The guitarist died just a few years after the band’s debut album, but his imprint on their sound can still be felt today ...

The concept seems like a no-brainer if not an outright cliché. Take a forcefully emotional vocalist in The Pretenders’ Chrissie Hynde, grab a handful of songs from the rich, overstuffed Bob Dylan ...

As the leader of the Pretenders, Chrissie Hynde wrote, sung and recorded some of the most memorable songs of the 1980s. More ...

Within five years of moving from her hometown of Akron, Ohio to London, England in 1973, Chrissie Hynde formed the Pretenders, which she named after Sam Cooke’s cover of The Platters” 1955 hit “The ...

The Pretenders' Chrissie Hynde reflected on the conclusion of her quarantine-era Bob Dylan covers series, detailing how the folk legend's recent song "I Contain Multitudes" sparked the whole idea.

Akron, Ohio born and bred Christine Ellen Hynde has led the Pretenders from the top of the charts since the band’s debut single, a 1979 rethink of Ray Davies’ “Stop Your Sobbing” that killed the Kinks ...