{"id":55966,"date":"2017-09-14T17:00:25","date_gmt":"2017-09-14T15:00:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=55966"},"modified":"2017-09-14T15:36:12","modified_gmt":"2017-09-14T13:36:12","slug":"21-00-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reunion68.se\/?p=55966","title":{"rendered":"THE PRETENDERS TO PERFORM IN TEL AVIV"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5 style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jpost.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"center alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/www.reunion68.com\/Biuletyn\/img\/jpost.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"30%\" \/><\/a><span style=\"text-decoration: underline; color: #000080;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #000080; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.jpost.com\/Israel-News\/Culture\/The-Pretenders-to-perform-in-Tel-Aviv-505073\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">THE PRETENDERS TO PERFORM IN TEL AVIV<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/h5>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><strong>BARRY DAVIS<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<hr style=\"background: #d0e6fa; width: 710px; height: 15px;\" \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><strong>Can a woman in her mid-60s still retain the persona of an attitude-oozing leatherwearing punk? If you\u2019re Chrissie Hynde, the answer is yes, and you best get out of the way if you doubt it.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div id=\"content\" class=\" content-alignment&lt;br \/&gt;&lt;br \/&gt; \">\n<div id=\"watch-description\" class=\"yt-uix-button-panel\">\n<div id=\"watch-description-text\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GFCxKxzsUek\" width=\"680\" height=\"400\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">The 66-year-old Hynde seems remarkably similar to the young American expat music journalist who moved to England in the mid- 1970s and became caught up in the punk rock explosion.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">It\u2019s been 39 years since she joined that musical revolution by forming The Pretenders with three British rockers \u2013 Pete Farndon, James Honeyman-Scott and Martin Chambers \u2013 and establishing herself as one of rock\u2019s all-time great band leaders, male or female.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">\u201cIt was kind of a do-it-yourself time and it was really not about musicianship, it was about personality and attitude,\u201d she told The Guardian last year. \u201cI am very grateful to punk because I was a girl and I felt like if I got in a band I\u2019d be kind of a novelty act, but punk was all about non-discrimination. No one cared, because it was punk, so you know anyone could do anything they wanted.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">One part tuneful pop and one part sassy tuff all fueled by a ferocious rhythmic attack and snarling vocals, The Pretenders were one of the few punk-era bands to cross over to mainstream success with two stunning albums, 1979\u2019s self-titled debut and 1981\u2019s Pretenders II.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">By 1983, both Farndon and Honeyman-Scott had succumbed to drug overdoses, and 1983\u2019s album Learning to Crawl saw Hynde reach even greater heights, summoning her grief and anger to create the band\u2019s masterpiece. 1986\u2019s Get Close, marking the advent of the Hynde solo show\/Pretenders in name only era, spawned number one singles in \u201cDon\u2019t Get Me Wrong\u201d and \u201cMy Baby,\u201d with an even more accessible pop approach.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">That approach reached its extreme on 1994\u2019s Last of the Independents, when Hynde collared professional pop songwriters Tom Kelly and Billy Steinberg to polish her rough edges and provide her with a slick power ballad, \u201cI\u2019ll Stand by You,\u201d that proved to be The Pretenders\u2019 last big hit.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Over the last two decades, through diminished exposure and sales from sporadic releases ranging from 1999\u2019s Viva El to last year\u2019s acclaimed Alone, Hynde, who branched out from her rock star role to become an outspoken animal rights and vegetarian activist, veered back to the more uncompromising, no frills sound she started with.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">\u201cThe only thing I\u2019ve ever offered the public is some music. If they like the music, that\u2019s great, turn on the radio. If they don\u2019t like it, switch it off. I have no other message, other than vegetarianism, which has always been exactly the same thing I said right from day one,\u201d she told The Guardian.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">In the same interview, Hynde expressed disdain for the mantles of musical success that have honored her, such a the Grammys and the Rock &amp; Roll Hall of Fame, to which she and The Pretenders were inducted in 2005.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">\u201cI loathe the Grammys with a vengeance,\u201d she said. \u201cThe whole idea of it, I don\u2019t understand it, I don\u2019t respect it, I don\u2019t get it at all. I think it\u2019s bullshit.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Regarding the Hall of Fame, she added, \u201cI call it the Rock and Roll Hall of Shit\u2026 It\u2019s everything that rock \u2019n\u2019 roll isn\u2019t. It sort of desecrates the name of rock \u2019n\u2019 roll.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Hynde, along with original drummer Chambers and the rest of her band that have backed her over the last decade, reveres rock \u2018n\u2019 roll, something they will demonstrate when The Pretenders make their Israeli debut. Getting back on the chain gang will never have felt so good.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>The Pretenders will perform on Saturday night, September 23, at the Menorah Mivtahim Arena in Tel Aviv.<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong> Share on facebook Share on twitter<\/strong><\/p>\n<hr style=\"background: #d0e6fa; width: 710px; height: 15px;\" \/>\n<div id=\"content\" class=\" content-alignment&lt;br \/&gt;&lt;br \/&gt; \">\n<div id=\"watch-description\" class=\"yt-uix-button-panel\">\n<div id=\"watch-description-text\">\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #808080;\"> twoje uwagi, linki, wlasne artykuly, lub wiadomosci przeslij do: <span style=\"color: #000080;\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a style=\"color: #000080; text-decoration: underline;\" href=\"mailto:webmaster@reunion68.com\">webmaster@reunion68.com<\/a><\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr style=\"width: 710px;\" \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE PRETENDERS TO PERFORM IN TEL AVIV BARRY DAVIS Can a woman in her mid-60s still retain the persona of an attitude-oozing leatherwearing punk? If you\u2019re Chrissie Hynde, the answer is yes, and you best get out of the way if you doubt it. 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