EAN: 9781785031465

RECKLESS - CHRISSIE HYNDE KARTONIERT (TB)

By the time she was 14  Chrissie Hynde knew she had to get out of Akron  Ohio. Her perfect '50s
American childhood upturned by a newly acquired taste for rock 'n' roll  motorbikes and the
'get down boys' seen at gigs in and around Cleveland - Mitch Ryder  the Jeff Beck Group  the
Velvet Underground and David Bowie among the many.  Wrapped up in the Kent State University
riots and getting dangerously involved in the local biker and drug scenes  she escaped - to
Mexico  Canada  Paris and finally London where she caught the embryonic punk scene just in time
not only to witness it first-hand  but more importantly to seize the opportunity to form her
own band  the Pretenders.  Iggy Pop  the Sex Pistols  the Clash  Vivienne & Malcolm  Ray Davies
... on every page household names mingle with small town heroes as we shift from bedroom to
biker HQ  from squat to practice room  from pub gig to Top Of The Pops - the long and crooked
path to stardom  and for the Pretenders  ultimately  tragedy.  That Chrissie Hynde is alive to
tell the tale is  by her own admission  something of a miracle. Throughout she is brutally
honest  wryly humorous and always highly entertaining. She has written one of the most
evocative and colourful music memoirs to be published in recent years.

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