The pretenders music video
With the old showbiz motto of “the show must go on” ringing in her ears, no doubt, she kept recording and performing, but it must have been hard and I’m sure at times must have felt like being on forced labour of some sort.
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The only prison “Back On The Chain Gang” really talks about is the prison of your mind…although that is often a much darker place than the kind with physical bars on the windows and, for most people, much harder to escape from.Ĭhrissie Hynde wrote “Back On The Chain Gang” after one of her band members died suddenly and unexpectedly from a drug overdose. Although I’m glad to see the video director gave in to the temptation to weave together a few these fairly obvious themes, as you’ll see in a moment.
“Back On The Chain Gang” isn’t about convicts building railroads somewhere in the Deep South…or breaking rocks to make road surfaces…or sewing mailbags…or anything like that. I enjoy my job, in fairness, but even I thought it was a great song for 6.30 on a Monday morning. In an inspired piece of radio programming, “Back On The Chain Gang” popped up as I jumped in my car for the long drive to work last Monday.Īlthough the song is nothing to do with work at all, I’m pretty sure most of us can relate to the idea of being “on the chain gang” when they get back to work after a weekend off.
“Back On The Chain Gang” - The Pretenders