Songs that Changed Music: Pretenders - Brass In Pocket

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“This goes out over my dead body,” Chrissie Hynde told producer Chris Thomas in the fall of 1979. The Pretenders had just recorded their newest track “Brass in Pocket” at Wessex Studios in London and the lead singer and songwriter “hated” it. Despite her initial protestations, the song was released in November as a single, just ahead of the band’s self-titled, debut album, and rang in the new decade at the top of the charts. With “Brass in Pocket,” the Pretenders bottled pop’s infectious energy and optimism, with rock’s independence and swagger. It was the band’s first major hit record and propelled the Pretenders into the mainstream spotlight, crowning Hynde as one of popular music history’s most fierce and influential female rockers along the way.

From the moment the song begins, “Brass in Pocket” captivates audiences with its catchy guitar riff, laid back groove and powerhouse vocals. Guitarist James Honeyman-Scott’s guitar riff certainly caught Hynde’s ear when she first heard it. Hynde reminisced: “James had that little riff [sings opening repeated guitar notes]. He was playing that in the studio and I thought, ‘Wow, that’s awesome.’ And I just happened to have a little tape recorder and I taped it.” From there, Hynde added the melody and lyrics, including the song’s iconic (but enigmatic to American audiences) opening line and title. She had first heard the phrase while out with her bandmates and another local group, the Strangeways:

“We were all having dinner together afterwards, and one of the guy’s in Strangeways had just picked up his trousers from the dry-cleaners…His bandmate asked him jokingly: ‘Was there any brass in the pockets?’ I suppose I just liked the turn of phrase. Being from the US I hadn’t heard it before.”

The phrase kicks off Hynde’s vocal part with a swagger of strength and confidence. Audiences adored the singer’s sultry expression and clever songwriting. After 6 months in the spotlight, Robert Hilburn declared in the Los Angeles Times: “Hynde is one of the most alluring and provocative female rock singers ever and this sensual plea for attention has an irrestitible chorus.” In spite of this, it took the singer a long time to come to terms with the song saying: “I used to cringe when I heard my voice on those early Pretenders recordings, and then that fucker went to number one! I remember walking around Oxford Circus hearing it blasting out of people’s radios. I was mortified.”

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