 | The Pretenders' first-ever boxed set features over five hours of career-spanning music on four CDs. Also includes a DVD with never-before-released performances from 1979-1995.
Release date: March 14, 2006
On Brass in Pocket, one of their earliest singles - and their first to chart in the US, scoring #14 in Billboard - Chrissie Hynde sings, "I'm special, so special, I gotta have some of your attention, give it to me." Formed in London in '78 with Hynde, James Honeyman Scott, Martin Chambers, and Pete Farndon, the band received massive attention for that hit and other stellar songs from their 1980 self-titled debut album.
Via impeccable musicianship and Hynde's charismatic persona - equal parts cool swagger, tough-but vulnerable lyrics and vocals, and idiosyncratic rhythm guitar - The Pretenders reinvented the concept of a woman in rock 'n' roll and became one of the most popular and distinctive acts in the world. Chrissie Hynde's singular presence has never ceased to build on their artistic legacy, chronicled now for the first time in Pirate Radio.
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