James Honeyman-Scott

Live review: The Pretenders, Cat Power and Juliette Lewis 09/04/2009

One of rock's many tragic drug-related casualties, Pretenders guitarist James Honeyman-Scott was one of the most original and versatile guitarists of the early-'80s new wave movement, making the senselessness of his 1982 death even greater. Born on November 4, 1956, in Hereford, England, Honeyman-Scott began taking piano lessons at the age of seven. Although he couldn't read music (he was entirely ...more