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Imagine how wonderful it feels to

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have one of your heroes senior praises.

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That's what Chrissie Hynd experienced when Neil

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Young inducted her and her band The Pretenders

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into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in two thousand five.

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In his entirely improvised speech, Neil

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eloquently expresses his love for The Pretenders,

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proclaiming them one of the greatest rock and

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roll bands ever, inciting them

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as an influence on him and his own band,

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Crazy Horse. Chrissie's acceptance

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speech is brief but poignant, asserting

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that the Pretenders are now a quote tribute

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band that pays tribute to their

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original band members who have both passed away.

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Guitarist James Honeyman Scott and

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bassist Pete Barndon. Drummer

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Martin Chambers expresses thanks for the

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honor of induction and reminiscence

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about touring America for the first time

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with this old bandmates. Thank

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you, thank you. It's a great

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honor to be here and uh I enjoy

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your company every time I come here, see

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you people all the time. It's

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great. I'm

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running for office. No, really,

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I'm very honored. I'm very happy

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to be here to talk

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a little bit out the pretenders who

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had a great influence on myself

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and my band Crazy

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Horse. Uh yeah,

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when we couldn't figure out what to do, we used to put on

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those records and listen to them

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and go, Okay, they got who's

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what she looked like? You know, this

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was or something And anyway,

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they had a huge impression on me. I I obviously

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you can look at my I don't have any notes. I yeah,

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but there's I don't know what to say on her there. This

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is one of the greatest rock and roll bands that ever lived.

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They went through all of the heartache that rock

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and roll was built on. They

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lost two key members and

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they never gave up. They kept going

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and they nothing would stop him.

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And and Chrissy is she She's

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a rock and roll woman. She's got it in her heart. She's

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gonna be rock until she drops. And

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I love her and

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Martin great drama that's always

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been there with her. And

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those of you who are in bands and who front

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bands, you know what it's like. To have a

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great drummer who's always with you, and

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what a great feeling that is, and and to

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have these people with you so uh.

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You know, sometimes in these bands we

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make so much out of the lead singer, you

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know, we make the lead singer the big thing. And

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actually our business we try to destroy

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some bands by by pulling these

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people out and trying to make them something they are and they're

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really part of a rock and roll band. And

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and I'm sure that Chrissy had

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a lot of people trying to get her

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to take a step somewhere else, but she

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never did because she's a true rocker

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and playing with a great rock and roll band

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and she just can't get enough. And you can tell every

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time she walks on the stage. I'm

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very proud just to know her. And it's it's

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uh, my pleasure and distinct

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honor to induct the Pretenders

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into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. For

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the break we'll hear the Pretenders accepted

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speeches on the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction

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belt. Okay,

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well, I know the Pretenders have looked like a

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tribute band for the last

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twenty years, and actually they

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are a tribute tribute band, and and

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we're paying tribute tonight to James Sun even Scott

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and Pete Farndon, without whom we wouldn't

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be here m now.

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On the other hand, without us, they might have been

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here. Um. But that's uh,

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that's the way it works in rock and roll.

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But I all I really have to say about it is

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two notes, boom boom, boom boom,

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never change, never change it. He just

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keep moving, but never change. Mark

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you having to add to that correct at

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least he's going to be a bit of a difficult pleasure.

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Uh. Twenty five years ago

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tonight, we were playing on our

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third show in America on the

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first US tour in a place called Syracuse

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in the state of New York. It's

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called Uncle Sam's in case you were there, and

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we tore up the country a couple of times

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that year. A couple of weeks after that,

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Jim and are in the front of the converted

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greyhound bus the middle

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of the night, exotic

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booze and he

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looked out the window and he said, acrossing

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the Mississippi his Hank Williams

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on the radio, and I mean, yeah, and we're from

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Harringford. It was a great

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moment like this is tonight

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for jim and Pete from a little market

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town in England on the west side

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on the Welsh borders. I think

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somebody on table fifteen might know where that

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is. And it's

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a pleasure, It really is a pleasure. There's few

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people, extra special people to thank. It's

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a pleasure to have Jimmy's

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sister here to night, Lynd Scott and

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Dave Hill, David our original manager.

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Remember Stan Tippins there on the road guys,

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you know, and well, there's

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a lot of people to think. I'd like to thank

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Mick Green. Mick Green was it

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was still a great guitar player, has

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been playing over over forty

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years with a Bank of the Pirates, and he

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helped us out at a very difficult

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time when we were looking for somebody

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to

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do the impossible step

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into the shoes as somebody like James Turneyman Scott.

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Well we managed to continue. And I'd

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like to thank a lot more people, especially the drummers

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who sat in my seat kept it

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warm. Thank you very much. Yeah,

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well, Martin was playing crap for a while and

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I had this a true to the music. So I'd like to

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thank Blair Cunningham for filling

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in for a few years. Martin

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could be excuse for being um

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part of the Sunny and Share shop back

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away from the Drummer and

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Robbie McIntosh and Malcolm

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Foster certainly not a great

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lineup of ours. Pretty warrel

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T M. Stevens. There's

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a lot of people to thank and get

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over it. Okay, We're gonna play

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some some songs I'd like to thank. I'd

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like to thank Andy Hobson and Adam

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Seymour were claimed the last

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fifteen years and making my life

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more funny it really should be. And

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I'd like to thank Christie especially for making

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my life really interesting. Thank

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you, thank

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you, thank you. Thanks

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