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Feb 25, 2014 · Natalie Hynde, the daughter of former Kinks frontman Ray Davies and Pretenders frontwoman Chrissie Hynde, has been found guilty of “besetting,” or causing difficulty to, a test-drilling site in...
Jun 29, 2020 · Chrissie Hynde thinks being in love is too much ''hassle''. The 68-year-old singer - who has two adult daughters, Natalie, with Kinks frontman Ray Davies, and Yasmin, whose father is her...
May 24, 2023 · Davies likes Van Halen’s take on “You Really Got Me,” and he admires “Stop Your Sobbing” by the Pretenders, whose Chrissie Hynde he went on to have a child with.
- mikael.wood@latimes.com
- Pop Music Critic
Apr 8, 2022 · In his offbeat, semi-fictionalised autobiography X-Ray, Davies suggested the song was inspired by a tearful girlfriend. “Her sobbing was making me feel guilty and I told her to stop…” he wrote. Chrissie Hynde was a teenager growing up in Akron, Ohio in the early 60s when she fell hard for the British Invasion bands.
- Dave Everley
Ray Davies and Hynde eventually met at a New York club in 1980, beginning a relationship which eventually resulted in the birth of a child. [3] [9] The Pretenders' version of "Stop Your Sobbing" was one of three demos given to Nick Lowe and became the A-side for the first single the band released.
The album was re-released as a special extended edition including Davies's charity Christmas single "Postcard From London" featuring Davies's former girlfriend and leader of the Pretenders, Chrissie Hynde.
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Young Ray Davies, standing uncomfortably on the very fault line between fame and anonymity, released a sonic message in a bottle, a song which caught an even younger Chrissie Hynde’s ear half a world away and helped inspire her to begin her own musical journey.
