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The Pretenders

Index The Pretenders

The Pretenders are an English-American rock band formed in Hereford, England, in March 1978. [1]

148 relations: A-side and B-side, Adam Seymour (musician), Airplay, Akron, Ohio, Album, Album-oriented rock, Alone (The Pretenders album), Andy Kaufman, Andy Rourke, Back on the Chain Gang, Band (rock and pop), Belgium, Bernie Worrell, Big Country, Billboard (magazine), Billboard Hot 100, Billy Bremner (musician), Billy Steinberg, Blair Cunningham, Blondie (band), Box set, Brass in Pocket, Break Up the Concrete, Canada, Carlos Alomar, Carwyn Ellis, Central Park, Chrissie Hynde, Chucho Merchán, CMT Crossroads, Cover version, Damon Albarn, Demo (music), Denmark, Denmark Street, Don't Get Me Wrong, Dubai, Emmylou Harris, Environmental movement, Eurythmics, Extended play, Extended Play (Pretenders EP), Faith Hill, Finland, France, Fridays (TV series), G.I. Jane, Germany, Get Close, Haircut One Hundred, ..., Heatwave (festival), Hereford, I Got You Babe, I'll Stand by You, I'm Not in Love, Indecent Proposal, James Honeyman-Scott, James Walbourne, Jimi Hendrix, John Barry (composer), Johnny Marr, Katydids (band), Kid (Pretenders song), Last of the Independents, Learning to Crawl, Live Aid, London, Loose Screw, Mainstream Rock (chart), Malcolm McLaren, Martin Chambers, Masters of the Backside, Middle of the Road (song), Moodswings (band), Motörhead, MTV, My Baby (Pretenders song), My City Was Gone, Netherlands, New wave music, New York City, Nick Lowe, NME, Norway, P-Funk, Packed!, Paul Carrack, Pete Farndon, Phil Taylor (musician), Precious (Pretenders song), Pretenders (album), Pretenders II, Punk rock, Reload (Tom Jones album), Return of the Grievous Angel: A Tribute to Gram Parsons, Rhino Entertainment, Robbie McIntosh, Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, Rock music, Rockpile, Rolling Stone, Shangri-La Music, Shepherd's Bush Empire, Simple Minds, Sire Records, Sonny & Cher, Spain, Steve Strange, Stevie Nicks, Stockholm, Stockholm (Chrissie Hynde album), Stop Your Sobbing, String quartet, Substance abuse, Sweden, T. M. Stevens, Talk of the Town (song), The Avengers (TV series), The Clash, The Damned (band), The Great Pretender, The Impossible Dreamers, The Isle of View, The Kinks, The Living Daylights, The Moors Murderers, The Persuaders (R&B group), The Rush Limbaugh Show, The Smiths, The The, Theme music, Thin Line Between Love and Hate, Tom Jones (singer), Tom Kelly (musician), Tony Butler (musician), Topper Headon, Toronto, UB40, United Kingdom, United States, VH1, Viva el Amor, Vivienne Westwood, Warner Bros. Records, Where Has Everybody Gone?, 10cc, 2000 Miles, 2012 Singapore Grand Prix. Expand index (98 more) »

A-side and B-side

The terms A-side and B-side refer to the two sides of 78, 45, and 33 1/3 rpm phonograph records, or cassettes, whether singles, extended plays (EPs), or long-playing (LP) records.

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Adam Seymour (musician)

Adam Seymour is an English guitarist and songwriter who began his recording career with the Katydids, a south London quintet that recorded two albums before disbanding.

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Airplay

In radio broadcasting, airplay is how frequently a song is being played on radio stations.

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Akron, Ohio

Akron is the fifth-largest city in the U.S. state of Ohio and is the county seat of Summit County.

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Album

An album is a collection of audio recordings issued as a single item on CD, record, audio tape or another medium.

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Album-oriented rock

Album-oriented rock (abbreviated AOR) is an American FM radio format focusing on album tracks by rock artists.

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Alone (The Pretenders album)

Alone is the tenth studio album by English-American rock band The Pretenders.

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Andy Kaufman

Andrew Geoffrey Kaufman (January 17, 1949 – May 16, 1984) was an American entertainer, actor, writer, performance artist, and comedian.

