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My guest today has one of the most distinctive voices in all of rock music, and a record of success going back to the 1980s. Chrissy hyndes band, the pretenders, first made it big in the era of punk. She is still making music some three decades on, but is she still in love with rock and roll . Chrissie hynde, welcome to hardtalk. Is music as big a part of your life now as its ever been . No, not at all. Because . Well, because when i was a teenager listening to the radio, it was really the only thing i was interested in, and now its. For many reasons, thats changed. Maybe because theres not so...

Its just that hour and a half on stage, thats all. Anyone in a band will tell you that. And the origin of the creativity . The sitting down and writing songs . Does that come as easily now . Well, i dont know if it was ever easy. It was maybe more compulsive when you have nothing to do and youre alone in a room with a guitar, then eventually you will write a song. I never wrote them because i felt i had to or that i should. I felt i wanted to write songs and present them to a band. It was always about the band. Youve obviously gone in new directions, and youve got a new album out, which you re...

A HEREFORDSHIRE band and the wider 1960s music scene are being celebrated 60 years on from their heyday.

A HEREFORDSHIRE band and the wider 1960s music scene are being celebrated 60 years on from their heyday.

Take a musical trip back in time to the year of Ghosts In The Machine, Tattoo You, Killers, 4, Dead Ringer and For Those About To Rock.