Chrissie Hynde
23 articles
Audio interviews
The Pretenders' Chrissie Hynde (1986)
Interview by Mat Snow, Rock's Backpages audio, October 1986
The Pretenders' frontwoman opines on everything from animal rights to capital punishment. She also talks about music once or twice.
File format: mp3; file size: 84.7mb, interview length: 1h 32' 30" sound quality: ***
The Pretenders' Chrissie Hynde (2010)
Interview by Paul Zollo, Rock's Backpages audio, 22 January 2010
The Pretenders frontwoman on songwriting and songs; being a band member, and an extended exposition on her vegetarianism and the brutality of the meat business.
File format: mp3; file size: 70.8mb, interview length: 1h 17' 22" sound quality: *** (phoner)
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The Pretenders' Chrissie Hynde (1986) [transcript]
Transcript of audio interview by Mat Snow, Rock's Backpages transcripts, October 1986
This is a transcript of Mat's interview with Chrissie. Listen to the audio of this interview. ...
Chrissie Hynde: Still spikey after baby
Interview by Jon Savage, The Observer, 19 October 1986
"PEOPLE OFTEN say to me in interviews: 'You aren't very prolific are you?' The answer is, no I'm not! I could step up my output, ...
Mandela's Day — The Journey To Freedom
Report and Interview by Ted Mico, Melody Maker, 28 April 1990
TWO YEARS AGO, THE POP WORLD TURNED OUT IN FORCE TO CELEBRATE HIS 70TH BIRTHDAY AND DEMAND HIS RELEASE FROM PRISON. ON EASTER MONDAY, NELSON ...
Chrissie Hynde: Rock 'n 'roll chick
Interview by Mark Cooper, Arena, July 1990
LOITERING WITH friends in the foyer of the Brixton Academy after a Public Enemy gig, Chrissie Hynde found herself eyeball-to-eyeball with a couple of large ...
Suede: The Grand, Clapham, London
Live Review by Caitlin Moran, Melody Maker, 24 July 1993
THERE'S A JARMAN... WAITING IN THE WINGS ...
Interview by Tom Hibbert, MOJO, October 1994
IT IS JUST POSSIBLE, I SUPPOSE, THAT SOMEWHERE IN Chrissie Hynde's attic, there lurks a portrait of a withered old crone hunched over an electric ...
Chrissie Hynde: "Guys in bands are pussies"
Interview by Max Bell, Vox, October 1994
Should Kurt Cobain have unplugged his fax or Evan Dando blabbed about crack? Should Brian Jones have smoked in public? Chrissie Hynde has the answers ...
Interview by Holly George-Warren, Rolling Stone, 13 November 1997
IN 1978, CHRISSIE Hynde, an Akron, Ohio, native living in London, formed the Pretenders. The hand's 1980 debut, The Pretenders, featuring guitarist James Honeyman-Scott, bassist ...
Chrissie Hynde: The Great Pretender
Interview by Lucy O'Brien, The Guardian, 27 April 1999
CHRISSIE HYNDE, wild woman of rock, sits in a private members' club in London's Portman Square in a finely tailored pinstripe suit. Despite the elegance ...
The Backpages Interview: Chrissie Hynde
Interview by Harvey Kubernik, Rock's Backpages, 23 February 2001
Chrissie Hynde and The Pretenders have just finished a fall 2000 U.S. tour opening for Neil Young. Hynde and her group included versions of Young's ...
Chrissie Hynde: Back In The Ring
Interview by Chris Roberts, Uncut, July 2003
After burying half the original Pretenders, CHRISSIE HYNDE bowed out of the rock'n'roll limelight to bring up her kids. Now she's made her best album ...
The Pretenders: Notes on 15 singles
Sleeve notes by Kieron Tyler, 'Pirate Radio' (Rhino), March 2006
'STOP YOUR SOBBING' The debut single, produced by Nick Lowe, hot from his solo records, work with Elvis Costello and live outings with Dave Edmunds' Rockpile. ...
The Pretenders: Orpheum, Boston
Live Review by Jim Sullivan, Boston Herald, 6 February 2009
Pretenders the real deal ...
Retrospective by Vivien Goldman, New Statesman, 31 October 2011
Vivien Goldman charts the history of Britain’s rebellious female punks. ...
27 Minutes With… Chrissie Hynde
Memoir by Mark Ellen, The Word, August 2012
BACK IN FEBRUARY 2004, a literary dinner was held in an Islington restaurant to honour the scriptwriter Paul Schrader. ...
Profile and Interview by Adrian Deevoy, Event Magazine, 12 April 2014
She has single-handedly built the template for the modern female rock'n'roller: she has out-partied, out-married and, in many cases, outlived her contemporaries. ...
Talker Of The Town: Chrissie Hynde
Interview by Simon Price, The Quietus, 10 June 2014
Chrissie Hynde is releasing her first-ever solo album. But never mind that. Just let her talk. Because the legendary Pretenders leader can talk for London, ...
Review by Holly Gleason, Paste, 14 June 2014
FOR A WOMAN with a voice like an open (if rough-edged) straight razor, Chrissie Hynde chose a smooth retro-pop vein to slash into for her ...
Book Review by Evelyn McDonnell, Los Angeles Times, 17 September 2015
There's no pretending in Chrissie Hynde's spare, deft memoir Reckless ...
Review by Stephen Dalton, Classic Rock, 17 October 2016
Chrissie Hynde reveals her rootsy Americana side with help from some Nashville friends ...
Interview by Adrian Deevoy, Event Magazine, 4 August 2018
Still super-hip (and all lip) at 66, the Pretenders' Chrissie Hynde tells Event why she swears at fans, enrages sex abuse victims… and has swapped ...
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