Posted on 03/05/2003 12:53:30 PM PST by EggsAckley
Edited on 04/13/2004 2:41:57 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
Ten songs into the Pretenders' Saturday show at the Warfield, singer- guitarist Chrissie Hynde pithily summed up her group's enduring appeal and, in the process, the appeal of rock music as a whole.
"I think our band represents all the great losers of the world," she told a cheering sold-out crowd. "Because it's all about the losing." With that, she handed off her guitar, grabbed the microphone and led the Pretenders into the power ballad/anti-anthem "The Losing," off their 2002 album, "Loose Screw."
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Oops, you must be right. For some reason (his accent, I suppose) I thought he was French.
I guess this would be as bad as accusing Arnold Schwartzenager (sp?) of being German? (He's Austrian, I believe.)
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