"Alone" is the tenth studio album by rock group The Pretenders, released October 21, 2016 on the BMG label.
It is the first Pretenders album for eight years and was recorded in Nashville with Dan Auerbach, from The Black Keys. Originally intended as a solo follow-up to Chrissie Hynde's 2014’s ‘Stockholm’, it soon dawned that those driving guitars, ragged but righteous arrangements, tough yet tender lyrics delivered by the most beautifully distinctive voice of a generation, sounded fantastically familiar. The Pretenders were back. 36 years after their remarkable first album, ‘Alone’ could be the older, wiser, badder sister to that exhilarating debut.
Of the new album Chrissie Hynde said the following: “This record is what I love the most - real people playing real music. I sang and recorded every vocal in a 48 hour period - 48 hours to sing them, 40 years of preparation!”."Alone" is the tenth studio album by rock group The Pretenders, released October 21, 2016 on the BMG label.
It is the first Pretenders album for eight years and was recorded in Nashville with Dan Auerbach, from The Black Keys. Originally intended as a solo follow-up to Chrissie Hynde's 2014’s ‘Stockholm’, it soon dawned that those driving guitars, ragged but righteous arrangements, tough yet tender lyrics delivered by the most beautifully distinctive voice of a generation, sounded fantastically familiar. The Pretenders were back. 36 years after their remarkable first album, ‘Alone’ could be the older, wiser, badder sister to that exhilarating debut.
Of the new album Chrissie Hynde said the following: “This record is what I love the most - real people playing real music. I sang and recorded every vocal in a 48 hour period - 48 hours to sing them, 40 years of preparation!”.false2024-02-27 19:36:34Alone620162016-10-212016-10-2146Pop RockRock11272322714538f8db284-f08c-47fd-b674-ad0bc5f20288e9c832b0-384b-4ee6-aec0-111372784aace77ccd8a-80e6-4066-9292-33959ac0f163/media/data/media5/Music/Pretenders/Alone (2016)/folder.jpgPretendersAlbumArtistPretendersArtistPretendersPretendersThe Pretenders are a British-American rock band formed in March 1978. The original band consisted of founder and main songwriter Chrissie Hynde (lead vocals, rhythm guitar), James Honeyman-Scott (lead guitar, backing vocals, keyboards), Pete Farndon (bass guitar, backing vocals) and Martin Chambers (drums, backing vocals, percussion). Following the deaths of Honeyman-Scott in 1982 and Farndon in 1983, the band experienced numerous personnel changes; Hynde has been the band's only consistent member.
The band's hit songs include "Kid" (1979), "Brass in Pocket" (1979), "Talk of the Town" (1980), "Message of Love" (1981), "My City Was Gone" (1982), "Back on the Chain Gang" (1982), "Middle of the Road" (1983), "2000 Miles" (1983), "Don't Get Me Wrong" (1986), "My Baby" (1986) and "I'll Stand by You" (1994). The Pretenders were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2005.