📸 Portrait of Chrissie taken by Finn Costello in 1979. -CHHQ

"...Where if you were a guitar player, you’d wanna be that guitar player; if you were a drummer you’d wanna be that drummer. Or at least you’d think, oh, that makes me wanna get onstage.” Chrissie via Arthur Mag, 2008 -CHHQ

“If it was just me and a guitar, you never would have heard of me. So when I look in their faces and I can tell they’re thinking what I used to think, where you look up at a band and you think, Wow, that guy is so fucking cool..."

Hi all! I don’t know where you are at the moment, but here in the U.K. it’s a lovely time of year. The leaves are turning and it’s cooled off after the insane heat waves all across Europe... XCH

A collection of Chrissie’s paintings will be exhibited at The Affordable Art Fair in Battersea, London. 14-18 October 2026. Please contact James at the Harvey&Woodd gallery if you would like a complimentary ticket: [email protected] -CHHQ

📸 Madison Square Garden, 10 years ago. Photos by Dana Distortion -CHHQ

40 years of 'Don't Get Me Wrong', released on this day in 1986. -PretendersHQ

"I'm back on Gasoline Alley, where the smog looks, like a misty valley, and the dotted hills, were pills, Gone down the wrong way" 'Down The Wrong Way' for Absolute Radio, September 2014. -CHHQ

Here's 'Message Of Love' from Chrissie's solo set in Hyde Park London, September 2014. -CHHQ

...through “Brass in Pocket” and two bandmates dead within a year, to a survival nobody expected. Drawing on the diaries of her longtime tour manager, extensive new interviews with Hynde alongside family, old friends, and the musicians she's influenced...

Chrissie Hynde has spent nearly five decades making music, and a life, on her own terms. PRETENDERS follows her from Akron, Ohio and the Kent State campus, to the London punk scene that finally gave her a band of her own...

Chrissie will appear at the Toronto Film Festival this weekend for the world premiere of the official documentary ‘PRETENDERS’

'Don't Get Me Wrong' live at the iTunes festival, which took place at the Roundhouse in London 12 years ago this month -CHHQ

This Week in 2019, Chrissie released her studio album 'Valve Bone Woe', a covers album recorded with the Valve Bone Woe ensemble. Also including 'I'm A Fool To Want You' which she performed last year in session for BBC Radio 2. -CHHQ

Stop thinking about it and go to your nearest shelter. There’s also hundreds of cats who need homes. There may not be a lot we can do to fix the climate or divisive political culture, but we can save a life. Yours and the dog’s. Stay Oaken! XCH

Hi All! Look at this cool picture of a guy and his dog I saw paddling along the Grand Union Canal in London. A dog really is a man’s best friend, I think we all agree. I’m sending this as a reminder to anyone thinking of rescuing a dog from an animal shelter.