Get Close is the fourth album by rock group The Pretenders, released in 1986. Officially, the band for this album now consisted of Chrissie Hynde (vocals, guitar), Robbie McIntosh (guitar), T.M. Stevens (bass) and Blair Cunningham (drums); however, this line-up (often augmented by session players) played on only five of the album's eleven tracks. As well, the track "Room Full of Mirrors" was in fact performed by the Learning to Crawl-era line up of Hynde, Mcintosh, Malcolm Foster and Martin Chambers, with keyboards by Rupert Black. The rest of the album was performed by Hynde and McIntosh, backed by session musicians. The album contained the band's two biggest Mainstream Rock Tracks chart hits, "Don't Get Me Wrong" and "My Baby", both of which reached #1. McIntosh and Cunningham would be re-united in 1992 as members of Paul McCartney's backing band. They appear together on McCartney's 1993 album Off the Ground and the subsequent live release Paul Is Live.

Personnel

*Chrissie Hynde – rhythm guitar, vocals

*Robbie McIntosh – lead guitar

*T. M. Stevens – bass

*Blair Cunningham – drums, percussion

Additional personnel

*Bernie Worrell – organ, synthesizer

*Martin Chambers – drums

*Rupert Black – keyboards

*Carlos Alomar – synthesizer, percussion

*Bruce Brody – organ

*Mel Gaynor – drums

*Steve Jordan – drums, percussion

*Tommy Mandel – synthesizer

*John McKenzie – bass

*Chucho Merchan – bass

*Simon Phillips – drums

*Patrick Seymour – synthesizer

*Lakshminarayana Shankar – violin

*Bruce Thomas – bass

*Paul "Wix" Wickens – synthesizer, piano

Category:The Pretenders albums

Category:1986 albums

Category:Sire Records albums

Category:Albums produced by Bob Clearmountain

Category:albums produced by Jimmy Iovine

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