Back on the Chain Gang" is a single by The Pretenders released in November 1982.

Back on the Chain Gang" is a song written by Chrissie Hynde and originally recorded by her band the Pretenders, and released as a single by Sire Records in September 1982. The song also was released on The King of Comedy soundtrack album in March 1983 and later was included on the Pretenders' next album Learning to Crawl in January 1984. Back on the Chain Gang" entered the Billboard charts in early October 1982, then reached no. 5 on the Hot 100 becoming the band's biggest hit in the .

When Morrissey decided to cover the Pretenders’ Back on the Chain Gang for an upcoming double-vinyl reissue of his Low in High School album, he wanted to play it loose with the lyrics. I didn’t ever see the lyrics correctly printed because I wanted to sing them as I had always thought they were, he tells Rolling Stone via e-mail. She sang on my 1991 . single ‘My Love Life,’ and also on a track on my Swords album called ‘Shame Is the Name. Chrissie is the funniest person in the world, yet she has absolutely no sense of humor. We have been in many absurd situations – all her fault, of course. I know she’d marry me tomorrow, but she’s already had 11 husbands and she’s always being spotted digging in the garden at midnight. In This Article: Chrissie Hynde, Morrissey, The Pretenders.

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A Chain Gang is a group of convicts who are chained together while they do manual labor, usually outside. This was the first Pretenders single featuring Billy Bremner and Tony Butler, who replaced Farndon and Honeyman-Scott. This was released as a single almost two years before the album came out. More songs from Pretenders. More songs that are tributes to friends who died .

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