Double Elvis.

Disgraceland is a production about being there, about showing up early, about standing close enough to history that you can feel the heat coming off of it.

This is about a woman who found herself in the future, watching bands form, watching cultures

collide, and the world being remade in real time.

Not as a star, not yet anyways, but as a witness and a survivor.

This is also the story of an unprovoked attack about studded belts,

bicycle chains, and a gun stashed underneath the bar. It's about two marriage proposals and a woman

who wasn't about to be tied down, a woman who responded to the chaos, violence, and loss

surrounding her by making a lot of noise.

This is a story about Chrissy Hine from The Pretenders.

So, of course, it's a story about great music.

Unlike that clip I played for you at the top of the show, that wasn't great music. That was a

preset loop from my Melotron called, Are You Ready Girls? MK. 2. I played you that loop because I can't

afford the rights to Le Freak by Sheik. And why would I play you that specific slice of stranded outside

Studio 54 cheese could I afford it? Because that was the number one song in America on January

20th, 1979. And that was the day that Chrissy Hines band, The Pretenders, released their first single.

A hard-fought, hard-won victory for someone who had spent years lurking on the sidelines

as the clash, the sex pistols, and UK Punk at large, were busy being born.

On this episode, Punk at ground zero, chaos, violence, loss, survival, the origins of the

pretenders, Chrissy Hind.

I'm Jake Brennan, and this is disgrace land.

She was there. She was there in 1972 when the Starman, Zyggy Stard Us, first fell to Earth and landed somewhere in Ohio.

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