smasha said:
The Pretenders had some great songs.
Pretenders were excellent, although few would consider them Punk.
I took my then girlfriend, 28 years since wife, to see The Pretenders double billed with Talking Heads to the now Westpac Centre about 1984.
Pretenders were nearing the end, and were terrible.
Talking Heads were brilliant, opening up with Psycho Killer, with David Byrne in the BIG suit, then through all their hits, although Talking Heads had been going for 10 years before that.
No doubting Chrissie Hynde and The Pretenders were an excellent band. Shame I didn't see that brilliance live.
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David Byrne is a brilliant individual.
Apart from his history with Talking Heads, he has since made films and written operatic scores, etc.
I remember a film that he wrote & made in the early 1980s, that predicted city communities would move from their traditional city centres to big shopping malls that would supply all city services.
How prophetic was that?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Byrne