oseph Corre, the son of legendary punk-era iconoclasts Malcolm McLaren and Vivienne Westwood, recently destroyed over $ 6 million worth of valuable punk memorabilia on the

duced by fellow Akronite Dan Auerbach of Black Keys renown. Or it could still refer to its original nebulous concept.“ The whole idea of punk was, you just had to be yourself,” she adds.“ You didn’ t have to do anything, and as soon as you felt that you had to something, it was already not punk anymore. And I think that’ s where Joseph was coming from – punk lasted about six months, then all of a sudden it became about collector’ s items and worth a lot of money. But as far as the music, I’ m beholden to punk because it was about non-discrimination.” As a 27-year-old female attempting to break into a traditionally young man’ s game in the late‘ 70s, she initially didn’ t think she stood a

Thames to protest London’ s populist celebration of the movement’ s 40th anniversary, something that Pretenders bandleader Chrissie Hynde knew about beforehand.“ Because I’ ve known Joe since he was five, and he’ s a friend,” she says.“ But I never collected anything, so I had no take on it. I mean, I had all sorts of stuff that Sid( Vicious, Sex Pistols founder) signed, and I just took it to Oxfam.” So what does punk signify in 2017? It could summarize the scrappy old-school spirit coursing through Alone, the latest garagegreasy riff-fest from Hynde’ s group, pro-

chance.“ But punk offered me a way in, although I don’ t think I was making punk rock at the time.”

ILLINOIS ENTERTAINER: Did writing your autobiography“ Reckless: My Life as a Pretender” take you back down a punk rock memory lane? Because you were there in Britain at the start of it all. CHRISSE HYNDE: Actually, it was like I was trying to get rid of it, because I have to keep talking about this shit all the time. And I think with anyone, no matter what you do, you get to a certain age, and it’ s

nice to write your life down on paper, because then you can kind of get rid of it. And because I’ m in more of a public capacity, I have an opportunity to sell this shit. But I think someone who works in a

Chrissie Hynde, 2016

shoe store would have the same experience, where they’ d like to turn the page on their past. So I wasn’ t really trying to write my story – it turned out to be a story of the time I grew up in. And I’ m not really a