

"So we offered each other what we both needed. "He made whatever I had sound good, and I got him out of Hereford and out of the music store where he was working and put him onstage and in the studio," Hynde told Curve magazine in 2020. The lyrics – " I found a picture of you," Hynde sings, " well, it hijacked my world at night, to a place in the past we've been cast out" – became a personal remembrance, something more emotional than anything she could perhaps say out loud about Honeyman-Scott. They spent a week rehearsing with Bremner and Butler before recording began, and eventually brought in Honeyman-Scott's friend Robbie McIntosh for some additional guitar. We decided to get some people to work with us for the time being."

"So after his funeral and everything was sorted out, we thought: 'Let's get on with it.' There was never any real thought of packing it in or anything. "We had rehearsed it a lot with Jimmy, and thought it would make a pretty good single," Chambers told Creem in 1983. A basic outline for "Back on the Chain Gang" awaited them. People die - that's part of life." They were back in the studio a month later, after quickly adding Rockpile guitarist Billy Bremner and Big Country bassist Tony Butler. "I don't look back at those events as being a hardship," she told Rolling Stone in 1984.
