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My City Was Gone
1982 single by the Pretenders
My City Was Gone
"My City Was Gone" is a song by the British rock group the Pretenders. The song originally appeared in October 1982 as the B-side to the single release of "Back on the Chain Gang"; the single was the first release for the band following the death of founding bandmember James Honeyman-Scott. The song was included on the album Learning to Crawl, which was released in early 1984, and it became a radio favorite in the United States. The song was written by Pretenders leader Chrissie Hynde, an expatriate American living in London, and reflected her growing interest in environmental and social concerns. The lyrics take the form of an autobiographical lament, with the singer returning to her childhood home in Ohio and discovering that rampant development had destroyed the "pretty countryside" of her youth. The song makes a number of specific references to places in and around Akron, including South Howard Street (line 5), the historic center of Akron that was leveled to make way for an urban...
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