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Chrissy Hynde and the Pretenders

The Pretenders are an Anglo-American band. The original band consisted of group founder and main song writer Chrissie Hynde, James Honeyman, Pete Farndon and Martin Chambers. 

Hynde, originally from Akron, Ohio, attended  Kent State University at the time of the Kent State shootings in 1970. Hynde moved to London in 1973, dated the English rock critic Nick Kent, and from there began writing for the weekly music paper, New Musical Express. After several years of false starts, including the bands Masters of the Backside and The Moors Murderers, she finally formed The Pretenders, and moved definitively from writing to performing.

Chrissy Hynde at work.