The Pretenders
1981-09-18
Fridays (TV program)
Studio 55
ABC Television Center
Los Angeles, CA
TV Soundboard Recording
320 kbps
Artwork Included
01. The Adultress
02. Message Of Love
03. Louie, Louie
1981: The televison business is notorious for being a copycat industry. The minute one network has a success, every other one seeks to imitate it. ABC's show Friday's was there unsuccsssful attempt to duplicate what NBC has done with Saturday Night Live. Launched in 1980, Friday's lasted just 2 years (SNL is still running, over 50 years after its launch in 1975!) but it did feature some excellent new wave and punk artists as musical guests. This TV soundboard recording captures The Pretenders on Fridays on September 18, 1981, 45 years ago today. They were promoting their 2nd album, appropriately titled Pretenders II. The disc went to #10 on the Billboard charts and featured such tunes as Message Of Love, Talk Of The Town and The Adulteress. It would be the last album recorded by the original Pretenders line up, as drug overdoses claimed the lives guitarist James Honeyman-Scott and bassist Pete Farndon over the next 2 years.
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