Chrissie Hynde On The Early Days Of MTV | CONAN on TBS

[@OaktownBman]

When the Pretenders came to my hometown in 1982, I brought a rose and threw it on stage. Chrissie laughed, sneered at me, and crushed it with the heel of her boot. The crowd went wild. Lifelong fan!

[@karaokeathomewithlizb1902]

Just a couple weeks ago I saw her on her birthday and handed her a card. She flipped it behind her and with perfect comedic timing it flew like a frisbee and the look on her face was priceless. She hasn't changed lol but after the next song she knelt on the already low stage and handed me her pick and smiled so beautifully, and we exchanged thanks. Stage antics of a tigress, sweet as a peach.

[@guaporeturns9472]

Best story ever!!😂

[@davidgoosen1633]

That sounds exactly like something Chrissie would do, I believe that story 1,000 %!!

[@bs6938]

Was that Royal Oak Mich?

[@glamdolly30]

Even her speaking voice is melodic! What a cool, magnetic person she is.

[@JoeyLevenson]

I love how her accents are all mixed together from her years in the UK. Classy person.

[@jammerc64]

Chrissie is probably one of the greatest voices known to the mankind. Her control on vibrato speed is inhuman.

[@stevepowell6503]

You should check out the live version of Hall and Oates' "Wait For Me". At the end Hall starts out on a rapid vibrato and gradually slows the rate.

[@lobaggins3328]

That’s why she’s rad. She could care less about looks

[@caiusKeys]

Her voice is amazing

[@kiernanthomas6006]

I saw this interview while I was in the hospital in 2015. TBS played is at it's regular time , 11;30 and again at 2; 30 AM. I could not sleep at all so I watched it twice. Now it's 2021 and I just watched it again. I didn't remember any of it !

[@williamknell864]

Maybe THE best debut album ever! The Police and the Cars too. Amazing first albums.

[@donzaloog1400]

She is fucking awesome.

[@JBCo2012]

Obviously

[@jeffbaca1173]

Lucky bastard got to speak with Chrissie Hynde, what presence with beauty ta boot.

[@closertotheheart]

Love her Zappa shirt.

[@Harold710]

Freak Out was the very first double album I ever bought.

[@patrickbinford590]

Chrissie uses vibrato control to make a vibrato that is in the actual tempo of the song. I have never heard anybody else do that. That's unique.

[@reemclaughlin4260]

I've seen them many times. Chrissie is amazing.

[@HystericalCruelty]

Conan's seems unusually happy to have her on the show, I haven't seen him fanboy like this lol

[@JBCo2012]

Well of course CHRISSIE HYNDE is one of the genuine few TALENTS that ever go on the IDIOT BOX in 2015. FACT! Watch PBS AND BBC

[@charliewartelle6720]

Inimitable. There’s no way to truly cover a Chrissie Hynde song. Her voice is absolutely distinct from any other voice in rock, as is her personality.

[@yvetteromero7576]

She’s so effortlessly cool

[@sly7642]

Her memoir is so good. What a life, such great songs. We wore out a few copies of the albums with the original line- up. Classic and classy.

[@mjproebstle]

One of Akron Ohio’s best, along with Devo and The Waitresses

[@bradlafferty6076]

I'm a Boomer! 53 years old. I remember opening weekend of MTV in Madison Connecticut. There was a lot of concert footage for American bands because there was no format to play music videos so bands didn't have any. The British bands did have videos which I loved, The Pretenders, The Who, The Rolling Stones, The Clash, Dixies Midnight Runners, Elvis Costello, Adam And ect. I was there man. I remember.

[@KaraLey98]

Yoou can't be a Boomer if you're only 53 years old in 2021. The last year for Boomers to be born was 1964, & u were probably born in 1968.

[@ivi13]

Gen X

[@maddymud]

@@KaraLey98 - and I would posit that the man, Douglas Copeland. who named the generation he felt was his tribe - Gen X - was born in 62. Marketers over time kept sliding the years back. On Wiki, it mentions some people say it’s not fair to go with whatever Neilson or Pew Research or some marketing monolith try to impose on it.

[@VaughnJogVlog]

Surely enough people hate the MTV of today that going back to the old format would actually increase viewers.

[@MrX-jw5yw]

I've always loved The Pretenders. I've always hated videos. All of them. Video did, indeed, kill the radio star. Then, as soon as they'd killed it, they switched to a "reality" TV format. I also hate reality TV. Nothing in the world is more UNreal.

[@GaryTurbo]

Now MTV does reality shows about pregnant teenagers

[@JBCo2012]

Ain't that sick. Blame king of depravity Howeirdfartmanstern. For ALL the trash in America. Congrats USA. And trump is sterns friend America

[@HeyFrank]

how are we not adressing this cool mothers of invention shirt?

