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Added: 30 Apr 2002. Find a Grave Memorial ID: 6381421. Source citation. Rock Musician. Born in Hereford, England, he was best known as a guitarist and founding member of the rock band The Pretenders. After several rehearsals and recording sessions, Scott officially joined the group as lead guitarist in 1980. His original and versatile style is.


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Welcome to my Talking Guitar podcast with James Honeyman-Scott, one of the founding member of the Pretenders. Jimmy, as he preferred to be called, only lived.


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James Honeyman Scott. 2,562 likes · 178 talking about this. James Honeyman Scott was born in Hereford, England on November 4th, 1956. He was the original guita


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The Pretenders are a British-American rock band formed in March 1978. The original band consisted of founder and main songwriter Chrissie Hynde (lead vocals, rhythm guitar), James Honeyman-Scott (lead guitar, backing vocals, keyboards), Pete Farndon (bass guitar, backing vocals) and Martin Chambers (drums, backing vocals, percussion). Following the deaths of Honeyman-Scott in 1982 and Farndon.


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James Honeyman-Scott (4 November 1956 - 16 June 1982) was an English rock guitarist, songwriter and founding member of the band the Pretenders. With the band, Honeyman-Scott established a reputation, in the words of AllMusic, as "one of the most original and versatile guitarists of the early-'80s new wave movement."


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James Honeyman-Scott was a founding member and original lead guitarist of the band The Pretenders. He was a multi-instrumentalist who was influenced by the likes of Ron Wood, Eric Clapton, and Jimmy Page. Like his idols, he became a musician who developed his own sound.


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James Honeyman-Scott of the Pretenders, a tribute. Live Fast, Play Hard, Die Young by Shelbie Freedman (February 2014) This June 16th will mark the 32nd anniversary of the passing of a great but unsung guitar hero, James Honeyman-Scott.


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In 1982, the Pretenders guitarist James Honeyman-Scott died from drug abuse at age 25. He and his bandmate Chrissie Hynde had been working on a song, "Back on the Chain Gang," about the.


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The complete James Honeyman-Scott interview is now available in HD on YouTube: https://youtu.be/UDLfBBO5FGM. In the excerpt heard here, James confesses that.


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Together with the rest of the original Pretenders - lead guitarist James Honeyman-Scott, bassist Pete Farndon and drummer Martin Chambers - Hynde made one of the best debut albums in rock history, and a second that was nearly as good. After that, tragedy struck. Honeyman-Scott died in 1982 and Farndon followed him a year later, both drug.


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James Honeyman-Scott was born in 1956, in Hereford, England. He started playing the guitar aged eleven. His early musical influences included the heavy blues of Cream, the ambition of Yes and the melodic southern rock of the Allman Brothers. Later influences, and quite direct ones too, included Nick Lowe and Dave Edmunds; "I started listening.


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Recording. "Back on the Chain Gang" was recorded after James Honeyman-Scott, the Pretenders guitarist, died of a drug overdose at the age of 25 on June 16, 1982. This came two days after the Pretenders fired their longtime bassist Pete Farndon because of his drug problem. On July 20, 1982, the band began recording the song at AIR Studios in London.


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James Honeyman-Scott. One of rock's many tragic drug-related casualties, Pretenders guitarist James Honeyman-Scott was one of the most original and versatile guitarists of the early-'80s new wave movement, making the senselessness…. Read Full Biography.


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Other articles where James Honeyman-Scott is discussed: the Pretenders: April 14, 1983, London), guitarist James Honeyman-Scott (b. November 4, 1956, Hereford—d. June 16, 1982, London), and drummer Martin Chambers (b. September 4, 1951, Hereford). Later members included guitarists Robbie McIntosh (b. October 25, 1957, Sutton, Surrey, England), Adam Seymour, and James Walbourne and bassists.


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Pretenders & Chrissie Hynde Articles James Honeyman Scott interview. The complete audio of this interview can be heard on Jas Obrecht's. This interview took place on January 29, 1981. At the time, James was living in Flat 1, Westside, 55 Priory Road, West Hampstead, London. What do you prefer to be called?


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Watch on. "Day After Day" (1981): While this track wasn't released as a single, it's definitely worth including, since it's a Hynde/Honeyman-Scott co-write. In a look back at Pretenders II, Ultimate Classic Rock wrote of the song that it "seemed emblematic of where the Pretenders were, both professionally and personally.

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