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Did you know the Pretenders still exist? This is no reunion gig. Two of the original band members died of drug overdoses in the early eighties, after the band made their second album, and the Pretenders have gone through numerous lineup changes in the third of a century since. The only constant—and what a constant—has been Chrissie Hynde, that iconic, beloved rock great famous for the brass in her pocket.

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She dislikes that song. Hynde is sixty-six. The American expatriate she hails from Akron, Ohio has long resided in the west London district of Maida Vale, where she bought a house in the early eighties. What am I gonna do today? Anyone up for a movie? Does she ever walk to Ladbroke Grove?

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For a decade, from the hippie mid-sixties into the punk fever of the seventies, Ladbroke Grove was where London came to drop out and turn on—and especially to tune in. Music was always central to the scene. Before its bohemian bloom, Ladbroke Grove had been an outpost for Rastafarians drawn there partly by its cheap housing. When punk recolonized the area in the mid-seventies, its adherents soon found common cause with reggae as marginalized black-and-white comrades against gray English conformity.

You can, of course, hear reggae in the music of the Clash, who formed in Ladbroke Grove while Hynde was living there as a starving artist in her pre-Pretenders days. She befriended them and tagged along on their first tour. By then, fifteen years after forming her band, Hynde was making her second comeback a decade after making her first with Learning to Crawl following the deaths of Pretenders guitarist James Honeyman-Scott and bassist Pete Farndon.