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Andy Rourke

Andrew Michael Rourke (born 17 January 1964) is an English musician, best known as the bassist of the Smiths.

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Back on the Chain Gang

"Back on the Chain Gang" is a song written by Chrissie Hynde and originally recorded by her band the Pretenders, and released as single by Sire Records in September 1982.

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Band (rock and pop)

A rock band or pop band is a small musical ensemble which performs rock music, pop music or a related genre.

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Belgium

Belgium, officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a country in Western Europe bordered by France, the Netherlands, Germany and Luxembourg.

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Bernie Worrell

George Bernard "Bernie" Worrell, Jr. (April 19, 1944 – June 24, 2016) was an American keyboardist and composer best known as a founding member of Parliament-Funkadelic and for his work with Talking Heads.

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Big Country

Big Country are a Scottish rock band formed in Dunfermline, Fife, in 1981.

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Billboard (magazine)

Billboard (styled as billboard) is an American entertainment media brand owned by the Billboard-Hollywood Reporter Media Group, a division of Eldridge Industries.

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Billboard Hot 100

The Billboard Hot 100 is the music industry standard record chart in the United States for songs, published weekly by Billboard magazine.

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Billy Bremner (musician)

William Murray Bremner (born 4 August 1946, Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, Scotland) is a Scottish guitarist, best known for his work in the band Rockpile and on many of Nick Lowe and Dave Edmunds' albums.

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Billy Steinberg

William Endfield "Billy" Steinberg (born February 26, 1950) is an American songwriter.

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Blair Cunningham

Blair Cunningham (born October 11, 1957, Memphis, Tennessee) is an American drummer who has played with Echo & the Bunnymen, Haircut One Hundred, John Foxx, The Pretenders, Paul McCartney, Alison Moyet, Sade, Paul Rutherford, the Indigo Girls, Roxy Music, Tina Turner, Lionel Richie, Mick Jagger, Ray Davis, Andy Taylor, Marius Müller-Westernhagen, Kevin Rowland and The Big Dish.

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Blondie (band)

Blondie is an American rock band founded by singer Debbie Harry and guitarist Chris Stein.

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Box set

A box set or boxed set is a set of items (for example, a compilation of books, musical recordings, films or television programs) packaged in a box, for sale as a single unit.

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Brass in Pocket

"Brass in Pocket" (also known as "Brass in Pocket (I'm Special)") is a 1979 single by The Pretenders.

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Break Up the Concrete

Break Up the Concrete is the ninth studio album by rock group The Pretenders.

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Canada

Canada is a country located in the northern part of North America.

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Carlos Alomar

Carlos Alomar (born 7 May 1951) is a Puerto Rican-American guitarist, composer, and arranger.

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Carwyn Ellis

Carwyn Meurig Ellis (born 9 August 1973) is a Welsh singer-songwriter, composer, record producer, arranger and multi-instrumentalist.

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Central Park

Central Park is an urban park in Manhattan, New York City.

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Chrissie Hynde

Christine Ellen "Chrissie" Hynde (born September 7, 1951) is an American musician who is best known as a founding member of the rock band The Pretenders.

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Chucho Merchán

Jesús Alfredo Merchán (born December 24, 1952, Bogotá, Colombia), commonly known as Chucho Merchán, is a session jazz and rock bassist and guitarist.

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CMT Crossroads

CMT Crossroads is a television show broadcast on CMT that pairs country music artists with musicians from other music genres, frequently trading off performing one another's songs, and also dueting on some numbers.

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Cover version

In popular music, a cover version, cover song, or simply cover, is a new performance or recording by someone other than the original artist or composer of a previously recorded, commercially released song.

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Damon Albarn

Damon Albarn (born 23 March 1968) is an English musician, singer, songwriter, composer and record producer.

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Demo (music)

A demo (from "demonstration") is a song or group of songs recorded for limited circulation or reference use rather than for general public release.

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Denmark

Denmark (Danmark), officially the Kingdom of Denmark,Kongeriget Danmark,.

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Denmark Street

Denmark Street is a street on the edge of London's West End running from Charing Cross Road to St Giles High Street.

