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Reposted from @thelegendsofmusic The Pretenders playing “Tattoo Love Boys” Live in 1980 This song was written about a sexual assault that was committed by a biker gang against Pretenders leader Chrissie Hynde. While hanging out with a friend, she was asked to go to a “party” with some guys from a local biker gang. Her friend declined, but Hynde went along with the bikers. She takes full accountability for the attack. In her book Reckless: My Life as a Pretender, she wrote: “Now let me assure you that, technically speaking, however you want to look at it, this was all my doing and I take full responsibility. You can’t f—k around with people, especially people who wear ‘I heart rape’ and ‘On Your Knees’ badges.”u2028While she was being attacked, one of the assailants said, “Shut up or you’re going to make some plastic surgeon rich!” She paraphrases that threat in the lyrics: “You know what they say, “Stop snivellin’, you’re gonna make some plastic surgeon a rich man”. Musically, there is no chorus in this song, and the title is mentioned just twice in the lyric. That’s not the formula for a hit, but it is classic Pretenders. The song has appeared off and on in their setlists throughout their career.u2028