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Chrissie Hynde

Chrissie Hynde

Before she formed the Pretenders and became one of rock's great female icons, Chrissie Hynde (pictured with then-beau Nick Kent) wrote for NME and other '70s music mags.

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Brian Eno: Everything You'd Rather Not Know About Eno

Interview by Chrissie Hynde, New Musical Express, 2 February 1974

IT WAS WITH a certain apprehensive curiosity that I first noticed the brown lace-up shoes. He displayed a normalcy that I just couldn't trust. After ...

Gram Parsons: Grievous Angel (Reprise import)

Review by Chrissie Hynde, New Musical Express, 23 February 1974

WHEN YOU'RE sitting in a trailer at 2 a.m. somewhere out in 'Last Stopsville', and there's just you, one more hit of apple wine, the ...

Suzi Quatro: A Rap In The Loo With Suzi Q.

Interview by Chrissie Hynde, New Musical Express, 23 February 1974

CHRISSIE HYND, who's got this thing about black leather, snuggles up to SUZI QUATRO for an intimate girl-to-girl tête-à-tête in the Ladies' toilet ...

Magma: Walthamstow, London

Live Review by Chrissie Hynde, New Musical Express, 9 March 1974

Music to build empires ...

The Velvet Underground: 1969 Live

Review by Chrissie Hynde, New Musical Express, 27 April 1974

IT'S SATURDAY NIGHT. I'm alone and all I don't wanna do is keep leafing through this copy of Vogue I got in my mits - ...

David Cassidy: Terminal Fandom

Report and Interview by Chrissie Hynde, New Musical Express, 8 June 1974

IN "FREE" ADULTS, mass frustration breeds war. In "free" teenagers, mass frustration breeds rock phenomena. ...

Tim Buckley: How a Hippie Hero became a sultry Sex Object...

Interview by Chrissie Hynde, New Musical Express, 8 June 1974

...and had a simply devastating effect on the glands of a certain Chrissie Hynd [sic]. ...

Andy Mackay: In Search Of Marcel Proust

Interview by Chrissie Hynde, New Musical Express, 6 July 1974

IN TERMS of the rock machine they were chronologically burned out from the start. Who but a pack of literary looneys could have survived falling ...

Mose Allison

Interview by Chrissie Hynde, New Musical Express, 6 July 1974

The cool gentleman above is MOSE ALLISON. Among others, he penned 'Young Man Blues', 'Live The Life I Love', and 'Parchman Farm'. Randy Newman's spiritual ...

The Sixties

Retrospective by Chrissie Hynde, The Word, February 2004

"In the Sixties our motto was: never trust anyone over 30. It was all about youth — and youth was a huge threat", by Chrissie ...

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