UB 40	5/1988	Dep Int.	3
3.	State Of Independence & Moodswings	9/1991
4.	Spiritual High (State Of Independence) & Moodswings	11.01.1993	Arista	47
5.	Love Can Build A Bridge / Help CD + Can't Get Enough Of Your Love & Neneh Cherry & Cher & Eric Clapton & Bananarama & Tom Jones	06.03.1995	London	1
6.	Kid 2000 & Hybrid	22.05.2000	Virgin
7.	Aria E. Memoria & Alessandro Safina	3/2001
8.	Straight Ahead (Geradeaus) & Tube & Berger	26.01.2004	Direction	29
9.	Postcard From London & Ray Davies	07.12.2009
10.	Dark Sunglasses / Torniquet (Cynthia Ann)	19.04.2014	Caroline
11.	You or No One	06.05.2014	Caroline
12.	Caroline, No with The Valve Bone Woe Ensemble	5/2019	BMG Rights
13.	How Glad I Am with The Valve Bone Woe Ensemble	8/2019	BMG Rights

Billy Bremner:

#	SP/EP Title	Release Date	Label	UK	USA
1.	Loud Music In Cars	16.10.1981	Stiff
2.	When Laughter Turns To Tears / Tired And Emotional (And Probably Drunk)	26.02.1982	Stiff
3.	Shatterproof	17.02.1984	Arista
4.	Love Goes To Sleep / Loud Music In Cars	04.05.1984	Arista

Videos:

1. Greatest Hits - 4/2001, Warner Music, 122 min
2. The Isle Of View - 3/2004, Warner Music, 75 min
3. Pretenders: Live In London - 10.05.2010, Strobosonic, live

Movies:

1. Indecent Proposal (1993, track "I'm Not In Love")

Bibliography:

Chrissie Hynde: Reckless: My Life as a Pretender (8.9.2015, Doubleday)

Awards:

2005 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame
2016 Grammy Hall Of Fame (LP "The Pretenders", 1980)

Various:

Compilation Appearances:

"Bold As Love" on Jimi Hendrix Tribute LP "Stone Free" (1993)
"I'm Not In Love" on OST "Indecent Proposal" (1993, BMG)
"Middle Of The Road" on compilation "The Best Of Hard Rock Live" (24.6.00, Sire)
"Space Invader" on OST "The Sopranos - Music From The HBO Original Series - Peppers & Eggs" (8.5.01, Columbia)
"Something To Believe In" on The Ramones tribute LP "We're a Happy Family - A Tribute to the Ramones" (5.11.02, DV8/Columbia)
"Get Out Of London" on OST "The Wild Thornberrys" (26.11.02, Nick/Jive)
"I'll Stand By You" on compilation "Oh! From The Girls" (11/03, Nettwerk America)
"Complex Person (Novel & Jones remix)" on benefit LP "Genocide In Sudan" (11/04, Waxploitation)
"Brass In Pocket" on compilation "Teenage Kicks" (4.4.05)

appeared on the LP:

Tom Jones: Reload (6.9.99, Gut)

Chrissie Hynde:

5.5.1984 married Jimem Kerrem (Simple Minds)
16.10.92 Bob Dylan 30th Anniversary Concert (Madison Square Garden, NY)

appeared on the SP:

Moodswings: Spiritual High (State Of Independence) (11.1.93, Arista)
Inxs: The Gift (11.10.93, Mercury)

appeared on the LP:

