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</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">For the Scottish Roman Catholic clergyman, see <a href="Martin_Chambers_(priest)" title="Martin Chambers (priest)">Martin Chambers (priest)</a>.</div>

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</style><table class="infobox vcard plainlist"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above" style="color: #202122;background-color: #b0c4de; font-size: 125%;"><div class="fn">Martin Chambers</div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span typeof="mw:File"></span></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="color: #202122;background-color: #b0c4de">Background information</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><span class="nowrap">Birth name</span></th><td class="infobox-data nickname">Martin Dale Chambers</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Born</th><td class="infobox-data"><span style="display:none"> (<span class="bday">1951-09-04</span>) </span>4 September 1951<br><a href="Hereford" title="Hereford">Hereford</a>, <a href="Herefordshire" title="Herefordshire">Herefordshire</a>, England</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Genres</th><td class="infobox-data"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1129693374">

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</style><div class="hlist"><ul><li><a href="Rock_music" title="Rock music">Rock</a></li><li><a href="New_wave_music" title="New wave music">new wave</a></li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Occupations</th><td class="infobox-data role"><div class="hlist"><ul><li>Musician</li><li>songwriter</li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Instruments</th><td class="infobox-data note"><div class="hlist"><ul><li>Drums</li><li>vocals</li></ul></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Labels</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="Sire_Records" title="Sire Records">Sire</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Member of</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="The_Pretenders" title="The Pretenders">The Pretenders</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Formerly of</th><td class="infobox-data"><div class="hlist"><ul><li><a href="Mott_the_Hoople" title="Mott the Hoople">Mott the Hoople</a></li><li>The Cheeks</li></ul></div></td></tr></tbody></table>

<p><b>Martin Dale Chambers</b> (born 4 September 1951) is an English musician, best known as a founding member and <a href="Drumkit" class="mw-redirect" title="Drumkit">drummer</a> of the <a href="Rock_band" class="mw-redirect" title="Rock band">rock band</a> <a href="The_Pretenders" title="The Pretenders">the Pretenders</a>. In addition to playing the drums with the group, Chambers sings <a href="Backing_vocalist" title="Backing vocalist">backing vocals</a> (<a href="Singing" title="Singing">lead vocals</a> on the song "Fast or Slow (The Law's the Law)", the B-side of the singles "2000 Miles" and "Show Me", which he also wrote) and plays <a href="Percussion_instrument" title="Percussion instrument">percussion</a>. He was part of the original band line-up, which also included <a href="Chrissie_Hynde" title="Chrissie Hynde">Chrissie Hynde</a> (<a href="Singing" title="Singing">vocals</a>/<a href="Guitar" title="Guitar">guitar</a>), <a href="James_Honeyman-Scott" title="James Honeyman-Scott">James Honeyman-Scott</a> (<a href="Guitar" title="Guitar">guitar</a>/<a href="Backing_vocalist" title="Backing vocalist">vocals</a>/<a href="Keyboard_instrument" title="Keyboard instrument">keyboards</a>) and <a href="Pete_Farndon" title="Pete Farndon">Pete Farndon</a> (<a href="Bass_guitar" title="Bass guitar">bass guitar</a>/<a href="Backing_vocalist" title="Backing vocalist">vocals</a>). Hynde and Chambers are the only two surviving original members, and he has served two separate tenures with the group.

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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Career">Career</h2></div>

<p>Prior to joining the as yet unnamed Pretenders, Chambers played with <a href="James_Honeyman-Scott" title="James Honeyman-Scott">James Honeyman-Scott</a> in Cheeks, a band led by former <a href="Mott_the_Hoople" title="Mott the Hoople">Mott the Hoople</a> <a href="Keyboardist" title="Keyboardist">keyboardist</a> <a href="Verden_Allen" title="Verden Allen">Verden Allen</a>. At the time Chambers joined the yet unnamed band in 1978, he was working as a <a href="Driver's_Education" class="mw-redirect" title="Driver's Education">driving instructor</a> in <a href="Tufnell_Park" title="Tufnell Park">Tufnell Park</a>, <a href="London" title="London">London</a> where he had got a job with the <a href="British_School_of_Motoring" title="British School of Motoring">British School of Motoring</a> "because it came with a car so I could get about" and because of that he found where Jim and Pete were living and then replaced Gerry Mcilduff on <a href="Drum_kit" title="Drum kit">drums</a> (Uncut, 1999). At Chambers's first rehearsal with the group, Hynde recalled: "We plugged in and started playing "Precious", and I remember clearly, I had to turn around and face the wall, I was laughing so hard, because as soon as Martin started playing with us, I knew this was it. We had the band." (Uncut, 1999). Martin also recalled the rehearsal "We knew it straight away. We just locked in." (Rhino Entertainment Company, 2006). In the Autumn of 1981, <a href="The_Pretenders" title="The Pretenders">The Pretenders</a> cancelled their US+Canada Tour as Chambers had cut his hand, and the injury was so bad that he couldn’t play for a number of weeks. The band decided to postpone the tour rather than replace Chambers.

</p><p>Chambers proved to be a versatile drummer within the group, with a hard-hitting style that is evident on <a href="Song" title="Song">songs</a> such as "Middle of the Road". Guitarist <a href="Adam_Seymour_(musician)" class="mw-redirect" title="Adam Seymour (musician)">Adam Seymour</a> has acknowledged that "there's a definite thing going on in the rhythm between Chrissie's guitar and Martin's drums that you would need a scientific equation to explain. Martin kind of pulls back on the beat while Chrissie's pushing it forward." (Rhino Entertainment Company, 2006).

