![]() ![]() Andy Kaufman was the guest host of the programme on that night. The band performed "The Adulteress", "Message of Love" and "Louie, Louie". On 18 September 1981 the Pretenders were the musical guest on the US late night sketch comedy show Fridays. Pretenders II included the Extended Play singles, the MTV video success "Day After Day", and popular album-radio tracks "The Adultress", "Birds of Paradise", "Bad Boys Get Spanked", and "The English Roses". The second full-length album, Pretenders II, was released during August 1981. ( Pretenders was subsequently named one of the best albums of all time by VH1, No. 52, and Rolling Stone, No. 155.) The band played at the Heatwave festival during August 1980 near Toronto.ĭuring March 1981, the EP Extended Play was released, containing the UK and US success "Message of Love" and "Talk of the Town", "Porcelain", "Cuban Slide" and a live version of " Precious", recorded in Central Park. Their self-titled debut album was released at the end of December 1979 and was a success in the United Kingdom and the United States both critically and commercially. The Pretenders (original line-up), Dominion Theatre, London, December 1981 ![]() It was followed in June with " Kid", and then in January 1980 the band got to No. 1 in the UK with " Brass in Pocket", which was also successful in the US, reaching No. 14 on the Billboard Hot 100. The band's first single, a cover of the Kinks song " Stop Your Sobbing" (produced by Nick Lowe and recorded at the July Regents Park sessions) was released in January 1979 and gained critical attention. Shortly thereafter Gerry Mcilduff was replaced on drums by Martin Chambers and Hynde named the band "The Pretenders" after the Platters song " The Great Pretender" which was the favourite song of one of her former boyfriends. This band, then without a name, recorded five tracks at Regents Park Studio in July 1978, including "Stop Your Sobbing". Hynde then formed a band composed of Pete Farndon on bass, James Honeyman-Scott on guitar, and Gerry Mcilduff replacing Jon Adkin on drums. Although it was rough, he felt he had seen and heard enough "star potential" to suggest that Hynde form a more permanent band to record for his new label, Real Records. Dave Hill was impressed and arranged a day at Studio 51 to record another demo. He arranged a rehearsal studio in Denmark Street, where a 3-piece band consisting of Hynde, Mal Hart on bass (he had played with Hynde and Steve Strange in the Moors Murderers), and Phil Taylor of Motörhead on drums played a selection of Hynde's original songs. The Pretenders formed in 1978 after Dave Hill at Anchor Records heard some demos of Hynde's music. She was involved with early versions of the Clash and the Damned and played in short-lived bands such as Masters of the Backside (1976) and the Moors Murderers (1978 lineup). Hynde, originally from Akron, Ohio, moved to London in 1973, working at the weekly music paper NME and at Malcolm McLaren and Vivienne Westwood's clothes store. ![]()
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