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The track's digital download was available for £1.50 between 16 December 2003 and 1 January 2004, with all royalties being donated to Stop Handgun Violence and Future Forests. Chrissie Hynde also recorded a version of the song in 1995 with violins and other stringed instruments.īritish rock band Coldplay released a piano cover of the song as a charity single. The official video features Hynde dressed as a member of the Salvation Army in a snowy location.
It is one of four songs by The Pretenders listed in the book. Similarly, in Poland the song plays everyday in December as part of the Christmas rotation on RMF FM's RMF Classic.ĭave Marsh, in his 1989 book The Heart of Rock & Soul: The 1001 Greatest Singles Ever Made, ranked "2000 Miles"' as the 630th best rock or soul single to that date. The song frequently reappears in the UK Charts around Christmas time staying in the charts for a few weeks over the Christmas period. "Anything to avoid listening to my voice and my stupid words." " Robbie McIntosh plays beautifully on '2000 Miles'," Hynde recalled. The drummer returned in 1994 and is still part of the live band, but session drummers appeared on the last two records and Hynde hasn’t worked with Chambers in the studio since 2002’s Loose Screw.While many people believe the song's title and lyrics refer to two long-distance lovers who miss each other over the holidays, it was actually written for James Honeyman-Scott, the group's original guitarist, who died the year before the song was released. That left Chrissie Hynde and drummer Martin Chambers as the sole original members for a short time, but Hynde fired Chambers in 1986 and essentially turned the Pretenders into her solo project. Tragically, this lineup of the band produced just two albums before guitarist James Honeymoon-Scott and bassist Pete Farndon died from drug overdoses. Check out this amazing footage of the group rehearsing the song in 1979. The latter song is perhaps the one that gets the most airplay these days, and it essentially broke the band when it came out in late 1979 as their third single following “Stop Your Sobbing” and “Kid.” It peaked at Number 14 in America, but rose all the way to Number One in the U.K. According to a press release, the show will feature “all new production and hits from start to finish.” It goes on to list exactly which Pretenders songs will likely feature in the show, including “I’ll Stand By You,” “Back on the Chain Gang,” “Don’t Get Me Wrong,” “2000 Miles,” “My City Was Gone,” “Middle of the Road,” and “Brass in Pocket.” Earlier this week, Journey and the Pretenders rolled out dates for an exhaustive 2020 co-headlining tour that will take them all over America between May and September.
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