On September 8, Chrissie Hynde will release Reckless: My Life As a Pretender – a no-holds-barred memoir written with “fearless candor” and “sharp humor” that tells her path to stardom.

Covering her younger years in Akron, OH, her move to London in 1973, her first-hand witness to the birth of the punk movement, her meeting of the original line-up of The Pretenders, and the deaths of James Honeyman Scott and Peter Fardon, Reckless solidifies Hynde’s reputation as one of the strongest, most alluring women in rock.

Reckless: My Life as a Pretender is available now for pre-order in hardcover, ebook and audio book formats.

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CHRISSIE HYNDE is a Grammy-winning singer, songwriter and guitarist, best known as the lead singer of the enduring rock band The Pretenders. Hynde released nine studio albums with The Pretenders, beginning with 1980’s Pretenders, which Rolling Stone called the #13 Best Debut Album of All Time. Hynde and The Pretenders were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2005. She most recently released her first solo album, Stockholm, in 2014. She lives in London.