oseph Corre , the son of legendary punk-era iconoclasts Malcolm McLaren and Vivienne Westwood , recently destroyed over $ 6 million worth of valuable punk memorabilia on the

duced by fellow Akronite Dan Auerbach of Black Keys renown . Or it could still refer to its original nebulous concept . “ The whole idea of punk was , you just had to be yourself ,” she adds . “ You didn ’ t have to do anything , and as soon as you felt that you had to something , it was already not punk anymore . And I think that ’ s where Joseph was coming from – punk lasted about six months , then all of a sudden it became about collector ’ s items and worth a lot of money . But as far as the music , I ’ m beholden to punk because it was about non-discrimination .” As a 27-year-old female attempting to break into a traditionally young man ’ s game in the late ‘ 70s , she initially didn ’ t think she stood a

Thames to protest London ’ s populist celebration of the movement ’ s 40th anniversary , something that Pretenders bandleader Chrissie Hynde knew about beforehand . “ Because I ’ ve known Joe since he was five , and he ’ s a friend ,” she says . “ But I never collected anything , so I had no take on it . I mean , I had all sorts of stuff that Sid ( Vicious , Sex Pistols founder ) signed , and I just took it to Oxfam .” So what does punk signify in 2017 ? It could summarize the scrappy old-school spirit coursing through Alone , the latest garagegreasy riff-fest from Hynde ’ s group , pro-

chance . “ But punk offered me a way in , although I don ’ t think I was making punk rock at the time .”

ILLINOIS ENTERTAINER : Did writing your autobiography “ Reckless : My Life as a Pretender ” take you back down a punk rock memory lane ? Because you were there in Britain at the start of it all . CHRISSE HYNDE : Actually , it was like I was trying to get rid of it , because I have to keep talking about this shit all the time . And I think with anyone , no matter what you do , you get to a certain age , and it ’ s

nice to write your life down on paper , because then you can kind of get rid of it . And because I ’ m in more of a public capacity , I have an opportunity to sell this shit . But I think someone who works in a

Chrissie Hynde , 2016

shoe store would have the same experience , where they ’ d like to turn the page on their past . So I wasn ’ t really trying to write my story – it turned out to be a story of the time I grew up in . And I ’ m not really a