![]() ![]() "I'm at the back of the stage and to the left is the guitar player and to the right is the bass player," Chambers says. He says he thinks about them every time he plays a show. While he enjoys playing the Pretenders’ new material live and hopes to perform on their next album, Chambers says the band has never been the same for him since Honeyman-Scott’s and Farndon's deaths. ![]() The band has since released albums about once every four years with a variety of lineups. ![]() They followed with the album “Learning to Crawl” (1984), which hit No. Hynde and Chambers carried on with a new Pretenders lineup and released the hit single “Back on the Chain Gang” (1983). Photos: Patti Smith in performance at the Montclair Literary Festival Television: Dylan Hartigan of 'The Voice' hails from Wyckoff Music: Justin Timberlake wows fans with high-energy Madison Square Garden show The Pretenders upward trajectory came to a crashing halt when Honeyman-Scott died of drug abuse in June 1982, two days after the band fired Farndon for his substance abuse problems. The records included many of the band’s best-known songs, including “Brass in Pocket,” “Talk of the Town,” “Kid,” “Message of Love” and a cover of the Kinks’ “Stop Your Sobbing.” Both albums were Top 10 hits in America and the U.K., where the band’s debut hit No. The lineup was responsible for the band’s first two albums, “Pretenders” (1980) and “Pretenders II” (1981). The original Pretenders roster also included the guitarist James Honeyman-Scott and the bassist Pete Farndon. We put together a great band and it worked immediately.” “She knows how to sing, which is different form just having a good voice, and writes an incredible lyric. “She hadn't performed much at the time the band formed, but the key is the songs and her range of material was fantastic,” he says. Chambers says it was evident from the start that Hynde was a special talent. ![]()
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