Blessed with an evergreen voice and an unimpeachable melodic ear, Chrissie Hynde – the keeper of one of the finer catalogues in rock – has been churning out consistently rewarding records of late.
She'd first met some members of the notorious biker gang in Cleveland where they were working security at a rock concert she went to in the late '60s, according to The Daily Mail. She was a teen at the time and went to an after-party with the bikers and the band,that night went well for Hynde.
But by 1972 she had dropped out, and that's the year she had her second encounter with members of the Hells Angels. This time they would live up to their reputation.
In Chrissie Hynde's 2015 memoir, "Reckless: My Life as a Pretender" she told her story of being forced by members of the Hells Angels to do sex acts in 1972 when she was 21 years old. The Daily Mail reported that when Hynde encountered some members of the Hells Angels at the jail, she was high on Qualudes, a popular sedative at the time. When the bikers invited her to a party, she was all in, though a friend she was with declined, so Hynde went alone.
Yet there was no party. The men took her to their dilapidated clubhouse and she quickly realized "the party was going to be hosted exclusively by yours truly," per what she wrote in the book. The men told her to undress, and when she hesitated, one said if she didn't comply they would beat her so badly she would "make some plastic surgeon rich" (via the Daily Mail). The men assaulted her and threw lit matches at her naked body. One of them drove her home the next morning, patted her on the thigh, and told her she wasn't a "half-bad chic."
Hynde didn't report the assault, instead, she chalked it up to one of life's experiences and even dated the biker who took her home for a brief time. During that time he shared her with another gang member who was physically abusive toward her. Hynde got out of the situation, but she always blamed herself.
"Technically speaking, (says Hynde)however you want to look at it, this was all my doing and I take full responsibility. You can't f*** about with people, especially people who wear 'I Heart Rape' and 'On Your Knees' badges ... those motorcycle gangs, that's what they do."
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