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Whilst their tour schedule for May 2020 has been postponed due to COVID-19 certain dates have been rescheduled to September 2021.Ĭhrissie Hynde was represented by manager Ian Grenfell at Quietus Management, lawyer Andrew Myers at Clintons and accountant Pat Savage at YMU. I’ll Stand By You re-entered the charts with Girls Aloud in 2004, reaching No.1 in the UK, and with American country singer Carrie Underwood, reaching No.6 of the Billboard Hot 100.Ĭhrissie Hynde continues to release albums and tour globally with The Pretenders. I’ll Stand by You, which reached the Top 20 in several countries and has been streamed over 250 million times.Their hit Christmas Song 2000 Miles, which has been streamed over 100 million times.The song was also a UK Top 10 hit in the singles chart. Don’t Get Me Wrong, which has been streamed over 150 million times and was the group’s second Top 10 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 as well as reaching No.1 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock charts.The Song was covered by Morrissey in 2008 calling the song “a pop classic, of the brain as well as the loins”. Back on the Chain Gang, which has been streamed over 150 million times and was The Pretender’s biggest US hit reaching No.5 on the Billboard Hot 100 and No.4 on Billboard’s Hot Mainstream Rock Tracks chart.
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of Texas Press 2017) was called “gloriously comprehensive truly does deliver the goods,” by Pop Matters. Donations for the band are gladly welcomed.Īdam Sobsey’s book Chrissie Hynde: A Musical Biography (Univ. A Q&A will follow, and signed copies of Sobsey’s book will be available at a discount. It’s a true School of Rock: informative, fun, and properly loud. Sobsey will read from his book’s investigations of several Pretenders songs-from early classics to late-career gems-each accompanied by live renditions of those songs. Hynde’s biographer, Adam Sobsey, is joined by a combo of local musicians for an evening of exploration of the music and life of one of rock music’s greats. Chrissie Hynde, leader of the Hall of Fame band the Pretenders, is one of America’s foremost rockers: a musical force across four decades, a voice for the ages, a feminist icon, and a great songwriter who has given us iconic songs like “Brass in Pocket,” “Back on the Chain Gang,” and “I’ll Stand by You.” Greensboro Project Space presents a unique rock & roll & reading event.