Prologue -- Beautiful Trees -- Cuyahoga Falls...Terry! Christy! -- Akron -- Walk, Don't Run -- WHLO Appreciation Day -- Testing, Testing . . . One Two, One Two -- Wanting the World -- Paul Butterfield and the Security Guards -- Kent State University -- Four Days in May -- North of the Border -- South of the Border -- Bewitched and Bedraggled -- Tattooed Love Boys -- The Final Countdown -- LET'S GO ON OUTTA HERE NOW--LET'S GO! -- Limeytown! -- The NME -- Craft Must Have Clothes but Truth Loves to Go Naked -- Paris -- Back to Ohio -- Is It Getting Hot in Here or Am I Just Going Crazy? -- Mick's Gran's -- Days of Punk and Poses -- Moped Mania and White Riot -- Lemmy -- Closing In on Destiny -- It's Always Something -- Sid, Sid! Look What He Did! -- Making Rock History -- For the Record -- Pretenders -- The Last Show -- The End -- Epilogue -- Acknowledgments.
Summary:
A memoir by the frontwoman for The Pretenders traces her 1950s childhood in Ohio, her immersion in the music scenes of subsequent decades, and her band's instant rise to fame in the heyday of 1980s culture.
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