Reckless

Chrissie Hynde, for nearly four decades the singer songwriter undisputed leader of the Pretenders, is a justly legendary figure Few other rock stars have managed to combine her swagger, sexiness, stage presence, knack for putting words to music, gorgeous voice and just all around kick assedness into such a potent and alluring package From Tatooed Love Boys and Brass in Pocket to Talk of the Town and Back on the Chain Gang, her signature songs project a unique mixture of toughness and vulnerability that millions of men and women have related to A kind of one woman secret tunnel linking punk and new wave to classic guitar rock, she is one of the great luminaries in rock history Now, in her no holds barred memoir Reckless, Chrissie Hynde tells, with all the fearless candor, sharp humor and depth of feeling we ve come to expect, exactly where she came from and what her crooked, winding path to stardom entailed Her All American upbringing in Akron, Ohio, a child of postwar power and prosperity Her soul capture, along with tens of millions of her generation, by the gods of sixties rock who came through Cleveland Mitch Ryder, David Bowie, Jeff Back, Paul Butterfield and Iggy Pop among them Her shocked witness in 1970 to the horrific shooting of student antiwar protestors at Kent State Her weakness for the sorts of men she calls the heavy bikers and the get down boys Her flight from Ohio to London in 1973 essentially to escape the former and pursue the latter Her scuffling years as a brash reviewer for New Musical Express, shop girl at the Malcolm McLaren and Vivienne Westwood boutique Craft Must Wear Clothes But The Truth Loves To Go Naked , first hand witness to the birth of the punk movement, and serial band aspirant And then ,at almost the last possible moment, her meeting of the three musicians who comprised the original line up of The Pretenders, their work on the indelible first album The Pretenders, and the rocket ride to Instant stardom, with all the disorientation and hazards that involved The it all comes crashing back down to earth with the deaths of lead guitarist James Honeyman Scott and bassist Peter Farndon, leaving her bruised and saddened, but far from beaten Because Chrissie Hynde is, among other things, one of rock s great survivors We are lucky to be living in a golden age of great rock memoirs In the aptly titled Reckless, Chrissie Hynde has given us one of the very best we have Her mesmerizing presence radiates from every line and page of this book. New Read [ Reckless ] By [ Chrissie Hynde ] For Kindle ePUB or eBook – kino-fada.fr It s a rare and special thing when a memoir can rob you of almost all the respect you had for an artist I ve been a Pretenders fan most of my life, and was thrilled when I learned that Chrissie Hynde, who always seemed so clever and interesting in interviews, was going to be writing her memoirs I was dying to know what went into her process as a songwriter and a musician, and to hear about how she fought her way through the boy s club of rock n roll to find her place and voice at the top Th It s a rare and special thing when a memoir can rob you of almost all the respect you had for an artist I ve been a Pretenders fan most of my life, and was thrilled when I learned that Chrissie Hynde, who always seemed so clever and interesting in interviews, was going to be writing her memoirs I was dying to know what went into her process as a songwriter and a musician, and to hear about how she fought her way through the boy s club of rock n roll to find her place and voice at the top This book contains about 10 pages on...3.5 stars Reckless is a great title for this book AND for Chrissie Hynde This woman has been through some serious shit Most of it self inflicted and just plain crazy STDs, drugs and Rock Roll she s been through it all The book ends after two of The Pretenders died, a long time ago , and I think that s apt because that s when her recklessness ended, mostly , too Growing up in the sixties allowed her to do a lot of things that could not be done now You can t knock on the windows of c 3.5 stars Reckless is a great title for this book AND for Chrissie Hynde This woman has been through some serious shit Most of it self inflicted and just plain crazy STDs, drugs and Rock Roll she s been through it all The book ends after two of The Pretenders died, a long time ago , and I think th...I was really disappointed I was so excited to read about this rock legend who was from my hometown She really only talked about the Pretenders for the last 40 pages and she covered nothing past the death of two of the original members What she talked about was biker gangs, drugs and 100 other characters that where a part of her life for a minute I had a hard time following where she was going and what she was saying about particular events She used a lot of expressions I wasn t familiar wit I was really disappointed I was so excited to read about this rock legend who was from my hometown She really only talked about the Pretenders for the last 40 pages and she covered nothi...Very disappointing I really wanted to enjoy this as Hynde is one of my favourite rock stars There are some great stories in here and an insight into a massive decade or so of rock history But it s poorly structured, poor...I was born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio just over a decade after the author The book brought back so many memories of North East Ohio The ultimate rock and roll radio station WMMS, Blossom Music Center, Captain Penny, Barnaby, Chippewa Lake Park, and of course the red brick street where I grew up Vineyard Avenue and there are still red bricks There were also other memories of the motorcycle gangs riding the streets, and surprisingly, putting out a house fire on my street before the Clev I was born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio just over a decade after the author The book brought back so many memories of North East Ohio The ultimate rock and roll radio station WMMS, Blossom Music Center, Captain Penny, Barnaby, Chippewa Lake Park, and of course the red brick street where I grew up Vineyard Avenue and there are still red bricks There were also...This book was a major disappointment I really like the Pretenders and even have her solo album Stockholm on vinyl But this book is so repetitive At least 75% of the book goes on and on about her drug abuse, which gets really boring after a while And only about the last 50 pages are about the Pretenders, and then only the early days as the book comes to an abrupt, unsatisfactory conclusion, when the band s guitar player dies, even though the band continued on for many years Not recommended This book was a major disappointment I really like the Pretenders and even have her solo album Stockholm on vinyl But this book is so repetitive At least 75% of the book goes on...I generally steer clear of books recommended on NPR, but in this case, the author suggested that I not buy her fucking book.http www.npr.org 2015 10 06 4460834I can understand not wanting to be part of the...If you like Chrissie Hynde and think her music is brilliant, DO NOT READ THIS BOOK She seems like she is a complete idiot who has not learned very much from her life experiences.This book is in a word BORING I pushed myself to finish it even though I have several other books in the queue As others have stated, the first 75% of this book focuses on Chrissie s unremarkable suburban middle class childhood, and her blase, rudderless, boring, drug fueled young teenage years and young adulthood While reading this, I didn t even get the sense that she wanted to be in a band, or be a musician, apparently nothing else to do, and since she doesn t seem competent enough to perf This book is in a word BORING I pushed myself to finish it even though I have several other books in the queue As others have stated, the first 75% of this book focuses on Chrissie s unremarkable suburban middle class childhood, and her blase, rudderless, boring, drug fueled young teenage years and young adulthood While reading this, I didn t even get the sense that she wanted to be in a band, or be a musician, apparently nothing else to do, and since she doesn t seem competent enough to perform or get along with people in any other kind of job why not be a musician I was really hoping for some interesting insight into the London punk rock scene or early 80 s music maybe some personal insights into her relationships with Ray Davies, and the guy that sang the Breakfast Club song not even mentioned , ...For someone who wrote such precise and insightful lyrics in her songs and who has such a thoughtful and well observed memoir it comes as a slight shock that Chrissie Hynde s opinion of her younger self seems to be a person who hadn t the slightest interest in writing, history, or education but was a total slacker whose only interests were music, drugs on the side, and an attitude as an outsider She certainly paid her dues before making it as a musician as h...

• English
• 12 July 2018
Chrissie Hynde
• Hardcover
• 312 pages
• 0385540612
• Chrissie Hynde
• Reckless