Get Close

Get Close
Get Close
Studio album by the Pretenders
Released	20 October 1986
Studio	AIR (London); Power Station (New York City); Bearsville (Bearsville, New York); Right Track Recording (New York City); Polar (Stockholm);
Genre	New wave; soft rock;
Length	47:01
Label	Real
Producer	Bob Clearmountain; Jimmy Iovine; Steve Lillywhite;
The Pretenders chronology
Singles from Get Close
	"Don't Get Me Wrong"; Released: 22 September 1986; "Hymn to Her"; Released: 1 December 1986; "My Baby"; Released: January 1987;

Professional ratings
Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic
Chicago Tribune
Robert Christgau	B
The Music Box
Rolling Stone	Unfavorable
The Rolling Stone Album Guide

Get Close is the fourth studio album by rock band the Pretenders, released on 20 October 1986 in the United Kingdom by Real Records and on 4 November 1986 in the United States by Sire Records. The album contains the band's two highest-charting Mainstream Rock Tracks entries, "Don't Get Me Wrong" and "My Baby", both of which reached number one.

The album would be the last Pretenders album with drummer Martin Chambers until The Last of the Independents. Hynde fired Chambers because she thought his playing was unsatisfactory, though she would acknowledge in interviews that it was because he was still coping with the deaths of former members Pete Farndon and James Honeyman-Scott and it was affecting him musically.