The Pretenders : Message of Love
Released on February 6, 1982 The Pretenders' "Message Of Love" would peak at UK#11 and raise expectations for Pretenders II. Like a lot of people, I got my copy on the low-budget Extended Play EP, which came out in March of '81.
The song was composed in the studio, based on a sketch Chrissie Hynde had.Chambers explained, "We never really got into the studio without any rehearsal and record[ed] a song, [but] we have done that once and that was 'Message of Love'. ... [Hynde] likes to come to [the band] when she has [a song] finished in her mind ... but this time she hadn't really finished it and so we just ... rehearsed it already set up in the studio and it was on tape in two hours, basically."
The song namechecks Bridget Bardot and quotes Oscar Wilde in the line "We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars" .
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