6/7/2023 0 Comments The pretenders 2018![]() “I’m not really into art,” she shrugs (when she does, her earrings shudder: small, silver keys hanging from her lobes). ![]() We begin talking about art, not that Hynde finds it easy. “Eat up.”Ĭhrissie Hynde’s painting Dancing Noels. “And these.” She hands over a plate of Portuguese custard tarts and winks. “I got some fig rolls in,” she adds, before lowering her voice conspiratorially. On the walls are drawings done for Grandma, one a street scene with Hovis lorries felt-tipped in red. “I don’t remember them ever playing it, but it’s probably what made me want to be a singer, seeing that picture when I was a child,” she says. This is one of only three records Hynde’s parents had. ![]() The debut album by 50s singer Julie London sits on top of the TV its first track is her signature torch song, Cry Me a River. She’s a good host: the kettle is on, flowery mugs already laid out. “They’re great – such balls of innocence,” she says later of the twins. Within minutes, we’re talking about where I live (near Hereford, where the other three Pretenders came from) and my young son: she’s got twin grandsons, who live nearby with her daughter, Yasmin, from Hynde’s brief 1980s marriage to Simple Minds’ Jim Kerr (Hynde also has an older daughter, Natalie, from her relationship with Ray Davies she brought both girls up alone). She’s wearing a black hoodie, black T-shirt and black jeans and her hair is the coolest way out of the rock star-with-greying-hair conundrum I’ve seen – ash-blond over eyes still thick with black eyeliner. She buzzes me into her flat with a friendly hello (I pass her black boots, unlaced, on the bottom step). Hynde can sound blase on paper, but in person she’s much warmer. “I mean, who the fuck am I? There’s so many people who’ve been doing this all their lives and they can’t get a gallery…and then muggins walks in, dabbles for a couple of years and the next thing, here’s a big fuck-off box set of her paintings!” She laughs at herself, although she’s not a phoney, she says. Hynde has reservations about entering this gang. You may have seen Ronnie Wood’s canvases of his celebrity friends or Bob Dylan and Joni Mitchell’s coffee-table smothering volumes. Rock stars becoming painters remains one the most cliched career transitions in showbiz, however. And if I was in a happy relationship, you wouldn’t be looking at these paintings
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