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Back on the Chain Gang

Certain Songs #1639: Pretenders – “Back on the Chain Gang”

September 24, 2019 by Jim Connelly

Album: Learning to Crawl
Year: 1982

SPOILER ALERT: There was no Pretenders III.

And in fact, it’s kind of amazing that there was any new Pretenders music ever again after the events of June, 1982. First, Chrissie Hynde discovered she was pregnant by Ray Davies, then Pete Farndon was kicked out of the band for heroin abuse, and James Honeyman-Scott died of a cocaine overdose. Boom. Boom. Boom.

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