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  1. www.loudersound.com › features › pretenders-learning-to-crawlThe Pretenders' Learning To Crawl was an indestructible ... -...

    Apr 6, 2024 · The Pretenders might easily have folded after lead guitarist James Honeyman-Scott’s sudden death in June 1982 – two days after the sacking of bassist Pete Farndon (who would also expire within months). But Honeyman-Scott’s influence continued to shape the band’s immediate future.

  2. rockandrollglobe.com › rock › back-on-the-chain-gang-theBack on the Chain Gang: The Pretenders’ Learning to Crawl at 40

    Jan 21, 2024 · Not long after that, the band lost not one but two original members: lead guitarist James Honeyman-Scott and bassist Pete Farndon — to overdoses. Scott’s death was significantly more surprising than Farndon’s.

  3. www.nme.com › news › musicChrissie Hynde feels "guilty" over drug deaths of Pretenders ......

    Sep 12, 2023 · Chrissie Hynde has admitted that she feels “guilty” over the deaths of her former Pretenders bandmates Pete Farndon and James Honeyman-Scott. The frontwoman, 72, formed the rock group back in...

  4. www.documentarytube.com › best-of › the-6-best-documentariesThe 9 Best Documentaries About The Pretenders

    May 23, 2024 · The Pretenders is one such band, with Martin Chambers on drums and Pete Farndon on bass being the two founding members that helped create their iconic sound. In this documentary, we get an inside look at the dynamic between these two musicians and how they shaped The Pretenders into the band that we know and love today.

  5. faroutmagazine.co.uk › two-days-that-changed-the-pretendersHow The Pretenders were torn apart in just two days - Far Out...

    Mar 26, 2024 · Pete Farndon was the outfit’s bassist. He persistently used heroin, and he and Hynde eventually had problems within the band that couldn’t be solved. “I was having problems with Pete,” she admits.

  6. www.thisisdig.com › feature › 2000-miles-pretenders-song-story2000 Miles: Why Pretenders ‘ Beloved Christmas Song Still Goes...

    Dec 3, 2023 · It came just two days after the group fired their original bassist, Pete Farndon, for his own drug-related unreliability. Then, while Hynde and drummer Martin Chambers were still coming to terms with Honeyman-Scott’s death, the estranged Farndon died from a heroin overdose, in April 1983.

  7. popdose.com › 40-years-later-learning-to-crawl-by-the-pretenders40 Years Later: “Learning to Crawl” by the Pretenders – Popdose

    Apr 14, 2024 · Honeyman-Scott ingested too much of an “ill advised drug cocktail”* and died of heart failure – according to Ben Edmonds in the booklet for the band’s box set Pirate Radio: 1979-2005. Bassist Pete Farndon died from a combination of heroin use while in a bath – which led to his drowning.

  8. www.nytimes.com › 2023/08/18 › artsGet Close: 10 Gems From the Pretenders - The New York Times

    Aug 18, 2023 · It’s tongue-in-cheek, but also haunting given the band’s history with untimely death: Two original members, the guitarist James Honeyman-Scott and the bassist Pete Farndon, died of drug-related...

  9. www.radiox.co.uk › news › musicChrissie Hynde admits guilt over deaths of Pretenders band...

    Sep 11, 2023 · Hynde shot to fame in the late 1970s with the success of her band, but she has admitted that 40 years on, she "did not discourage" the drug-taking that led to the death of bandmates Pete Farndon,...

  10. www.guitarplayer.com › player › chrissie-hynde-james-walbourne“I have a few guitars but if I don’t play them for a while, I...

    Nov 23, 2023 · Since forming 45 years ago, in 1978, the group has endured deaths — the melodically gifted lead guitarist James Honeyman-Scott, in 1982, and bassist Pete Farndon, in 1983 — as well as lineup changes and the vicissitudes of popular culture.