Chrissie Hynde has spent nearly five decades making music, and a life, on her own terms. PRETENDERS follows her from Akron, Ohio and the Kent State campus, to the London punk scene that finally gave her a band of her own...
Sep 12, 2026 · 3:59 PM UTC
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...through “Brass in Pocket” and two bandmates dead within a year, to a survival nobody expected. Drawing on the diaries of her longtime tour manager, extensive new interviews with Hynde alongside family, old friends, and the musicians she's influenced...
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...director Joss Crowley sets voice and memory against rarely seen archival footage, immersing viewers in the story rather than narrating it. An intimate portrait of an artist who has never let anyone else define her.
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