Kennedy Stadium, Philadelphia USA on the 13th July, 1985. Check out Back On the Chain Gang (Take On the Pretenders) by Cool & Classy on Amazon Music. 5 on the Hot 100, becoming the band's biggest hit in the U.S. Pretenders performing at Live Aid in front of 100,000 people in the John F. 'Back on the Chain Gang' entered the Billboard charts in early October 1982, then reached No.

The song also was released on The King of Comedy soundtrack album in March 1983 and later was included on the Pretenders' next album, Learning to Crawl, in January 1984. The song was written during the strained relationship that Chrissie Hynde had with Ray Davies (of the Kinks) and was recorded when she was about three. This song includes a new authentic tone.brbrNOTE Rocksmith 2014 game disc is. Chrissie Hynde wrote the song as a memorial to Honeyman-Scott and she dedicated it to him. Play Back on the Chain Gang by The Pretenders on any electric guitar or bass. Morrissey cancels Boston concert as another U.S. 'Back on the Chain Gang' is a song written by Chrissie Hynde and originally recorded by her band the Pretenders, and released as a single by Sire Records in September 1982. Back on the Chain Gang was recorded after James Honeyman-Scott, the Pretenders guitarist, died of a drug overdose at the age of 25 on June 16, 1982.

The cover is produced by Joe Chiccarelli, who produced Moz’s last two albums, World Peace Is None of Your Business and Low in High School, and features Jesse Tobias on guitar, Solomon Walker on bass, Matthew Walker on drums and Roger Manning on keyboards.īelow, check out a live performance of “Chain Gang” from last year. Morrissey has recorded a cover of The Pretenders’ 1982 single “Back on the Chain Gang” - which the former Smiths frontman has taken to playing live of late - in a Los Angeles studio and intends to release it this summer as a single, according to a post on his new Morrissey Central website.

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