[@GetSetVideo]

It's because we're obviously not as cool as you. Maybe you should just address it rather than ask why nobody else has addressed it.

[@mjp96]

Chrissie is top ten easily in my fave singers ever.

[@MrX-jw5yw]

Top five.

[@brewster84067]

Coolest woman of rock. Ever. Period.

[@glengamble526]

Agreed

[@bs6938]

Great band that foursome. It was so fun to have new groups burst on the scene between 1976 and 1982. I was one of the lucky ones to see that line up in Royal Oak Michigan.

[@J0EYbagaDONUTS]

Love the Zappa Tee Shirt !

[@thundershirt1]

David Byrne in his book talks about making a video, putting it on a tape, running it over to MTV, and seeing it broadcast in constant rotation the next day. Wide open solution space. Corporate domination put an end to that. Art is filling the open solution space. When it’s gone, it’s gone. Classical, jazz, same thing.

[@aznwilly8013]

conan is fangirling

[@jeffdawson2786]

Chrissie wearing a Freak Out shirt.

[@Harold710]

That was my first double album that I ever bought.

[@SkeeterNYC]

Thank goodness I grew up on chicks, like Chrissie, Siouxsie, Patti Smith, Debbie Harry, Joan Jett, Nina Hagen, Lydia Lunch, Exene, B-52s, Annie Lennox, etc. Not the top 40 skank 'hos of present day.

[@SM-qe4wd]

+Skeeter NYC Really? St. Vincent, Courtney Barnett, Janelle Monae, Haim, Jenny Lewis, Regina Spektor, or Fiona Apple don't mean anything to you? Or did you forget that most of the people you named had the same fame as those I mentioned but you chose the easy targets of top40 trash, which there was plenty to go around in the 80s as well. How ignorant and insulting of you.

[@SM-qe4wd]

+Skeeter NYC We can make this a dick measuring contest to about naming if you wanna go down that logical fallacy ridden rabbit hole.

[@Shadowbat.o_O]

+Skeeter NYC How did this conversation devolve into talking about Miley Cyrus?

[@SM-qe4wd]

***** thank you!

[@JBCo2012]

EXACTLY! You forgot the great Debbie Harry and Grace Slick and Janis Joplin in addition to others!

[@giadac.8677]

Damn she's sooo cool!

[@MrOnTheCheap]

In the band photo, dude in the middle looks like Conan. 0:13

[@94115david]

I remember "Middle of the Road" on MTV ALL THE TIME!

[@Shadowbat.o_O]

Chrissie Hynde was on your show? Damn, Conan. I'm going to have to start watching.

[@nonni139]

Chrissie is so cool.A female icon.

[@PochoNews]

Luv Chrissie and that red headed thing

[@brianfatony6115]

I miss early mtv

[@Lydomina]

+Brian Fatony ♫ I want my MTV....... ♪

[@TheZooropaBaby]

+Brian Fatony I don't miss the time when Poison took over.

[@JBCo2012]

You mean you don't miss 1960's cool free-form commercial FMradio?????!!!!!! Really. Oh I see you were #BornTooLate #Regrets

[@JBCo2012]

+Ramsey U not me dude not my peeps Judy saying it's like like like so rad dude and dudettes so gnarly like m Jackson TUSHY (sarcasm-😝😍hehe)

[@BansheeMilk]

Is that a 'Mothers Of Invention' shirt?

[@shawntaylor8637]

Sporting a Frank Zappa tshirt..love her

[@MrX-jw5yw]

Zappa may be the only other person in the world to ever have been as cool as Chrissie Hynde. Miss you, Frank.

[@shawnuel]

Armisen has to be thrilled sitting next to Chrissie.

[@Attillee]

Old MTV was the best ;`)

[@peterrosenberg3820]

MOI Freak Out T-shirt! Great choice, Crissie!

[@timquinn66]

MTV was great for the first couple of years

[@JBCo2012]

NEVER GREAT or even good. Fm free form progressive radio was GREAT kiddy circa 1966-1973 then the shit hit the fan a little FACT!

[@TexMexRustlinGirl]

I wish mtv would go back to showing music :(

[@nonnayoubuzinnes1669]

Her and Debbie Harry were the coolest rock chicks of the 70s and 80s. Her voice has slso aged fsr better than any other singer IMHO

[@danielstoddart]

Chrissie has aged, just like everybody, but her singing voice still sounds much the same as it did when the Pretenders started out.

[@Abdullah-yr4tv]

I only know her from Friends.

[@ulmo5536]

Same haha...

[@JBCo2012]

Friends that shit show with mr former Dave arkett, and Jen most overrated actress ever wtf is her stoopid name and of course the fig guys hehe

[@JBCo2012]

+Alexander Cederhammar 2 regards

[@effdonahue6595]

Friends?

