Sometimes you need to be reminded of the respect you have.” I’m sure it was a little inspirational to her. I know all your songs.’ And she said, ‘Do you want to come and jam?’ I remember carrying his amp to the studio, and the guy knew every lick, every note of every song they played. “After the show, Jeff met Chrissie and said, ‘Oh, my God. In the mid-Nineties, he accompanied her to see Jeff Buckley at a small London venue. McEnroe has witnessed her charisma firsthand many times. She even featured McEnroe as a guitarist on her Stockholm solo album. Tennis legend John McEnroe, who befriended Hynde in the early Eighties, believes that other than Janis Joplin, Hynde is the “greatest female rock star.” She famously quoted one of his Wimbledon tirades - “You guys are the pits of the world!” - on Pretenders II’s “Pack It Up,” and whenever the band stops through New York, Hynde invites him onstage. (Even after nearly half a century of living across the pond, her accent remains remarkably Ohioan, though she calls soccer “football” and friends “mates.”) As a longtime vegetarian and outspoken environmentalist, she loves that lockdown has meant less smog and more birdsong around the world: “If I knew there would be no more flights, if we can get rid of all cars, I would be the first to sign up.” She has composed a couple of songs during quarantine, but only writes when she’s moved to. In recent months, Hynde, 68, has reconnected with her saxophone-playing brother, Terry, who lives in Ohio, and she frequently speaks on the phone with her two daughters, who also live in England, Hynde’s adopted home, after growing up in Akron. “I feel like I’m 15: no real responsibilities, no pressure. “I live alone, and I don’t have any pets, so I just have all this time to goof off,” she says. The coronavirus shutdown may have upended her life, but you wouldn’t know it from talking to her. Instead, she’s stuck in her London flat, singing Bob Dylan’s “Standing in the Doorway” over the phone to the band’s lead guitarist for a covers project the two have been working on. tour tonight in support of the Pretenders’ latest album, Hate for Sale.
It’s a Friday evening in mid-May, and Chrissie Hynde was supposed to kick off a U.S.
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