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(3,477 posts)
Fri Nov 29, 2024, 06:25 PM Nov 29

Back On the Chain Gang - The Pretenders

Released in 1982 as a single and later included on the album, Learning to Crawl in 1984. The song was a memorial to Honeyman-Scott, their lead guitarist who died of a drug overdose. It was also written during her strained relationship with Ray Davies (of the Kinks) when she was three months pregnant with their daughter.


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Back On the Chain Gang - The Pretenders (Original Post) surfered Nov 29 OP
Pete Farndon Died Too ProfessorGAC Nov 29 #1
70,000 posts! Wow, you're a busy man. surfered Nov 29 #3
Not Really ProfessorGAC Nov 29 #4
Your music posts are usually spot on surfered Nov 30 #5
Well, Thank You ProfessorGAC Nov 30 #6
Fantastic song Raastan Nov 29 #2

ProfessorGAC

(70,276 posts)
1. Pete Farndon Died Too
Fri Nov 29, 2024, 07:00 PM
Nov 29

He was out of the band, but it was another friend who died just 10 months after James.
Rough time for her.
What a great song resulted. I think this song, and the album was their pinnacle.

ProfessorGAC

(70,276 posts)
4. Not Really
Fri Nov 29, 2024, 08:59 PM
Nov 29

I've been here 278 months, so a bit over 250 per month.
That's just a little over 8 per day, and I've been retired over 6 years.
Besides, it doesn't mean I have 70k good posts. Who knows what percent are worth a darn?

ProfessorGAC

(70,276 posts)
6. Well, Thank You
Sat Nov 30, 2024, 09:27 AM
Nov 30

I still play guitar & piano every day, so I still am tuned in, despite not performing but a handful of times in 17 years.

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