Artist: The Pretenders
Album: Pretenders
Released: December 1979
UK Chart: 1
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Another favourite album, although I didn’t really get into it at the time, it being a little too commercially successful in 1980 to be afforded a great deal of my attention. Constant playing since means I know every track on this album inside out, even if I haven’t a clue what Chrissie’s singing. I mean everyone knows the one that goes,
wakey child, pissing child, perfect noun hurts
lake child, bursting child, lakeland child hurts
Werner Herzog, whoop my baby!
I saw The Pretenders in the mid-eighties, maybe 1984, at the Edinburgh Playhouse. Martin Chambers was wearing one of those headset microphones, and one of my only memories of the gig is the way he constantly gnawed at the foam covering the mic, like some poor dog locked in the house all day on his own, destroying a pair of slippers.