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Don't Get Me Wrong

"Don't Get Me Wrong" is a song released by the pop-rock group The Pretenders.

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Dubai

Dubai (دبي) is the largest and most populous city in the United Arab Emirates (UAE).

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Emmylou Harris

Emmylou Harris (born April 2, 1947) is an American singer, songwriter and musician.

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Environmental movement

The environmental movement (sometimes referred to as the ecology movement), also including conservation and green politics, is a diverse scientific, social, and political movement for addressing environmental issues.

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Eurythmics

Eurythmics were a British music duo consisting of members Annie Lennox and David A. Stewart.

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Extended play

An extended play record, often referred to as an EP, is a musical recording that contains more tracks than a single, but is usually unqualified as an album or LP.

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Extended Play (Pretenders EP)

Extended Play is a 1981 EP released by new wave band Pretenders.

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Faith Hill

Audrey Faith McGraw (née Perry; born September 21, 1967), known professionally as Faith Hill, is an American singer and record producer.

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Finland

Finland (Suomi; Finland), officially the Republic of Finland is a country in Northern Europe bordering the Baltic Sea, Gulf of Bothnia, and Gulf of Finland, between Norway to the north, Sweden to the northwest, and Russia to the east.

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France

France, officially the French Republic (République française), is a sovereign state whose territory consists of metropolitan France in Western Europe, as well as several overseas regions and territories.

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Fridays (TV series)

Fridays is the name of ABC's weekly late-night live comedy show, which aired on Friday nights from April 11, 1980 to April 23, 1982.

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G.I. Jane

G.I. Jane is a 1997 American action film directed by Ridley Scott, produced by Largo Entertainment, Scott Free Productions and Caravan Pictures, distributed by Hollywood Pictures and starring Demi Moore, Viggo Mortensen and Anne Bancroft.

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Germany

Germany (Deutschland), officially the Federal Republic of Germany (Bundesrepublik Deutschland), is a sovereign state in central-western Europe.

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Get Close

Get Close is the fourth album by rock group The Pretenders, released in 1986.

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Haircut One Hundred

Haircut One Hundred were a British new wave group formed in 1980 in Beckenham, London by Nick Heyward.

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Heatwave (festival)

Heatwave was a rock festival August 23, 1980, outside of Toronto at Mosport Park, Bowmanville, Ontario.

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Hereford

Hereford is a cathedral city, civil parish and county town of Herefordshire, England.

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I Got You Babe

"I Got You Babe" is a song written by Sonny Bono.

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I'll Stand by You

"I'll Stand by You" is a song recorded by The Pretenders from their sixth studio album, Last of the Independents (1994).

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I'm Not in Love

"I'm Not in Love" is a song by English group 10cc, written by band members Eric Stewart and Graham Gouldman.

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Indecent Proposal

Indecent Proposal is a 1993 American drama film based on the novel of the same name by Jack Engelhard.

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James Honeyman-Scott

James "Jimmy" Honeyman-Scott (4 November 1956 – 16 June 1982) was an English rock guitarist, songwriter and founding member of the band The Pretenders.

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James Walbourne

James Walbourne is a British singer, guitarist, and multi-instrumentalist.

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Jimi Hendrix

James Marshall "Jimi" Hendrix (born Johnny Allen Hendrix; November 27, 1942 – September 18, 1970) was an American rock guitarist, singer, and songwriter.

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John Barry (composer)

John Barry Prendergast, (3 November 1933 – 30 January 2011) was an English composer and conductor of film music.

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Johnny Marr

Johnny Marr (born John Martin Maher; 31 October 1963) is an English musician, songwriter and singer, best known as the guitarist and – with Morrissey – co-songwriter of the Smiths, who were active from 1982 to 1987.

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Katydids (band)

Katydids were an English band, founded by the vocalist Susie Hug and guitarist Adam Seymour, adding Dan James on guitar, David Hunter on bass guitar, and Shane Young on drums in the late 1980s.

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Kid (Pretenders song)

"Kid" is a song written by Chrissie Hynde that was released on the Pretenders 1979 debut album Pretenders.

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Last of the Independents

Last of the Independents is the sixth album by rock group The Pretenders, released in 1994.