[@Abdullah-yr4tv]

@@effdonahue6595 season 2 episode 6 i think

[@525Lines]

American Bandstand had rock videos years before MTV. I saw the Bohemian Rhapsody video on American Bandstand when it came out. I guess there weren't a lot of them made compared to the UK.

[@bannjaxx]

Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody promo was made for Top of the Pops in the UK because it was number 1 for so long, instead of the band coming in to play in the studio every week, they knocked out a quick video to be shown in their stead.

[@tyronejefforeillyramirez7961]

HBO in the 70s between movies

[@lemontree9]

Chrissie :3

[@willievstudio]

Chrissie rules!!!

[@geniusjimmy]

There is no top. That's the beauty of smelly cat.

[@JBCo2012]

Smelly pissy. Lol

[@redrn01]

He was clearly fan girling for Chrissie!!

[@lucyfoster4082]

If this doesn’t make sense, I apologize. I’ve always been jealous of her because the gender rules don’t seem to apply to her. I too, would like to both get Ray Davies, and be Ray Davies.

[@lobster4501]

That’s the name of my new band…… Chrome Scratch Plate !!!

[@stockjonebills]

Great interview conan.

[@JBCo2012]

Thanks to Chrissie for making it great

[@SssagaBenches4U]

Shocker! Thought that 2nd guy from left on thumbnail wasn't Conando.

[@IvanusPrime]

+Sssaga Benches Don't you mean *was*?

[@SssagaBenches4U]

Ivan N But he is therefore...

[@IvanusPrime]

+Sssaga Benches Yeah, except that he isn't.

[@rrdream2400]

She's had an amazing career but nothing matched that original band with Jim, Pete and Martin.

[@Geotubest]

Agreed. I did really love Adam Seymour on guitar though. I felt he was a great fit.

[@theresas740]

I've seen them a few times including Lilith Fair at which we were on the lawn. I shared my binoculars freely "until the Pretenders come on, then they are mine!" I bought "Viva el Amor" and the teenage girl rang me up and "oh, here. this goes with that." Liner notes with Chrissie Hynde's autograph!!

[@christinamatteson9649]

I LOVEEEEE HER

[@brain2100]

Conan is that your Dad in the blue blazer in the pic?

[@enc897]

I love you, Chrissie! :)

[@MrNick450]

If you set that guy on fire wouldn't that be a.....burning man..... haha get it?

[@bertagriese8282]

Conan tells the answers instead asking questions...

[@margaddiaz]

At the time they were may fab.

[@eriklarson9137]

And then the dinosaurs came.

[@theoriginalchefboyoboy6025]

Nice shirt, Chrissie! still using your sidestep...

[@TheEarlymtv]

mtv was great from 81- early 84. then it went too hollywood. with the 15 min intros. then it was these big Hollywood productions. took away from the low budget of it all..

[@robertorincongomez1076]

Woman beautiful Chrissie Baby love 🌹🌹🌹❤️😍🇲🇽🇲🇽

[@franklinfx]

She looked like Nikki sixx thankfully she sounded much better!

[@trekuhl3966]

The original Pretenders were incredible something very magical, not the four of them together.

[@richalderson6069]

Her hair is sticking out of the back.....

[@greenhornet6270]

Ol Chris Hynde the Dude Conan the Lady

[@babyirene3188]

Love CH. But what's w/ the blonde hair? Horrible.

[@eriklarson9137]

All I really wish is that she would have the chance to look at you, and make fun of whatever is absurd about you. And there is plenty. Think about it for a while.

[@effdonahue6595]

@@eriklarson9137 sounds like you guys are in love, Nyuk yuk

[@SukalpMishra]

under 1000

[@Peter-p7n5b]

TERRI GARR DID SHE WORK AT STOP SHOP SUPERMARKET LIBERTY STREET SPRINGIELD MASS MANAGER SU P ERVISOR ATTACKED HURT BAD ONCE

[@gusjackson3658]

3 kids by 3 men and half her band mates overdosed on drugs. Talented? Yes! Great judgement? Hmmm...

[@Geotubest]

3 kids by 3 men? Better fact check yourself.

[@theresas740]

She's a Survivor and she can buy and sell you. Also "half her band mates overdosed on drugs" over 30 years ago. And yes, she has a child with Jim Kerr. Imagine the scandal of a woman having relations and making a baby with HER HUSBAND! Clutch the pearls!

[@gusjackson3658]

@@theresas740 The drugs are a big negative.

[@johnnyreno5944]

WTF was that?

[@JBCo2012]

Yo mama.

[@willisverynice]

“Revolution is good” Lol someone hasn’t read much history.

[@crispytg]

6st

[@tread_well_frank2772]

the conan show was best in nyc in the mid 90's to early and mid 2000's . the show had more of a budget so more comedians(aka conan's characters),lot more multi character skits not just conan with this slow stupid side kick like in the clocks skit which sucked) skits, great comedy writers for conan, etc . this tbs format sucks !!!!