LAMONT’S MUSIC NOTES-JAN 17, 2019…THE YEAR WAS 1984 AND THE PRETENDERS RELEASED THEIR 3RD ALBUM ‘LEARNING TO CRAWL’. THIS ALBUM CAME AFTER A 2 YEAR HIATUS, DURING WHICH TIME FOUNDING MEMBERS OF THE BAND PETE FARNDON AND JAMES HONEYMAN-SCOTT BOTH DIED OF DRUG OVERDOSES.
THE ACTUAL NAME OF THE ALBUM ‘LEARNING TO CRAWL’, WAS OFFERED UP BY CHRISSIE HYNDE. HER DAUGHTER NATALIE RAE HYNDE WAS LEARNING TO CRAWL AT THE TIME CHRISSIE WAS TRYING TO DREAM UP A NAME FOR THE RECORD. THANK GOD IT WASN’T ‘FULL DIAPER’
HERE’S A VIDEO OF THE PRETENDERS PERFORMING ‘MY CITY WAS GONE’
