They fired Farndon less than a week before the recording date because of problems caused by his drug use. But by the time the Pretenders recorded the song, the song's meaning had changed. Hynde originally wrote the song about Ray Davies of The Kinks, with whom Hynde had been romantically involved. "Back on the Chain Gang" was released in 1982. The cover of the Pretenders' first album shows, from left, Pete Farndon, Chrissie Hynde, Martin Chambers, and James Honeyman-Scott. Hynde played guitar and was the band's lead singer and main songwriter. They eventually settled on guitarist and keyboard player James Honeyman-Scott and drummer Martin Chambers to fill out the group. That finally happened in '78, when she met bass player Peter Farndon. She toured in a band with Mick Jones, later the Clash's guitarist, but what she really wanted was her own band. Hynde played in bands with members of future punk bands the Clash and the Damned, but eventually returned to Akron, a scheme to qualify for a work permit by marrying Johnny Rotten or Sid Vicious of the Sex Pistols having failed.īy the time Hynde got back to London, it was 1976 and punk rock was getting started. This was in the mid-1970s, just before the punk scene got going. Her next job was at the clothing boutique Sex, run by clothing designer Vivienne Westwood and her husband, Sex Pistols manager Malcolm McLaren. Having studied art in college, she initially got a job at an architectural firm, but Hynde, who had always loved music and had played in bands during college, soon left to write for the well-known British music weekly New Musical Express. Hynde, born in Akron, Ohio, in 1951, moved to London in 1973. The Pretenders was formed in March 1978 by American musician Chrissie Hynde. The first was a short item in Inbound called "Back on the 'unchained' gang?" It was a call for musicians to perform at Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals' EDGE conference as part of a rock band called "CSCMP Unchained." The article title hearkens back to the Pretenders' "Back on the Chain Gang." There were two song titles in our August issue:
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