Disgrace and is a production of Double Elvis.

This is a story 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 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?

MK2.

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, and Chrissy Hind.

I'm Jake Brennan, and this is the Graceland. She was there.

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