The studio album from The Pretenders, 'Learning To Crawl', turns 40 today! Rolling Stone wrote, "To say that Learning to Crawl reconfirms Hynde as the most forceful female presence in rock already demeans her achievement: The matter of gender aside, she is the most unaffectedly personal of contemporary singer/songwriters, and surely the most astringently intimate lyricist working within a real rock & roll context." Listen to the album here: https://lnk.to/streamLTC | Pretenders

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