Bracie Smathers
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Chrissie doesn't give much away but she mentioned that this was about Farndon. When she started the band it was Pete Farndon and Chrissie Hynde. They began sleeping together soon thereafter. Chrissie moved on to Ray Davies and would shove that relationship in the face of Farndon who developed a heroine addiction and he started to become belligerent to the point that James Honey-man Scott issued an ultimatum to Hynde to fire Pete from the band, she did.
Two days later he was dead from a drug overdose, not Farndon but James Honey-Man Scott. They were doing a show in Denver, I had just moved to Colorado a few weeks earlier. I wasn't into the Pretenders at that time but friends of mine were and told me about Farndon being fired and Honey-Man Scott's over dose. Farndon died less than two years after Honey-Man Scott of a drug overdose. Hynde said that she carried on with the Pretenders to honor Scott and Farndon. I think she blames herself and I used to agree with her but doing research into the group for this list it is evident that James was on a path of destruction, that much I am certain.
I wasn't going to do this list because this year is not deep until I saw that I had the Pretenders first album.
This may be my favorite Pretenders song and my top choice for the best song of 1979.
Released 27 December 1979
Two days later he was dead from a drug overdose, not Farndon but James Honey-Man Scott. They were doing a show in Denver, I had just moved to Colorado a few weeks earlier. I wasn't into the Pretenders at that time but friends of mine were and told me about Farndon being fired and Honey-Man Scott's over dose. Farndon died less than two years after Honey-Man Scott of a drug overdose. Hynde said that she carried on with the Pretenders to honor Scott and Farndon. I think she blames herself and I used to agree with her but doing research into the group for this list it is evident that James was on a path of destruction, that much I am certain.
I wasn't going to do this list because this year is not deep until I saw that I had the Pretenders first album.
This may be my favorite Pretenders song and my top choice for the best song of 1979.
Released 27 December 1979