The subsequent full album Pretenders II would peak at #7 UK, #10 in Billboard, but sadly it would be the final effort of the original band, the reasons Chrissie Hynde delves into quite frankly in this classic rock interview. Nevertheless, she and original members guitarist James Honeyman-Scott, bass player Pete Farndon, and drummer Martin Chambers quickly followed up the impressive debut with an Extended Play mini-album containing two of my personal Pretenders favorites, “Message of Love” and the brilliant, surprisingly mature “Talk of the Town”. In the course of discussing “Precious”,”Mystery Achievement”, The Pretenders’ cover of The Kinks’ “Stop Your Sobbing”, and Chrissie’s authentic portrayal of a greasy spoon diner waitress in the video to “Brass in Pocket”, I must admit that I was intimidated by how this supposed rock rookie took control of the conversation, and grew indignant at any perceived slight by the interviewer.
To say that our initial live interview was tense the next day is an understatement. Although the band had been there less than 24 hours, Chrissie had already spent the night in a Memphis jail, but not before she kicked out the rear window of a police cruiser which had been called to escort her away from the local TGI Friday’s restaurant.
The first was my live radio interview on ROCK 103 while in Memphis during their first U.S. I’ll never forget my first two encounters with The Pretenders singer/songwriter.
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