She wouldn't take legal action against his unlicensed use of "My City Was Gone" if he forwarded all royalties she was due to the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA), an organization Limbaugh despised. He told the press in 1997 that he liked playing the song because Hynde was an "environmentalist, animal-rights wacko" and it was a way of taking "a liberal song and fun of them at the same time."Ĭhrissie responded by leveraging her rights against Limbaugh, and then offering him a compromise. Hynde, an outspoken liberal, was aware of Limbaugh's appropriation of the song for years, but allowed him to continue using it unchecked because her father, Melville Hynde, was a Limbaugh fan, according to Ultimate Classic Rock.Ĭhrissie liked knowing that her dad heard her music every day when he turned on his radio, even though she disagreed with many of the views Limbaugh and her father shared.īut as it did many times in his life and career, Limbaugh's mouth eventually got him into trouble.
The late-conservative radio icon began using instrumental portions of The Pretenders' "My City Was Gone" as his show's theme song in the mid-'80s, despite not having the legal right. While Chrissie Hynde might have relished the chance to make Rush Limbaugh pay up for using a Pretenders' song on his radio show without permission, she actually let him do so unchecked for over a decade.
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