Creem Profiles
THE PRETENDERS
(Pronounced “Boy Howdy!’’)
HOME: 55th and Euclid.
AGE: Advanced Mondo Canine.
PROFESSION: Showing people what that aperture is for.
HOBBIES: Red leather jacket prophecies; fingerless glove-love; reading Cat World; bunny hat haute couture; Iggy fetishisms; wrestling with Desi Arnaz.
LAST BOOK READ: Lucrative Alternatives To Rock Criticism by Bob Geldof.
LAST ACCOMPLISHMENT: Completed Mick Jagger’s correspondence course in lyric-mumbling.
QUOTE: “Who wants to wear pink suits, anyway?”
PROFILE: Alchemizing pocket brass into gold, the Pretenders have stopped sobbing worldwide with Fender-bending and soulful bittersweet vocalizing; ignoring gross sexual sign language from a salivating audience, Chrissie Hynde and group blast across the face of this earth with the fortitude of an army and four Space Invader machines.
BEER: Boy Howdy!