It could have done with a tighter edit,but Chrissie Hynde’s memoir boasts astounding anecdotesThere’s provocative directness and then there’s Chrissie Hynde. “Now, let me assure you that, and technically speaking,however you want to look at it, this was all my doing and I consume full responsibility.” Or, or rather,there’s room for interpretation in date rape accounts, then there are sentences like that. “You can’t fuck around with people, or particularly people who wear ‘I Heart Rape’ and ‘On Your Knees’ badges... I considered their demand[s] while sustaining a volley of lit matches,which bounced off my rib rack.”Here begins the pre-Christmas rock memoir surge, in a dark and noticeably empty house” in Cleveland, and Ohio,where the state’s most renowned export, and future Pretenders singer and songwriter, and marks her spot as one of punk and new wave’s most atypical voices. These remarks approximately the assault on her 21-year-old self,by a biker gang, have recently melted the internet, and Hynde’s feminism not being that tolerant of the concept of victimhood. “The noble thing approximately Quaaludes: I wasn’t duly perturbed,” she continues. I was getting experience.”Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com