2000 Miles
| "2000 Miles" | ||||
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| Single by Pretenders | ||||
| from the album Learning to Crawl | ||||
| B-side | "Fast or Slow (The Law's the Law)" | |||
| Released | 18 November 1983 | |||
| Genre | ||||
| Length | 3:40 | |||
| Label | Real (UK) Sire (US) | |||
| Songwriter(s) | Chrissie Hynde | |||
| Producer(s) | Chris Thomas | |||
| Pretenders singles chronology | ||||
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| Gatefold image | ||||
Cover image of gatefold single release (Real ARE 20F) | ||||
| Music video | ||||
| "2000 Miles" (Official Music Video) on YouTube | ||||
"2000 Miles" is a song by the British rock band the Pretenders. Written by lead vocalist Chrissie Hynde and produced by Chris Thomas, it was released on 18 November 1983 as the second single from their third studio album, Learning to Crawl (1984). It was most popular in the UK, where it peaked at No. 15 on the UK Singles Chart in December 1983. In the US, it was released as the B-side of both the 7-inch single and 12-inch single remix of the band's hit "Middle of the Road".
Influenced by Otis Redding's "Thousand Miles Away", the song was written a year after the band's guitarist, James Honeyman-Scott, had died of a drug overdose in 1982. Hyde has noted that she thinks "the sense of distance in the lyrics" refers to Honeyman-Scott". Considered a Christmas song, it has been released on various Christmas compilation albums.