Please check out the video of Hynde and The Pretenders performing “2000 Miles” live in Sydney, Australia, in 2010. The Pretenders were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2005. Reunited once again, the band has been touring since 2016. The band has performed on and off for the past 39 years, with Hynde embarking on a solo career in 2014. She told Classic Rock Magazine, “I think it captures the mood of the season perfectly as it gets cold in Sweden, reindeer wander the streets freely and the snow was coming down! Happy Christmas!”Ĭoldplay (2003), The Mighty Mighty Bosstones (2010), Natalie Imbruglia (2010), Mark Kozelek (2014), Kylie Minogue (2015) and Tom Chaplic (2017) have all covered “2000 Miles” for their holiday albums.īorn in Akron, Ohio, in 1951, Hynde formed The Pretenders in Hereford, England, in 1978.
THE PRETENDERS - 2000 MILES 7' VINYL (EX) Condition: Used. It was released as a Christmas single in the UK that December. Details about THE PRETENDERS - 2000 MILES 7' VINYL (EX) See original listing. In 2014, while finishing up her album Stockholm, Hynde collaborated with Swede Bjorn Yttling on an updated version of “2000 Miles. Learning to Crawl earned the #5 spot on the U.S. The single was popular in the UK, where it peaked at #15 on the UK Singles Chart. “2000 Miles” was released as a single in December of 1983 and appeared as the 10th track of The Pretenders’ Learning to Crawl album. While many people see “2000 Miles” as a sweet Christmas song about a young woman yearning to be closer to her lover during the holidays, the tune is actually Hynde’s tribute to guitarist and founding band member James Honeyman-Scott, who died of a drug overdose in 1982 at the age of 25.
She sings, “In these frozen and silent nights / Sometimes in a dream… you appear / Outside under the purple sky / Diamonds in the snow… sparkle / Our hearts were singing / It felt like Christmastime. In the 1983 holiday release, “2000 Miles,” Chrissie Hynde of The Pretenders paints a picture of a diamond-embellished winter scene while lamenting the fact that she’s far away from the one she loves at Christmastime. Welcome to Music Friday when we bring you great songs with jewelry, gemstones or precious metals in the title or lyrics.
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