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''Learning to Crawl'' is the Pretenders' third album, released in 1984, after a hiatus, during which time James Honeyman-Scott and Pete Farndon both died of drug overdoses. After Farndon's dismissal from the band and Honeyman-Scott's death, Chrissie Hynde and Martin Chambers initially recruited Rockpile's Billy Bremner and Big Country's Tony Butler to fill in a caretaker line-up of the band in 1982. Bremner played guitar and Butler played bass on the band's September 1982 single "Back on the Chain Gang/My City Was Gone", both sides of which were later included on ''Learning to Crawl''. As the album sessions got under way, Bremner, Graham Parker's bass player Andrew Bodnar, and Paul Carrack (formerly of Squeeze, Ace and Roxy Music) played guitar, bass and piano respectively for the track "Thin Line Between Love and Hate". Finally, Robbie McIntosh (guitar) and Malcolm Foster (bass) were recruited to join Hynde and Chambers, and the band was now officially a quartet. It was this line-up that recorded the rest of the tracks featured on ''Learning to Crawl''. The November 1983 single "2000 Miles/Fast or Slow (The Law's the Law)" was the newly reconstituted foursome's first release, followed shortly by the full ''Learning to Crawl'' album in June 1983. The album's title of "Learning to Crawl" was given in honor of Chrissie Hynde's then-newborn daughter, Natalie Rae Hynde. She was learning to crawl at the time that Chrissie was trying to determine a name for the album. ==Song origins== Hynde noted in the booklet for the expanded edition of "Learning to Crawl" that guitarist Robbie McIntosh came up with the opening guitar riff for "2000 Miles". She stated that she probably should have credited McIntosh as co-writer of the song for providing the opening to the song.〔CD booklet "Learning to Crawl" expanded edition, 2007, Rhino Records〕 "2000 Miles" became a popular Christmas song in the UK. Often interpreted as a tale of two lovers apart during the holidays, Hynde wrote the song for her former bandmate James Honeyman-Scott after he died prior to beginning work on the band's third album. "My City Was Gone" is largely an autobiographical song written about the changes that Hynde observed when she went back to her native city of Akron, Ohio.〔CD booklet, "Learning to Crawl" expanded edition, 2007, Rhino Records〕 "Watching the Clothes" was an older song that was written before the band's début album. Hynde was inspired to write the song after a close friend had died.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Learning to Crawl」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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