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Learning to Crawl

Learning to Crawl is the third studio album by the rock band the Pretenders.

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Live Aid

Live Aid was a dual-venue benefit concert held on 13 July 1985, and an ongoing music-based fundraising initiative.

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London

London is the capital and most populous city of England and the United Kingdom.

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Loose Screw

Loose Screw is the eighth studio album by rock group The Pretenders, and was released in 2002.

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Mainstream Rock (chart)

Mainstream Rock is a music chart in Billboard magazine which ranks the most-played songs on mainstream rock radio stations, a category that combines the formats of active rock and heritage rock.

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Malcolm McLaren

Malcolm Robert Andrew McLaren (22 January 1946 – 8 April 2010) was an English impresario, visual artist, performer, musician, clothes designer and boutique owner, notable for combining these activities in an inventive and provocative way.

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Martin Chambers

Martin Dale Chambers (born 4 September 1951 in Hereford) is an English musician, who is best known as a founding member and drummer of the rock band the Pretenders.

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Masters of the Backside

Masters of the Backside was an early British punk rock group.

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Middle of the Road (song)

"Middle of the Road" is a single that appears on The Pretenders' album Learning to Crawl.

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Moodswings (band)

Moodswings is a musical duo composed of Grant Showbiz and James F.T. Hood.

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Motörhead

Motörhead were an English rock band formed in June 1975 by bassist, singer, and songwriter Ian "Lemmy" Kilmister, who was the sole constant member, guitarist Larry Wallis and drummer Lucas Fox.

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MTV

MTV (originally an initialism of Music Television) is an American cable and satellite television channel owned by Viacom Media Networks (a division of Viacom) and headquartered in New York City.

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My Baby (Pretenders song)

"My Baby" is a song written by Chrissie Hynde that was originally released on the Pretenders 1986 album Get Close.

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My City Was Gone

"My City Was Gone" is a song by the rock group The Pretenders.

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Netherlands

The Netherlands (Nederland), often referred to as Holland, is a country located mostly in Western Europe with a population of seventeen million.

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New wave music

New wave is a genre of rock music popular in the late 1970s and the 1980s with ties to mid-1970s punk rock.

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New York City

The City of New York, often called New York City (NYC) or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States.

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Nick Lowe

Nicholas Drain Lowe (born 24 March 1949), known as Nick Lowe, is an English singer-songwriter, musician, and producer.

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NME

New Musical Express (NME) is a British music journalism website and former magazine that has been published since 1952.

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Norway

Norway (Norwegian: (Bokmål) or (Nynorsk); Norga), officially the Kingdom of Norway, is a unitary sovereign state whose territory comprises the western portion of the Scandinavian Peninsula plus the remote island of Jan Mayen and the archipelago of Svalbard.

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P-Funk

P-Funk (also spelled P Funk or P. Funk) is the repertoire and performers associated with George Clinton.

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Packed!

Packed! is the fifth album by rock group The Pretenders, released in 1990.

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Paul Carrack

Paul Melvyn Carrack (born 22 April 1951) is an English singer, songwriter, composer and multi-instrumentalist who has recorded as both a solo artist and as a member of several popular bands.

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Pete Farndon

Peter Granville Farndon (12 June 1952 – 14 April 1983) was an English bassist and founding member of the rock band the Pretenders.

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Phil Taylor (musician)

Philip John Taylor (21 September 1954 – 11 November 2015), better known as Phil "Philthy Animal" Taylor, was an English rock drummer in the English rock band Motörhead from 1975–1984 and 1987–1992, recording eleven studio albums and four live albums, including No Sleep 'til Hammersmith and Nö Sleep at All.

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Precious (Pretenders song)

"Precious" is a song written by Chrissie Hynde that was first released on the Pretenders' 1980 debut album Pretenders.

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Pretenders (album)

Pretenders is the debut studio album by British-American band The Pretenders, released on 7 January 1980 under Real Records (Sire Records in the United States).

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Pretenders II

Pretenders II is the second studio album by British rock band the Pretenders.

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Punk rock

Punk rock (or "punk") is a rock music genre that developed in the mid-1970s in the United States, United Kingdom, and Australia.

