Chords for Chrissie Hynde on the BBC's Andrew Marr show in 2015.

_ Now a few people in rock have had the musical and cultural impact of Chrissie Hine arriving in London
40 years ago just in time for punk she seized the opportunity to create a band that has [Bm] really stood the test of time
The pretenders were a non-stop hit [Am] machine Hines own life a non-stop roller coaster
She's [D] detailed the triumphs the tragedies and indeed the [A] lessons learned in her autobiography entitled reckless
Chrissie's here.
We'll be talking in a moment.
But first a [E] reminder of the great pretenders
I'm gonna use my fingers _ _ _
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I was watching to see if your foot was tapping.
You say you hate that song.
Oh, no, I love seeing the guys
Jimmy and Pete and Martin [N] when we call you a pretender.
You're also a survivor
I mean a remarkable feat Chrissy to have just kept going the kind of hits that you've come up with
There's been no musical collaboration that you haven't flirted with and enacted what's been behind all that momentum
Do you think I just love music and I grew up in a time when there was all the best bands were out
You know, I I guess the first album I ever bought was meet the Beatles.
So I was about 14
So, you know, it's just so I just grew up in a great time for music and that's what I fell in love with was
Banned so that's just always been my incentive to be a band person and your autobiography you've called reckless
When you read it, it's very raw.
It's very blunt
I can't work out whether it's it's sort of catharsis or torture for you to have written that
Oh, I've tried to think of it as more of like, you know a comic book
I thought it was a fun supposed to be a fun read like an album should be fun to listen to although I think if
There's any truth in in a record there's gonna be some pain in it because you know, you're touching upon human experience
So that's inevitable
You waited until your parents were no longer here before sort of what telling them about everything that happened in your life
Yeah, I got that out of the way on the first page because I I do feel you know
This is doing it behind their backs
But I did a lot behind their backs and I don't think they would have enjoyed reading this book and I didn't want to
You know, what about your girls?
I mean, what was there anything in that that shocked your children now?
I didn't discuss that with them.
You know, they've always been very encouraging and they seem to be they've read it
Have they I think they have I think they they seem to be fans of what I do
And they're always encouraging me and saying that they they they never saw one of my shows
So they're about 14 because it was always past their bedtime
So they didn't grow up as rock and roll kids or anything.
They've had their own
What people concerned about you if you like?
I don't know spilling the beans or bringing the skeletons out the code Ray Davis the kinks
We understand any skeletons out there.
I mean, I don't think he wanted to be in the book, but then
probably a lot of people wouldn't want to be in someone's story, but
You know that story wasn't complete without it
But I don't say anything bad about anyone or I don't think you know, I like I tried to keep it light
I could have gone dark, but I don't think that's the purpose of me telling my story
I certainly didn't want to you describe the moment that you turned up to marry Ray Davis at the registry office and you were arguing
So badly that they they wouldn't marry you.
Yeah.
Well, you know that happens to people
more than once
Not in that case.
No, and did he did he mind that when he actually we were talking about him?
The one person who asked not to be in the book
Did that create any waves any problems for you or was that fine?
Did he what since he's been in the book?
I don't know.
I think he probably would like his _ _ I think he came out very well in it
Yeah, there are many surreal moments in that book whether it's dueting with Sinatra whether it's Morris
He is collaborating
one of your
Faces fans Julie Burchill said your music said the music was what it might have sounded like if John Wayne had climbed off the horse
And joined the Shangri-las.
Well, you know Julie's a very poetic writer and I appreciate that.
I have a big fan of her so
Now I know you didn't like the song you just heard there.
What is do you have a favorite hit?
You're playing us out on one later
But um, I like a lot of the what you'd call the album tracks that were more the rock tracks, you know, there's a
Radio friendly records which are the ones that most people hear and I like the more, you know
Rock stuff that was you'd have to be a pretenders fan to really like Angela Eagle will know all of that catalog
_ Thank you very much _ [C] Damon Albarn's part as frontman for the band.
Bye.
Bye
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