At one point she tried to convince Steve Jones and then Johnny Rotten (of the Sex Pistols, who were managed by McLaren) to marry her to get her a work permit. She returned to London in the midst of the early punk movement. For one show at the Olympia Theatre when their singer had left, she performed as lead singer. She left Kent for Michael Fradji Memmi, bass player of the Frenchies, which she joined. She returned to France in 1976 to try to form a band but it did not materialize. Hynde attempted to start a band in France, The Frenchies ( fr), before her return to Cleveland in 1975, and joined a rhythm and blues group, Jack Rabbit. It was then that she met rock journalist Nick Kent and landed a position at the music magazine New Musical Express ( NME), writing what she subsequently described as 'half-baked philosophical drivel and nonsensical tirades.' This proved not to last and Hynde later got a job at Malcolm McLaren and Vivienne Westwood's clothing store, SEX. With her art background, she landed a job in an architectural firm but left after eight months. Hynde was also caught up in the Kent State massacre on May 4, 1970, in which the boyfriend of one of her friends was among the four victims. Mat., a band which included Mark Mothersbaugh, later of Devo. While attending Kent State University's Art School for three years, she joined Sat. Hynde became interested in hippie counterculture, Eastern mysticism, and vegetarianism. I had, uh, bigger things in mind.' Early career For me, knowing that Brian Jones was out there, and later that Iggy Pop was out there, made it kind of hard for me to get too interested in the guys that were around me. So I was in love a lot of the time, but mostly with guys in bands that I had never met.

I used to go to Cleveland just to see any band. Except, of course, I could go see bands, and that was the kick. I mean, I never went to a dance, I never went out on a date, I never went steady. She graduated from Firestone High School in Akron, but stated that 'I was never too interested in high school. Hynde was born in Akron, Ohio, the daughter of a part-time secretary and a Yellow Pages manager. Hynde was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2005 as a member of the Pretenders. She recorded her first solo album, Stockholm, in 2014. She has also recorded a number of songs with other musicians including Frank Sinatra, Cher and UB40. Hynde formed the Pretenders in Hereford, England in 1978, with Pete Farndon, James Honeyman-Scott and Chambers. She is a founding member and the lead vocalist, guitarist, and primary songwriter of the rock band the Pretenders, and one of the band's two remaining original members alongside drummer Martin Chambers. Christine Ellen Hynde (born September 7, 1951) is an American musician.

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