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PRETENDERS

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For their 12th studio album, The Pretenders dish out a world-weary yet quietly powerful release which touches upon themes and sounds that have dappled their pre...

PRETENDERS

Pretenders (40th Anniversary Deluxe Edition)

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Curated by Chrissie Hynde, Pretenders (Deluxe Edition) contains the original album remastered by Chris Thomas, alongside demos, rarities, and many live performa...

CD1 – Original Album

1. The Adultress

2. Bad Boys Get Spanked

3. Message Of Love

4. I Go To Sleep

5. Birds Of Paradise

6. Talk Of The Town

7. Pack It Up

8. Waste Not Want Not

9. Day After Day

10. Jealous Dogs

11. The English Roses

12. Louie Louie

CD2 – Studio Demos, Singles & Alternates

1. Talk Of The Town (Demo)

2. What You Gonna Do About It

3. I Go To Sleep (Guitar Version – Outtake)

4. Pack It Up (Radio Mix – Outtake)

5. Day After Day (Single Mix)

6. In The Sticks

7. Louie Louie (Monitor Mix)*

Live in Central Park, NYC, August 30^th 1980

8. Precious (Live in Central Park, NYC, August 30^th 1980)

9. Space Invader (Live in Central Park, NYC, August 30^th 1980)*

10. Cuban Slide (Live in Central Park, NYC, August 30^th 1980)*

11. Porcelain (Live in Central Park, NYC, August 30^th 1980)*

12. Tattooed Love Boys (Live in Central Park, NYC, August 30^th 1980)*

13. Up The Neck (Live in Central Park, NYC, August 30^th 1980)*

CD3 – Live At The Santa Monica Civic, September 4^th 1981

1. The Wait (Live at the Santa Monica Civic, September 4^th 1981)

2. The Adultress (Live at the Santa Monica Civic, September 4^th 1981)

3. Message Of Love (Live at the Santa Monica Civic, September 4^th 1981)

4. Louie Louie (Live at the Santa Monica Civic, September 4^th 1981)

5. Talk Of The Town (Live at the Santa Monica Civic, September 4^th 1981)

6. Birds Of Paradise (Live at the Santa Monica Civic, September 4^th 1981)

7. The English Roses (Live at the Santa Monica Civic, September 4^th 1981)

8. Stop Your Sobbing (Live at the Santa Monica Civic, September 4^th 1981)

9. Private Life (Live at the Santa Monica Civic, September 4^th 1981)

10. Kid (Live at the Santa Monica Civic, September 4^th 1981)

11. Day After Day (Live at the Santa Monica Civic, September 4^th 1981)

12. Up The Neck (Live at the Santa Monica Civic, September 4^th 1981)

13. Bad Boys Get Spanked (Live at the Santa Monica Civic, September 4^th 1981)

14. Tattooed Love Boys (Live at the Santa Monica Civic, September 4^th 1981)*

15. Precious (Live at the Santa Monica Civic, September 4^th 1981)*

16. Brass In Pocket (Live at the Santa Monica Civic, September 4^th 1981)

17. Mystery Achievement (Live at the Santa Monica Civic, September 4^th 1981)*

18. Higher And Higher (Live at the Santa Monica Civic, September 4^th 1981)

*previously unreleased

**first time on CD

PRETENDERS

Pretenders II (Deluxe Edition)

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deluxe 3cd + book

Released: 5th Nov 2021

£37.99

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Curated by Chrissie Hynde, Pretenders II (Deluxe Edition) also features a remastered version of the album by Chris Thomas, demos, and alternates alongside two live performances; one from Central Park, New York City in 1980, and an electric show from The Santa Monica Civic in 1981.

Pretenders returns as a striking 12x12 3CD deluxe set, featuring a high-quality book with brand-new liner notes by acclaimed journalist Will Hodgkinson. it also includes a myriad of rare and unseen photos of the band, by turn both beautiful and candid. These include BBC sessions on The Kid Jensen Show, and performances at The Paris Theatre, London and Paradise Theater in Boston. Pretenders II (Deluxe Edition) also features a remastered version of the album by Chris Thomas, demos, and alternates alongside two live performances; one from Central Park, New York City in 1980, and an electric show from The Santa Monica Civic in 1981. Pretenders’ first release came almost a year earlier to the album’s release, with their top 40 debut single, a cover of The Kinks’ Stop Your Sobbing produced by Nick Lowe. Next came Kid, another UK top 40 hit and their first originally written single. Following both singles would come one of Pretenders’ biggest tracks to this day, Brass In Pocket. Leading with a glorious guitar rhythm embodied by luscious chorus, Brass In Pocket launched Pretenders onto a different level, with the track finishing reaching #1 in the UK, Ireland, Sweden and South Africa, as well as top 5s in Australia, Belgium, Canada, France, New Zealand and more. It was also a success in the US, reaching #14 and becoming the 7th music video aired on MTV. The album continues to be highly acclaimed to this day, regularly featuring amongst best of the 1980s lists, as well as being certified Platinum in USA, and Gold in UK, Netherlands, Belgium, and New Zealand.