Pretenders | Learning to Crawl | Album

The Pretenders "Learning to Crawl"

LP (NEW) - Vinyl, Demon Records, UK, 2015, DEMREC103, 180g Vinyl, Remastered

The Pretenders' third studio album, Learning to Crawl (1984), is a work of resilience, maturity, and survivor's guilt, widely considered the band's finest work next to their iconic 1980 debut. Released after a devastating hiatus during which founding guitarist James Honeyman-Scott and bassist Pete Farndon both died of drug overdoses, the album captures bandleader Chrissie Hynde channeling immense grief into a triumphant rebirth. The title itself mirrors this survival format, inspired by Hynde’s infant daughter learning to crawl while the shattered band learned to walk again.

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