return to menu of Pretenders articlesPRETENDERS singer CHRISSIE HYNDE seems like the type of woman you wouldn't want to mess with, the kind who could handle anything.
But even Hynde seems to be a bit taken aback about how she got her first kiss, as she detailed in Details magazine: "I was taken onstage at a Jackie Wilson concert. They used to drag girls on stage out of the audience. Yeah, real cool, but at the time it kind of bummed me out, because I was white and I felt like maybe I shouldn't have been there. There weren't any other white people in the audience, just me and my girlfriend.
"And I was shy. I'd never been kissed. I was horrified. Everyone else was screaming to be picked, and I was trying to hide, but my white skin was a dead giveaway. I had no camouflage, so the guy dragged me up there and Jackie Wilson kissed me, by God."
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