Chris Spedding: Hurt (1/78)
Johnny Thunders: So Alone (10/78, Real)
Moodswings: Moodfood (1.2.93, Arista)
Neil Young: Road Rock Vol. 1 (5.12.00, Reprise)
Jools Holland: More Friends - Small World Big Band 2 (11/02, WSM)
Blind Boys Of Alabama: Go Tell It on the Mountain (16.9.03, Real World)
Gloria Estefan: Unwrapped (23.9.03, Sony Music)
Phil Manzanera: 6PM (19.7.04, Expression)
Rod Stewart: One Night Only! Rod Stewart Live at Royal Albert Hall (7.12.04, J)
Ringo Starr: Choose Love (7.6.05, Koch)
Nick Lowe: At My Age (26.6.07, Yep Roc)
Morrissey: Years Of Refusal (23.2.09, Polydor)
Robert Plant: Carry Fire (13.10.17, Nonesuch)
Taylor Hawkins And The Coattail Riders: Get The Money (8.11.19, Shanabelle)

Compilation Appearances:

"Superstar" on OST Wayne's World 2 (1994, & Urge Overkill)
"Everything I Own" on OST "Happy Feat" (31.10.06, Atlantic)
"Let It Be" on compilation "The Art Of McCartney" (17.11.14)

Mitchell Froom:

17.3.1995 marriede Suzanne Vega
1999 rozvod

produced by LP:

Elvis Costello: King Of America (2/86, WEA)
Crowded House: Crowded House (8/86, Capitol)
Paul McCartney: Flowers In The Dirt (6/89)
American Music Club: Mercury (15.3.93, Virgin)
Richard Thompson: Mirror Blue (1/94, Capitol)
Elvis Costello: Brutal Youth (7.3.94, WEA)
Cibo Matto: Viva! La Woman (25.3.96, WEA)
Richard Thompson: you?me?us? (22.4.96, Capitol)
Ron Sexsmith: Other Songs (8/97, Interscope)
Ron Sexsmith: Whereabouts (18.5.99)
Joan Osborne: Righteous Love (12.9.00, Interscope)
Los Lobos: The Ride (4.5.04, Hollywood)
The Finn Brothers: Everyone Is Here (8/04, Nettwerk)
Ron Sexsmith: Time Being (23.5.06, V2)
Indigo Girls: Despite Our Differences (19.9.06, Hollywood)
Randy Newman: Harps And Angels (5.8.08, Nonesuch)
Indigo Girls: Poseidon And The Bitter Bug (24.3.09, IG)

appeared on the LP:

David LaFlamme: White Bird (12/76, Amherst)
David LaFlamme: Inside Out (7.4.78, Amherst)
Richard Thompson: Daring Adventures (10/86, Polydor)
Richard Thompson: Mirror Blue (1/94, Capitol)
Lisa Germano: Slide (12.10.98)
Neil Finn: One Nil (9.4.01, Parlophone)
Laurie Anderson: Life On A String (21.8.01, Atlantic)

T.M. Stevens:

appeared on the LP:

Billy Squier: Enough Is Enough (1986, Capitol)
Joe Cocker: One Night Of Sin (1989, Island)

Billy Bremner:

appeared on the LP:

Dave Edmunds: Get It (8.4.77, Swan Song)
Nick Lowe: The Jesus Of Cool (2/78, Radar)
Dave Edmunds: Repeat When Necessary (8.6.79, Swan Song)
Nick Lowe: Labour Of Lust (8.6.79, Radar)
Kirsty MacColl: Desperate Character (7/81, Polydor)
Nick Lowe: Nick The Knife (12.2.82, F-Beat)
The Pretenders: Learning To Crawl (13.1.84, Real)

John McKenzie:

appeared on the LP:

Jeffrey Lee Pierce: Wildweed (4/85, Statik)

Robbie McIntosh:

appeared on the LP:

Talk Talk: The Colour Of Spring (2/86, EMI)
Talk Talk: Spirit Of Eden (9/88, Parlophone)
Tears For Fears: The Seeds Of Love (7.10.89, Fontana)
Jana Kirschner: Shine (16.4.07, Universal)

appeared on the SP:

Mark Knopfler: Going Home (15.3.24)

James Walbourne:

appeared on the LP:

Edwyn Collins: Understated (25.3.13, AED)

Press References:

