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The Pretenders are a bridge of a band, not only spanning turbulent decades for music and combining British and American members, but they helped to provide a cultural continuity between the malaise-ridden 70s and the teeth-gnashing drive of the 80s. While synthesizers started to take precedence in many genres, founder Chrissie Hynde and her crew proudly carried the torch for rock, the iconic image of Hynde slung with her Telecaster slung low almost serving as an advertisement for the instrument after Punk had given it a cardiac, almost killing it in the late 70s.