The pretenders

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Pulling together strands of various music styles, Chrissie Hynde steered the r

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Classic Rock Magazine

28 March, 2025

“the battlefield is littered with the corpses of british bands who tried to make it in america and then lost their identity.

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“the battlefield is littered with the corpses of british bands who tried to make it in america and then lost their identity.

Classic Rock

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Todd Rundgren Expect the expected and the unexpected at ...

Classic Rock

The hard stuff reissuesthe

John & Yoko/ Plastic Ono Band Power ...

Classic Pop

Tp 2 nrt aeria syt-pp traks

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