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The Pretender
Jackson Browne →The Next Voice You Hear: The Best of Jackson Browne5866:40126,831 listeners509,395 plays
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This song is about a man who gives up his dreams and lives a life of routine monotony in order to accumulate money. He is the pretender. Browne's first wife, Phyllis, committed suicide in the spring of 1976, but in the wake of the tragedy he recorded his commercial breakthrough album, The Pretender. The record climbed into the Top 10 upon its fall 1976 release, going platinum in the spring of 1977. This appears on the soundtrack of the movie Mr. Holland's Opus...