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Chrissie Hynde Autograph

Pretenders II LP, hand signed by Chrissie Hynde in black ink.

Pretenders II is the second studio album the Pretenders, released in 1981 and reaching #10 in the pop album chart.  The album is notable for the inclusion of a cover of The Kinks’ “I Go to Sleep” (they had covered that band’s “Stop Your Sobbing” on their debut album, and band leader Chrissie Hynde would have a personal relationship with Kinks’ frontman Ray Davies), as well as the sexually-forward tunes “Bad Boys Get Spanked” and “The Adultress”.

Perhaps the album’s most ambitious track, “Day After Day” spins a common second-album narrative of unaccustomed celebrity, with the band rushing from gig to gig, hotel to hotel, head-spun from the swiftness of it all. The song ends suddenly, mid-guitar-solo, with the sound of a crashing fighter plane. The song “Louie, Louie” is an original composition and not a version of identically titled and often covered song by Richard Berry.

The album would be the final release from the original lineup of the band, as shortly afterwards the band would be fractured by the drug abuse that would take the life of guitarist James Honeyman-Scott, leading to a long recording hiatus. Twenty years after its release, it was certified gold (500,000 sold) in 2001.

Track Listing: 

A1 The Adultress
A2 Bad Boys Get Spanked
A3 Message Of Love
A4 I Go To Sleep
A5 Birds Of Paradise
A6 Talk Of The Town

B1 Pack It Up
B2 Waste Not Want Not
B3 Day After Day
B4 Jealous Dogs
B5 The English Roses
B6 Louie Louie

Chrissie Hynde Autograph