The Pretenders: Get Close
John McCready, NME, 25 October 1986
PRETENDERS LPs were always crap. Get Close is no exception. Having said that, though I have quite a bit of time for Chrissie Hynde, her blah-blah-blah voice (add three superlatives of your choice) and that woman-with-muscles-in-her-spit persona.
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