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Reload (Tom Jones album)

Reload is a 1999 album by Tom Jones.

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Return of the Grievous Angel: A Tribute to Gram Parsons

Return of the Grievous Angel: A Tribute to Gram Parsons is a 1999 tribute album to pioneering country rock musician Gram Parsons, co-produced by his one-time singing partner, Emmylou Harris and featuring cover versions of songs written/co-written by or popularized by Parsons, performed by Harris, Beck, Wilco, The Pretenders, Cowboy Junkies, Elvis Costello, Sheryl Crow, Lucinda Williams, David Crosby, Steve Earle, Chris Hillman and many other artists.

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Rhino Entertainment

Rhino Entertainment Company is an American specialty record label and production company founded in 1978.

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Robbie McIntosh

Robbie McIntosh (born 25 October 1957) is an English guitarist.

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Rock and Roll Hall of Fame

The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, located on the shore of Lake Erie in downtown Cleveland, Ohio, recognizes and archives the history of the best-known and most influential artists, producers, engineers, and other notable figures who have had some major influence on the development of rock and roll.

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Rock music

Rock music is a broad genre of popular music that originated as "rock and roll" in the United States in the early 1950s, and developed into a range of different styles in the 1960s and later, particularly in the United Kingdom and in the United States.

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Rockpile

Rockpile was a British rock and roll group of the late 1970s and early 1980s, noted for its strong pub rock, rockabilly and power pop influences, and as a foundational influence on new wave.

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Rolling Stone

Rolling Stone is an American monthly magazine that focuses on popular culture.

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Shangri-La Music

Shangri-La Music is an indie record label based in Santa Monica, California.

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Shepherd's Bush Empire

Shepherd's Bush Empire (currently known as O2 Shepherd's Bush Empire for sponsorship reasons, and formerly called BBC Television Theatre) is a music venue in Shepherd's Bush, London, run by the Academy Music Group.

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Simple Minds

Simple Minds are a Scottish rock band.

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Sire Records

Sire Records is an American record label that is owned by Warner Music Group and distributed by Warner Bros. Records.

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Sonny & Cher

Sonny & Cher were an American pop music duo, actors, singers and entertainers made up of husband-and-wife Sonny and Cher Bono in the 1960s and 1970s.

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Spain

Spain (España), officially the Kingdom of Spain (Reino de España), is a sovereign state mostly located on the Iberian Peninsula in Europe.

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Steve Strange

Steven John Harrington (28 May 1959 – 12 February 2015), better known by his stage name Steve Strange, was a Welsh pop singer.

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Stevie Nicks

Stephanie Lynn Nicks (born May 26, 1948) is an American singer and songwriter.

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Stockholm

Stockholm is the capital of Sweden and the most populous city in the Nordic countries; 952,058 people live in the municipality, approximately 1.5 million in the urban area, and 2.3 million in the metropolitan area.

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Stockholm (Chrissie Hynde album)

Stockholm is the debut solo album by American singer Chrissie Hynde, lead singer of The Pretenders.

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Stop Your Sobbing

"Stop Your Sobbing" is a song written by Ray Davies for the Kinks' debut album, Kinks.

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String quartet

A string quartet is a musical ensemble of four string players – two violin players, a viola player and a cellist – or a piece written to be performed by such a group.

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Substance abuse

Substance abuse, also known as drug abuse, is a patterned use of a drug in which the user consumes the substance in amounts or with methods which are harmful to themselves or others, and is a form of substance-related disorder.

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Sweden

Sweden (Sverige), officially the Kingdom of Sweden (Swedish), is a Scandinavian country in Northern Europe.

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T. M. Stevens

Thomas Michael "T.M." Stevens (born July 28, 1951) is an American bass guitarist from New York City.

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Talk of the Town (song)

"Talk of the Town" is a song written by Chrissie Hynde and performed by the Pretenders.

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The Avengers (TV series)

The Avengers is an espionage British television series created in 1961.

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The Clash

The Clash were an English rock band formed in London in 1976 as a key player in the original wave of British punk rock.

