Chrissie Hynde left Ohio for London in the seventies, wrote songs with a hard stare and a melodic ear, and built the Pretenders around guitarist James Honeyman-Scott, bassist Pete Farndon, and drummer Martin Chambers.
In November 1979, the Pretenders released Brass in Pocket, written by Chrissie Hynde and James Honeyman-Scott, produced by Chris Thomas; it became the UK's first new number one of the 1980s.
In summer 1983 at AIR Studios in London, the Pretenders cut Middle of the Road with producer Chris Thomas for the album Learning to Crawl.
