From Chrissie Hynde, among rock’s most iconic, alluring, kick-ass, and (let’s face it) sexy ladies, an excellent, no-holds-barred memoir of a rock existence lived to the hilt.

Chrissie Hynde, the songwriter and frontwoman from the Pretenders in its several incarnations, has for thirty-five years been one of the most adored and adored and imitated numbers in rock. This long-awaited memoir tells her existence story in full and utterly fascinating detail, from her all-American Ohio fifties years as a child to her traditional baby-boomer seduction with the rock of the sixties to her sojourn in the crucible of punk that was seventies London to her quick emergence with her music group, The Pretenders, in 1980 into stardom like a frontwoman and songwriter. She brings a fantastic eye for details, a withering and sardonic sense of humor, and a fearless and occasionally naked emotional credibility to her memoir, and every series, every word of it is unmistakably hers. It really is sure to become recognized as a classic of rock and roll literature-and, man, is it fun to hear.