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The Damned (band)

The Damned are an English rock band formed in London, England in 1976 by lead vocalist Dave Vanian, guitarist Brian James, bassist (and later guitarist) Captain Sensible, and drummer Rat Scabies.

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The Great Pretender

"The Great Pretender" is a popular song recorded by The Platters, with Tony Williams on lead vocals, and released as a single on November 3, 1955.

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The Impossible Dreamers

The Impossible Dreamers were a 1980s new-wave band that had a major club hit with their 12" single "Spin", before signing for RCA Records, where they were produced by Johnny Marr (The Smiths).

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The Isle of View

The Isle of View is a live acoustic album by rock band The Pretenders, released in 1995.

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The Kinks

The Kinks are an English rock band formed in Muswell Hill, North London, in 1964 by brothers Ray and Dave Davies.

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The Living Daylights

The Living Daylights is a 1987 British spy film, the fifteenth entry in the ''James Bond'' film series produced by Eon Productions, and the first to star Timothy Dalton as the fictional MI6 agent James Bond.

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The Moors Murderers

The Moors Murderers was a short-lived punk band who caused controversy by naming themselves after the perpetrators of the Moors murders.

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The Persuaders (R&B group)

The Persuaders are a New York City-based R&B vocal group best known for their gold hit single in the 1970s, "Thin Line Between Love and Hate".

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The Rush Limbaugh Show

The Rush Limbaugh Show is a conservative American talk radio show hosted by Rush Limbaugh on Premiere Networks.

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The Smiths

The Smiths were an English rock band formed in Manchester in 1982.

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The The

() are an English post-punk band.

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Theme music

Theme music is a piece that is often written specifically for a radio program, television program, video game or movie, and usually played during the intro, opening credits and/or ending credits.

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Thin Line Between Love and Hate

"Thin Line Between Love and Hate" is the title of a 1971 song by the New York City-based R&B vocal group The Persuaders.

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Tom Jones (singer)

Sir Thomas John Woodward (born 7 June 1940), also known by his stage name Tom Jones, is a Welsh singer.

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Tom Kelly (musician)

Thomas F. 'Tom' Kelly (born circa 1949) is an American musician, best known for his songwriting partnership with Billy Steinberg.

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Tony Butler (musician)

Anthony Earle Peter "Tony" Butler (born 13 February 1957) is an English musician and rock bassist, best known for his work with the Scottish rock band Big Country.

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Topper Headon

Nicholas Bowen "Topper" Headon (born 30 May 1955), known as "Topper" because of his resemblance to Mickey the Monkey from the Topper comic, is an English drummer, best known as the drummer of the punk rock band The Clash.

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Toronto

Toronto is the capital city of the province of Ontario and the largest city in Canada by population, with 2,731,571 residents in 2016.

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UB40

UB40 are an English reggae and pop band, formed in December 1978 in Birmingham, England.

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United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain,Usage is mixed with some organisations, including the and preferring to use Britain as shorthand for Great Britain is a sovereign country in western Europe.

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United States

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States (U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various possessions.

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VH1

VH1 (originally an initialism of Video Hits One) is an American cable and satellite television network based in New York City operated by the Viacom Global Entertainment Group, a unit of Viacom Media Networks, a division of Viacom.

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Viva el Amor

¡Viva El Amor! (Spanish for Long Live Love) is the seventh studio album by the rock band The Pretenders, released in 1999.

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Vivienne Westwood

Vivienne Isabel Westwood (née Swire; born 8 April 1941) is a British fashion designer and businesswoman, largely responsible for bringing modern punk and new wave fashions into the mainstream.

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Warner Bros. Records

Warner Bros.

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Where Has Everybody Gone?

"Where Has Everybody Gone?" is a song by English-American rock band the Pretenders.

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10cc

10cc are an English rock band founded in Stockport, England, who achieved their greatest commercial success in the 1970s.

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2000 Miles

"2000 Miles" is a song by The Pretenders that was released in 1983 as the preceding single to their 1984 album, Learning to Crawl.

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2012 Singapore Grand Prix

The 2012 Singapore Grand Prix was a Formula One motor race that took place at the Marina Bay Street Circuit in Marina Bay, Singapore on 23 September 2012 as the fourteenth round of the 2012 season.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pretenders

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