Brass In Pocket

THE PRETENDERS Topped The UK Album Charts 45 Years Ago Today With Their Debut LP

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Back in time

10 February 2025

CHRISSIE HYNDE (73 now) and her PRETENDERS had
instant success in the UK with their Self-titled Debut LP.

It topped the Charts this day 45 years ago, on 10 February 1980.
It peaked at #9 on the Billboard 200 and was certified platinum, over
the ocean, 2 years later.

Sounds (UK music weekly) said at the time: “Its success, which should
be fairly apparent through the next few months, will be valued not through
hype and wildly enthusiastic pen-happy journalists but through a number
of strong album tracks.”

It featured 3 of their best singles ever.

– KID –

– STOB YOUR SOBBING –
(The Kinks cover)

– BRASS IN POCKET –

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THE PRETENDERS Topped The UK Singles Chart 45 Years Ago Today With ‘BRASS IN POCKET’

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Top singles from the past

19 January 2025

THE PRETENDERS topped the UK’s Singles Chart with BRASS IN POCKET
45 years ago today, on 19 January 1980. It was the 3rd single from their
self-titled debut LP.

It was written by Chrissie Hynde and James Honeyman-Scott. Originating as
a guitar lick written by Honeyman-Scott, the song’s lyrics were explained by Hynde
to be about the cockiness that one needs to effectively perform. The song’s title
derives from a phrase she overheard after a show.

It peaked at number 14 in the US.

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Happy 71 CHRISSIE HYNDE

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7 September 2022

Christine Ellen Hynde was born in Akron, Ohio on 7 September 1951. Happy 71 to an utterly cool songstress who flew to London in the mid 70s to dive into the punk scene of London where she joined the young brats who hung out at the late Sex Pistols manager Malcolm McLaren’s fashion clothes shop SEX.

Later she was a writer for NME magazine, before starting her band
The Pretenders in 1978 who made 11 LPs between 1979 and 2020
and had multiple singles hits.

Three big Chrissie moments

– BRASS IN POCKET –
(1979)

– BACK ON THE CHAIN GANG –
(1982)

– I GOT YOU BABE –
(Sonny and Cher cover with UB 40.
This is a great live rendition at the
massive ‘Free Nelson Mandela‘
rock event in London in 1988)

CHRISSIE HYNDE: Biography – Discography