Editing The Pretenders (section)

===Background===
Hynde, originally from [[Akron, Ohio]], moved to London in 1973, working at the weekly music paper ''[[NME]]''<ref name="The Great Rock Discography">{{cite book
| first= Martin C.
| last= Strong
| year= 2000
| title= The Great Rock Discography
| edition= 5th
| publisher=Mojo Books
| location= Edinburgh
| pages= 767–769
| isbn= 1-84195-017-3}}</ref> and at [[Malcolm McLaren]] and [[Vivienne Westwood]]'s clothes store. She was involved with early versions of the [[Sex Pistols]], [[the Clash]], and [[The Damned (band)|the Damned]] and played in short-lived bands such as [[Masters of the Backside]] (1976) and [[The Moors Murderers (band)|the Moors Murderers]] (1978 lineup), but failed to find a regular or equal partnership in the bands she joined.<ref>Peter Buckley, {{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=haEfq-nKqjgC&q=Pretenders+stop+your+sobbing&pg=RA2-PA1-IA114 |title=The Rough Guide to Rock |page=813 |publisher=Rough Guides |year=2003 |isbn=1-84353-105-4 |access-date=8 November 2009}}</ref>

Hynde's own provocative band project, centred around her own songwriting, was initially called (Mike Hunt's) Dishonorable Discharge and featured former [[London SS]] and future Damned members, along with Mick Jones and [[Sid Vicious]] (where Hynde taught Vicious to play guitar), but failed to get managerial backing from either Malcolm McLaren or [[Bernie Rhodes]], despite them both poaching her band members for, or asking her to fill in, in their pet projects.<ref>Jon Savage, England's Dreaming, p.146, 171-2</ref><ref>Jon Savage, England's Dreaming Tapes, p.329</ref>

The Pretenders formed in 1978 after Dave Hill at [[Anchor Records]] heard some [[Demo (music)|demos]] of Hynde's music. He arranged a rehearsal studio in [[Denmark Street]], London, where a three-piece band consisting of Hynde, Mal Hart on bass (he had played with Hynde and [[Steve Strange]] in the Moors Murderers), and [[Phil "Philthy Animal" Taylor|Phil Taylor]]<ref>Miles,{{cite book |title=The Pretenders by Miles |page=20|publisher=Omnibus Press |year=1980 |isbn=0-86001-802-4}}</ref> of [[Motörhead]] on drums played a selection of Hynde's original songs. Hill was impressed and arranged a day at Studio 51 to record another demo. Although it was rough, he felt he had seen and heard enough "star potential" to suggest that Hynde form a more permanent band to record for his new label, Real Records.<ref name="The Great Rock Discography"/>

Hynde then formed a band composed of [[Pete Farndon]] on bass, [[James Honeyman-Scott]] on guitar, and Gerry Mcilduff on drums. This band, then without a name, recorded five tracks at Regents Park Studio in July 1978, including a cover of [[the Kinks]]' song "[[Stop Your Sobbing]]". Shortly thereafter, Gerry Mcilduff was replaced on drums by [[Martin Chambers]] (of [[the Vacants]]).<ref>{{cite web | url=http://dieordiy2.blogspot.com/2014/04/the-vacants-worthless-trash-australian.html | title=Die or D.I.Y.?: The Vacants - "Worthless Trash" (Australian Edition Beat Records– BEA 7095) 1977 | date=18 April 2014 }}</ref> Hynde named the band the Pretenders after [[the Platters]] song "[[The Great Pretender]]",<ref>Deanna R. Adams, {{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LBCZvsVKomwC&pg=PA396 |title=Rock 'n' roll and the Cleveland connection |page=396 |publisher=Kent State University Press |year=2002 |isbn=0-87338-691-4 |access-date=8 November 2009}}</ref> which was the favourite song of one of her former boyfriends.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Hynde|first1=Chrissie|title=Reckless|date=2015|publisher=Ebury Press|isbn=9781785031441|page=242}}</ref>