This day in music history.

June 16, 1982, Pretenders guitarist James Honeyman-Scott dies from a overdose of cocaine and heroin. Two days earlier the bass player Pete Farndon was kicked out of the band because of his addiction, he would be dead from an overdose in less then a year. Chrissie Hynde would soon be pregnant with Ray Davies (The Kinks) child. She would reform the Pretenders in February 1983, adding former Manfred Mann's Earth Band guitarist Robbie McIntosh and bassist Malcolm Foster; the reconstituted band released the Learning to Crawl album in early 1984. The Learning To Crawl album is one of the great rock albums of the eighties and if you haven't heard it yet what the fuck are you waiting for? hmmmmmmmmmmmm?