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A Big Thank You to Chrissie Hynde

Feb 18, 2020

MUSIC: (My City Was Gone)

RUSH: This song that you’re hearing is a looped version of the intro to a song by Chrissie Hynde and The Pretenders called My City Was Gone. I’m calling attention to this because I haven’t talked about this song in many, many moons, and I don’t know how many of you know where the song is from. You so identify it with this program — understandably so, after 30-plus years. But this song is used with the permission of one of the most legendary female performers in rock, Chrissie Hynde.

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
This song that you're hearing is a looped version the
intro to a song by Chrissy Hind and The Pretenders
called My City Was Gone. I'm calling attention to this
because I haven't I haven't talked about this song and
in many, many moons, and I don't know how many
of you know where the song is from you this
is so identify it with this program. Understandably sooth thirty

(00:22):
plus years, but this song is used with the permission
of one of the most legendary female performers in rock,
Chrissie Hynd. Her publishing country company actually tried to take
it away. I guess this is back in the early
nineties when we were still doing the program out of

(00:44):
New York. The publishing firm tried to take it away,
and she interceded and told them, effectively to pound Sand
that if I wanted to continue to use it, that
I would have her permission to use it. UM negotiate
at a price. We pay them an annual fee for
the usage of the tune. I point this out because

(01:05):
Chrissy Hind is out today in a story in the
UK Daily Mail and the headline the Pretenders, Chrissie hynd
praises Trump for honoring Rush Limbaugh despite being a liberal herself.
She's doing this because her dad loved Limbaugh and she

(01:27):
believes in the right to disagree. This is another reason why.
But she was on w p LJ in New York
when they were Scott Shannon and guys for asking her
about this during the controversy of the mean we had
the but we actually had the song taken away for
a period of I think three weeks or a month
until she interceded. She was on p LJ in New York.

(01:48):
They asked her about it. She said, I don't care.
I want if Rush wants to use it, fine with me,
which totally confounded her publishing company. So we got the
song back. The reason is that her dad was a
huge fan of this program. Her dad's name was Melville,
nickname was Bud and Chrissy hind says that her late father, Melville,

(02:09):
would have hand would have loved Trump's presidency, would have
absolutely adored Trump, and would have would have just been
excited as he could be when Trump presented to me
the Medal of Freedom at the State of the Union.
Liberal rock star Chris she's a big animal rights efficient,
and of course, you know, we've had our fund with

(02:30):
the animal rights activists over the course of this program's tenure.
Liberal rock star Chrissy Hind shocked her fans by praising
Trump for honoring the conservative radio icon Rush Limbaugh, saying
her father would have been so delighted. Chrissy Hind, the

(02:51):
lead singer to Pretenders, wrote an open letter to Trump
on Twitter yesterday in which she says her late father, Melville,
would have enjoyed his presidency. Said Melville, known as Bud,
was a huge fan of Limbaugh, who has given the
Presidential Medal of Freedom after he announced he had advanced
lung cancer, but she admitted she didn't always see eye

(03:12):
to eye with her father, and they argued a lot,
but that was okay. We didn't cut each other's heads off.
Isn't that what being an American is all about? So
I wanted to let you hear the actual song here.
This is the open and I think in the open
if I if my memory serves it, it runs twenty
four seconds, and we've looped it uh to make it

(03:34):
run about a minute to handle the show up. And
I'm gonna play the whole thing here. But I want
you to hear the song that she made famous, My
City was Gone. It's about where she grew up in Ohio,
as you will hear as the lyric line unfault him

(03:59):
back to little but my city was gone. There was
no trainstension, there was no down town, some time to disappear.

(04:21):
All my favorite basics s big reduced to Okay, spacy
will to go. Oh. So I just wanted to play

(04:52):
a portion of the song, let you know where it
comes from, and to thank Chrissie Hynd for her comments
and the Daily Mail Today story runs today. Her open
letter to Trump is actually asking for some leniency for
Julian Assange as well, but she points out how her
dad would have loved Trump, and she very much would
have love for her father to have been alive during

(05:14):
Trump's administration. And who have seen me get the Distinguished
Presidential Medal of Freedom. Our studios are right across the
hall at the time, but I was not. We had
moved out of there. I think we've moved down to
Florida time this had happened, so I have I've never
met She was married and go with Ray Davies of
the Kinks for a while and then some other guys.

(05:35):
She's lived in London most of her life, but I
wanted to call attention. Thank her very much for this.
It's it's very nice.