&musiQ
Year	Issue	Date	Page	Column	Type
2002	10		18	Pelmel
Bang!
Year	Issue	Date	Page	Column	Type
1994	20	01.06.1994	6	Big Bang!
1994	22	15.06.1994	16		profile
Big Beng!
Year	Issue	Date	Page	Column	Type
1999	22	10.06.1999	6	Infokus	interview
1999	22	10.06.1999	12	Live	gig review
1999	23	17.06.1999	27	Forum kritikum	album review
2001	4	22.02.2001	36		profile, discography
2001	4	22.02.2001	42	Forum kritikum	album review
2001	5	08.03.2001	8	Infokus
Hurricane
Year	Issue	Date	Page	Column	Type
1987	3		30		profile
Melodie
Year	Issue	Date	Page	Column	Type
1980	8		242		gig review
1982	9		265	Ze světa
1983	7		215	Ze světa
1983	10		306		profile
1991	7		27	Recenze	album review
Melody Maker
Year	Issue	Date	Page	Column	Type
1979	3	20.01.1979	23	Singles	single review
1979	23	23.06.1979	24	News
1979	28	28.07.1979	23	Caught In The Act	gig review
1979	39	13.10.1979	3	News
1979	51	22.12.1979	3	News
1980	11	15.03.1980	35	Caught In The Act	gig review
1980	13	29.03.1980	21	Singles	single review
1980	34	04.10.1980	15		interview
1980	36	18.10.1980	46	Caught In The Act	gig review
1981	5	31.01.1981	5	News
1981	6	07.02.1981	13	Singles	single review
1981	30	25.07.1981	3	Fast Forward
1981	30	25.07.1981	27	Caught In The Act	gig review
1981	35	29.08.1981	11	Singles	single review
1981	37	12.09.1981	24		interview
1981	41	10.10.1981	5	Fast Forward
1981	44	31.10.1981	3	Fast Forward
1981	45	07.11.1981	14	Singles	single review
1981	50	12.12.1981	3	Fast Forward
1982	26	26.06.1982	3	Fast Forward
1982	36	04.09.1982	3	Fast Forward
1982	40	02.10.1982	23	Singles	single review
1982	43	23.10.1982	4	Fast Forward
1983	19	07.05.1983	3	Fast Forward
1983	38	17.09.1983	3	Fast Forward
1983	45	05.11.1983	3	Fast Forward
1983	46	12.11.1983	3	Fast Forward - Record News
1983	47	19.11.1983	26	Singles	single review
1984	1	07.01.1984	4	Fast Forward - Record News
1984	2	14.01.1984	15	It's Alive	gig review
1984	2	14.01.1984	23	Albums	album review
1984	6	11.02.1984	22	Singles	single review
1984	19	12.05.1984	23	It's Alive	gig review
1984	24	28.07.1984	16		interview
1994	11	19.03.1994	4	News
1994	16	23.04.1994	27	Singles	single review
1994	19	14.05.1994	14	Live	gig review
1994	19	14.05.1994	30	Albums	album review
1994	26	02.07.1994	27	Glastonbury '94
1994	40	08.10.1994	34	Singles	single review
1995	41	14.10.1995	36	Singles	single review
1996	17	27.04.1996	55		single review
1997	1	04.01.1997	32	Live	gig review
Rock & Pop
Year	Issue	Date	Page	Column	Type
1991	10	24.05.1991	26	Recenze	album review
1991	19	27.09.1991	9		profile
1994	12	21.06.1994	27	Recommandé	album review
1995	24	05.12.1995	29	Recenze	album review
1999	7		78		profile
1999	7		103	Recenze - Novinky	album review
2001	1		110	Recenze - Best Of	album review
2001	6		115	Recenze - DVD
2004	4		87	DVD
2009	2		82	Loop	profile
2009	7		70	Record	album review
Rolling Stone
Year	Issue	Date	Page	Column	Type
1999	4		80	Naživo	gig review
1999	6		58
Spark
Year	Issue	Date	Page	Column	Type
2003	7		54	Records	album review