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Condition: Acceptable: A book with obvious wear. May have some damage to the cover but integrity still intact. ... Acceptable: A book with obvious wear. May have some damage to the cover but integrity still intact. The binding may be slightly damaged but integrity is still intact. Possible writing in margins, possible underlining and highlighting of text, but no missing pages or anything that would compromise the legibility or understanding of the text. See all condition definitionsopens in a new window or tab

Release Year: 2015

ISBN: 9780147521668

Publication Year: 2015

Format: Compact Disc

Language: English

Book Title: Reckless : My Life As a Pretender

Author: Chrissie Hynde

Publisher: Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group

Genre: Biography & Autobiography, Music

Topic: Personal Memoirs, Composers & Musicians, General, Genres & Styles / Rock

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Chrissie Hynde, for nearly four decades the singer/songwriter/ undisputed leader of the Pretenders, is a justly legendary figure. Few other rock stars have managed to combine her swagger, sexiness, stage presence, knack for putting words to music, gorgeous voice and just all-around kick-assedness into such a potent and alluring package. From "Tatooed Love Boys" and "Brass in Pocket" to "Talk of the Town" and "Back on the Chain Gang," her signature songs project a unique mixture of toughness and vulnerability that millions of men and women have related to. A kind of one- woman secret tunnel linking punk and new wave to classic guitar rock, she is one of the great luminaries in rock history. Now, in her no-holds-barred memoir Reckless, Chrissie Hynde tells, with all the fearless candor, sharp humor and depth of feeling we've come to expect, exactly where she came from and what her crooked, winding path to stardom entailed. Her All-American upbringing in Akron, Ohio, a child of postwar power and prosperity. Her soul capture, along with tens of millions of her generation, by the gods of sixties rock who came through Cleveland--Mitch Ryder, David Bowie, Jeff Back, Paul Butterfield and Iggy Pop among them. Her shocked witness in 1970 to the horrific shooting of student antiwar protestors at Kent State. Her weakness for the sorts of men she calls "the heavy bikers" and "the get-down boys." Her flight from Ohio to London in 1973 essentially to escape the former and pursue the latter. Her scuffling years as a brash reviewer for New Musical Express, shop girl at the Malcolm McLaren and Vivienne Westwood boutique 'Craft Must Wear Clothes But The Truth Loves To Go Naked', first-hand witness to the birth of the punk movement, and serial band aspirant. And then ,at almost the last possible moment, her meeting of the three musicians who comprised the original line-up of The Pretenders, their work on the indelible first album "The Pretenders," and the rocket ride to "Instant" stardom, with all the disorientation and hazards that involved. The it all comes crashing back down to earth with the deaths of lead guitarist James Honeyman Scott and bassist Peter Farndon, leaving her bruised and saddened, but far from beaten. Because Chrissie Hynde is, among other things, one of rock's great survivors. We are lucky to be living in a golden age of great rock memoirs. In the aptly titled Reckless , Chrissie Hynde has given us one of the very best we have. Her mesmerizing presence radiates from every line and page of this book.

Product Identifiers

Publisher

Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group

ISBN-10

0147521661

ISBN-13

9780147521668

eBay Product ID (ePID)

210824679

Product Key Features

Publication Year

2015

Topic

Personal Memoirs, Composers & Musicians, General, Genres & Styles / Rock

Book Title

Reckless : My Life As a Pretender

Language

English

Genre

Biography & Autobiography, Music

Author

Chrissie Hynde

Format

Compact Disc

Dimensions

Item Height

1.1in

Item Length

5.9in

Item Weight

9 Oz

Item Width

5.1in

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Trade

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Praise for Reckless : "Chrissie Hynde's autobiography, Reckless , lacks the exquisiteness of Patti Smith's Just Kids , the charm of Bob Dylan's Chronicles and the humor of Keith Richards's Life , but it out-rocks them all. You can read her book and wax nostalgic about band culture in the late '60s and early '70s. Or you can promptly check yourself into rehab. She wouldn't care; as she writes in the prologue, 'I regret half of this story and the other half is the sound you heard.' .... Rock on, Chrissie." -- Sibbie O'Sullivan , The Washington Post "Rich and ragged .... The memoir is certainly candid; you would expect nothing less of the songwriter who laid down lines like 'I just feel pity when you lie, contempt when you cry.' .... [Hynde[ writes just like she lives, and just like she makes music. She does it her way, which is an inimitable multiplicity of things: impulsive, untamed, ragged, proud, a little sad around the edges. This is her story, still unfinished. " -- Melissa Holbrook Pierson, The Daily Beast

Number of Volumes

8 Vols.

Dewey Decimal

782.42166092 B

Edition Description

Unabridged Edition

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