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September 10, 2016
Way to go, Ohio’s Chrissie Hynde.
Chrissie Hynde of The Pretenders turned 66 this year. She lives mainly in London now. Like me, she went to a truly great public high school in the Ohio suburbs, hers being up north in the more industrial Cleveland-Akron megalopolis. I like Ohio. I was lucky to spend half my childhood there. But whenever Hynde and The Pretenders over the past 30 years have performed this song--to be fair, it could be about quite a few Midwestern cities--her voice drips with anger, and you know what she means. It's powerful. Here's one of her tamer renditions.
Posted by JD Hull at 12:08 AM | Comments (0)