![]() But the best thing about the song is that it always reminds me of Jimmy Scott. “If someone wants to hear it, it’s always a pleasure. “I enjoy singing it these days,” says Hynde. All I ever wanted was to play venues the size of Shepherd’s Bush Empire, and that’s the kind of place we still play today. I don’t remember it having any huge impact in terms of us playing bigger venues. “In terms of my career, Brass In Pocket was about as big as it got,” the singer says, “but globally-speaking it was more like a B-movie. Hynde and the rest of the band attended his funeral while the UK was going Pretenders-mad. The sad backdrop to The Pretenders’ only chart- topper was the heroin-overdose death of her friend and flatmate Kevin Sparrow. When Brass In Pocket went to No.1, no champagne was popped chez Hynde, and not just because of her conflicted feelings about the song. The closing shot shows the band driving off and me looking out of the window, weeping. “He had the band showing up with their girlfriends in a Pink Cadillac, and me trying to get their attention and failing. “I’d cast off my apron and we’d all ride off into the sunset.”Īlas the video’s director – missing the fact that Hynde was an alpha female – had a rather different idea. “My idea was that the band would show up on motorbikes,” she says.
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