Chrissie Hynde, who once dated Sex Pistols founder and guitarist Steve Jones, will be portrayed by actress Sydney Chandler in the upcoming Hulu series Pistol.
“He was a teenager when I met him. I didn’t notice him carrying a sack full of dreams around, but he was. Like all of us, he wanted to play guitar in a rock ‘n’ roll band,” said Hynde, who wrote the forward of Jones’ 2016 memoir. “But none of the bands out there fit.”
The six-part Pistol series is based on Jones’ book, Lonely Boy: Tales from a Sex Pistol and his pre-fame rendezvous with Hynde will apparently be part of the story. “The girls had a soft spot for this shy West London thug and he took full advantage,” Hynde said of Jones.
The future Pretenders leader moved from Ohio to London in 1973 at the age of 22, in search of a fresh start. She got a job at Sex, Malcolm McLaren, and Vivienne Westwood’s boutique frequented by Sex Pistol’s members, and began to embed herself in the punk music scene.
“A teenage west London delinquent, Steve Jones, hung out around the shop. (I had no idea he had aspirations to play guitar; he had no idea I did, either.) Malcolm and Viv seemed to have taken him under their wing for some reason, to help keep him out of trouble,” Hynde said in her 2016 book, Reckless: My Life as a Pretender. The two musicians soon connected on more than just music. “When Chrissie was working at the shop she’d shut the place up and we’d put Malcolm and Vivienne’s gospel of Sex into practice,” Jones recalled.
Who is Chrissie in the pistol?
Sydney Chandler stars as Chrissie Hynde. Born in Akron, Ohio, Chrissie has embarked on her U.K. odyssey out of a love for English music. Smart, strong, tough, and talented – she’s fiercely determined to succeed.
Source: Ghanafuo.com
