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Due to Farndon's escalating drug abuse, he was fired from the band after a meeting between Hynde, Honeyman-Scott, and Chambers on 14 June 1982. Two days later, on 16 June 1982, Honeyman-Scott died of heart failure as a result of cocaine intolerance. While in the midst of forming a new band, Farndon was found dead by his wife on 14 April 1983.
James Honeyman-Scott (4 November 1956 – 16 June 1982) was an English rock guitarist, songwriter and founder member of the band the Pretenders. With the band, Honeyman-Scott established a reputation, in the words of AllMusic, as "one of the most original and versatile guitarists of the early-'80s new wave movement." [1]
Christine Ellen Hynde (born September 7, 1951) is an American-British [2] musician. She is a founding member and the lead vocalist, guitarist, and primary songwriter of the rock band The Pretenders, and one of the band's two remaining original members alongside drummer Martin Chambers.
Tragically enough, just days later Honeyman-Scott died of a drug overdose. To prove inevitability as almost natural law in rock and roll, Farndon died of similar causes just 10 months later. At that point, bouncing back from such double devastation seemed far-fetched for even this hardy bunch.
The following year Farndon, who was in the process of forming a new band, with former Clash drummer Topper Headon, Guitarist Henry Padovani, Organist Mick Gallagher and singer Steve Allen, was discovered dead by his wife after he had taken heroin and passed out in the bathtub where he drowned.
26 Σεπ 2024 · The Pretenders, English-American post-punk rock group known for its songwriting, its raw, often stripped-down instrumentation rooted in 1970s and ’80s new wave, and its perseverance through early tragedy.
26 Ιαν 2005 · Pete Farndon was kicked out of the group for drug abuse in 1982; ironically, Honeyman-Scott died of a heroin and cocaine overdose two days later. In 1983, Farndon also died of a drug overdose. Following those deaths, the band never regained its original intensity and edgy quality, although a number of releases followed.
