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. "Message of Love" and "Talk of the Town" featured on this EP were also included on their second album ''

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'' released later the same year. "Porcelain" and "Cuban Slide", outtakes from their '' Pretenders'' debut album, were included on disc two of the 2006 and 2021 remastered editions of their debut album and on the ''Pirate Radio'' box set. The live version of "Precious" on this EP, recorded at their New York

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performance on 30 August 1980, was finally released on CD on November 5, 2021. The booklet for disc one of the ''Pretenders'' debut album from the 2015 UK Edsel/Rhino Records box set ''1979–1999'' incorrectly states "Precious" (track 17) is from that Central Park performance. Instead, the box set version is from their Boston performance of 23 March 1980; it is also included on disc two of the 2006 remastered edition of ''Pretenders''. This EP was released in the US, and also in Australia, but not in the UK. In the UK, the tracks were released as the singles "Message of Love" b/w "Porcelain" and "Talk of the Town" b/w "Cuban Slide". "Precious" is unique to this release. "Message of Love" contains the line: "We are all of us in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars" from the

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play '' Lady Windermere's Fan''.

Track listing

All songs written by Chrissie Hynde except where noted.

Side one

# " Message of Love" – 3:24 # " Talk of the Town" – 2:42 # "Porcelain" – 3:53

Side two

# "Cuban Slide" (Hynde, Honeyman-Scott) – 4:29 # " Precious" – 3:17 (Live in

, 30 August 1980)

Personnel

;The Pretenders * Chrissie Hynde – rhythm guitar, lead vocals, backing vocals * Pete Farndon –

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, backing vocals * Martin Chambers –

drums The drum is a member of the percussion instrument, percussion group of musical instruments. In the Hornbostel–Sachs classification system, it is a membranophones, membranophone. Drums consist of at least one Acoustic membrane, membrane, c ...

, backing vocals * James Honeyman-Scott –

lead guitar Lead guitar (also known as solo guitar) is a musical part for a guitar in which the guitarist plays melody lines, instrumental fill passages, guitar solos, and occasionally, some riffs and chords within a song structure. The lead is the featur ...

, keyboards, backing vocals

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References

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