“I did get some bad reviews. Some people called me ‘the guy who ruined the Pretenders’”: Robbie McIntosh on his trial by fire when he replaced the late James Honeyman-Scott

Chrissie Hynde and Robbie McIntosh playing in the Pretenders.

Robbie McIntosh has reflected on his trial by fire when officially joined the Pretenders in the 1980s.

McIntosh big shoes to fill when he helped the Pretenders reform for 1984’s Learning to Crawl, two years after their cofounding guitarist James Honeyman-Scott died from a drug overdose.