I keep getting Emails from people asking me to re-upload the links and music etc. I think people are just getting to those particular pages so are not reading the reason for the dead links.
So I am putting this in place so hopefully people will read it and stop Emailing me about it.
The reason the links are dead is that my account with Media Fire has been closed with all 11,000 files lost. That is why you can not download the things and No I can not re-upload them.
Eventually I will start doing that again when I have found something suitable. In the meantime this blog will be information only blog.
Thank you all
Michaael
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'2000 Miles' is a song by The Pretenders released in 1983 as the preceding single to their 1984 album, 'Learning to Crawl'.
In the US, it was released as both 7 inch 45 as the B-side of the single 'Middle of the Road' and a 12 inch remix.
It was most popular in the UK, where it charted at number 15.
Considered a Christmas song, it has also been released on various compilation albums. While most people believe 2,000 miles is the distance between two long distance lovers who miss each other over the holidays, it is actually meant to be for James Honeyman-Scott, the group's original guitar player.
Click the link below to download the following: Video Single Version Fast Or Slow (The Laws The Law) - B-Side Money (Live) - B-Side
Get Close is the fourth album by rock group The Pretenders, released in 1986.
Officially, the band for this album now consisted of Chrissie Hynde (vocals, guitar), Robbie McIntosh (guitar), T.M. Stevens (bass) and Blair Cunningham (drums); however, this line-up (often augmented by session players) played on only five of the album's eleven tracks.
As well, the track 'Room Full Of Mirrors' was in fact performed by the Learning to Crawl-era line up of Hynde, Mcintosh, Malcolm Foster and Martin Chambers, with keyboards by Rupert Black. The rest of the album was performed by Hynde and McIntosh, backed by session musicians.
The album contained the band's two biggest chart hits, 'Don't Get Me Wrong' and 'Hymn To Her'.
The album reached number 6 in the UK Album Charts.
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Tracklisting: 01 - My Baby 02 - When I Change My Life 03 - Light Of The Moon 04 - Dance! - Full Length Version 05 - Tradition Of Love 06 - Don't Get Me Wrong 07 - I Remember You 08 - How Much Did You Get For Your Soul? 09 - Chill Factor 10 - Hymn To Her 11 - Room Full Of Mirrors
'Don't Get Me Wrong' is a song released by the pop-rock group The Pretenders. It was the first single taken from the group's 1986 album, Get Close. It can also be found on the band's The Singles album, released in 1987.
In the US, 'Don't Get Me Wrong' became the group's second Top 10 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, peaking at number 10.
Their first Top 10 pop hit, 'Back on the Chain Gang', had reached number 5 in 1983. 'Don't Get Me Wrong' also spent three weeks atop the Billboard Album Rock Tracks chart in November 1986.
In the UK, the song also peaked at number 10 in the UK Singles Chart.
This song was more commercial than the band's usual sound, with a jangly guitar sound and a pop melody. However, the lyrics were still as biting as their earlier material. It was covered by British pop singer Lily Allen for BBC Radio 1's 30th anniversary celebrations in 2007 and was released on the subsequent compilation album.
Click the link below to download the following: Video Single Version Album Version Dance - B-Side Dance - Full Length Version
'Brass in Pocket' (also known as 'Brass in Pocket (I'm Special)') is a single by The Pretenders. It was written by Chrissie Hynde and James Honeyman-Scott, and produced by Chris Thomas.
The band's third single, it was their first success, scoring number one on the UK Singles Chart for two weeks in January 1980 (making it the first proper number-one single of the 1980s after Another Brick In The Wall by Pink Floyd), number two in Australia during May 1980, and number fourteen on the Popular Singles chart in the United States. The song takes its title from an expression Hynde heard from a member of a Yorkshire-based support band who was looking for his money.
During an interview with The Observer in 2004, Hynde revealed that she was initially reluctant to have the song released: "When we recorded the song I wasn't very happy with it and told my producer that he could release it over my dead body, but they eventually persuaded me. So I remember feeling a bit sheepish when it went to number one."
In the accompanying music video for the single, Hynde portrays a waitress working in a greasy spoon who encounters a sleepy customer. She suddenly sees three men (her band members) approaching in a car outside. Hynde attempts to look elegant on their entrance and is clearly seen flirting with one of the men (Pete Farndon) after they've been seated. Pete doesn't respond to her overtures. Just then, three seductively dressed women (the men's girlfriends) enter the greasy spoon, sit at the men's table and begin to kiss their partners. Farndon's girlfriend isn't impressed when he appears to respond to Chrissie's flirting. Suddenly, the couples decide to leave the cafe without eating. Hynde is saddened and watches them outside leaving in their car, not feeling remotely "special".
It was the seventh video played during MTV's launch on August 1, 1981.
Click the link below to download the following: Video Single Version Swinging London - B-Side Nervous But Shy - B-Side
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