</p><p>Chambers' first tenure with the group lasted from mid-1978 until the mid-1980s. Coping with the death of bandmates Honeyman-Scott and Farndon proved difficult, and his consequent lack of enthusiasm resulted in his departure from the group during the <i><a href="Get_Close" title="Get Close">Get Close</a></i> sessions. According to Hynde, "I felt his playing had deteriorated. I think he was still very traumatized by [the loss of] Pete and Jimmy." (Uncut, 1999) Martin concurred, admitting "I wasn't really into it to be honest."

</p><p>Chambers rejoined the group in 1994 during the sessions for <i><a href="Last_of_the_Independents" title="Last of the Independents">Last of the Independents</a></i>, and has been with the group ever since (Uncut, 1999). When he rejoined, Seymour recalled "When Martin sat down, it began to feel like a real band." Martin summed up his reunion with the group, saying: "at the end of the day [Chrissie] asked me back because no one could make it work quite like we did." (Rhino Entertainment Company, 2006) Hynde concurred, saying: "I missed him terribly. ... Both he and I were floundering—and probably not playing well—and I needed someone to kick me in the ass and inspire me. We went through one song and it was the same buzz as when we first played together. No one has that swing and feel." (Hot Press, 1994).

</p><p>In late 2008, The Pretenders released the album <i><a href="Break_Up_the_Concrete" title="Break Up the Concrete">Break Up the Concrete</a></i> with Chambers being replaced by <a href="Jim_Keltner" title="Jim Keltner">Jim Keltner</a>, although Chambers remained an official member and played with the band on live dates. He did, however, appear on the 2020 album <i><a href="Hate_for_Sale" title="Hate for Sale">Hate for Sale</a></i>. In addition to playing with the Pretenders, Chambers also plays in the band Miss World fronted by <a href="Songwriter" title="Songwriter">songwriter</a> Jonathan Perkins, who had worked with artists such as XTC and Original Mirrors.

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<p>In late September and early October 2009, Chambers sat in on drums for the seven Mott the Hoople reunion shows (two in Monmouth and five at Hammersmith Odeon) alongside former Cheeks bandmate Verden Allen due to the illness of Dale Griffin who had loaned Chambers his kit for his first live show in 1967 at St. Mary's Church Hall, <a href="Ross_on_Wye" class="mw-redirect" title="Ross on Wye">Ross on Wye</a>, Herefordshire.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>

</p><p>Chambers played drums on the fourth <a href="Razorlight" title="Razorlight">Razorlight</a> album, <i>Olympus Sleeping</i> (2018).<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>

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<div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Discography">Discography</h2></div>

<ul><li>1979 – <i><a href="Pretenders_(album)" title="Pretenders (album)">Pretenders</a></i></li>

<li>1980 – “A Swift One”, on the <i>Miniatures (A Sequence Of Fifty-One Tiny Masterpieces Edited By Morgan-Fisher)</i> compilation</li>

<li>1981 – <i><a href="Extended_Play_(The_Pretenders_EP)" class="mw-redirect" title="Extended Play (The Pretenders EP)">Extended Play</a></i></li>

<li>1981 – <i><a href="Pretenders_II" title="Pretenders II">Pretenders II</a></i></li>

<li>1984 – <i><a href="Learning_to_Crawl" title="Learning to Crawl">Learning to Crawl</a></i></li>

<li>1986 – <i><a href="Get_Close" title="Get Close">Get Close</a></i> (track 11)</li>

<li>1994 – <i><a href="Last_of_the_Independents" title="Last of the Independents">Last of the Independents</a></i> (tracks 3, 4, 6 & 12)</li>

<li>2002 – <i><a href="Loose_Screw" title="Loose Screw">Loose Screw</a></i></li>

<li>2009 – <i>Hammersmith Live</i> with Mott the Hoople</li>

<li>2014 – DVD Mott the Hoople Live in Manchester November 2013</li>

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<ul><li><i>Hot Press</i>, Hynde Sight, 4 May 1994.</li>

<li>Ben Edmonds, Rhino Entertainment Company (2006), <i>This Is Pirate Radio</i>, Pirate Radio Box Set booklet.</li>

<li>Allan Jones, <i>Uncut</i>, June 1999, Rock and Roll Heart (Pretenders Special), by Allan Jones, pp. 46–65.</li></ul>

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</style><cite id="CITEREFReporters2016" class="citation news cs1">Reporters, Telegraph (2016). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.telegraph.co.uk/music/news/mott-the-hoople-drummer-dale-griffin-dies-at-67/">"Mott the Hoople drummer Dale Griffin dies at 67"</a>. <i>The Telegraph</i>. <a href="ISSN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISSN (identifier)">ISSN</a> <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://search.worldcat.org/issn/0307-1235">0307-1235</a><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">20 October</span> 2017</span>.</cite></span>

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<li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/razorlight-announce-new-album-olympus-sleeping-and-release-four-new-songs__23741/">"Razorlight announce first album in ten years, release four new songs"</a>. <i><a href="Official_Charts_Company" title="Official Charts Company">Official Charts</a></i>.</cite></span>

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<ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.pretenders.org.uk">Pretenders 977 Radio</a></li></ul>

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</style><div id="The_Pretenders449" class="fn org" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em"><a href="The_Pretenders" title="The Pretenders">The Pretenders</a></div></th></tr><tr><td class="navbox-abovebelow" colspan="2"><div>

<ul><li><b><a href="Chrissie_Hynde" title="Chrissie Hynde">Chrissie Hynde</a></b></li>

<li><b>Nick Wilkinson</b></li>

<li><b><a href="James_Walbourne" title="James Walbourne">James Walbourne</a></b></li>

<li><b>Eric Heywood</b></li>

<li><b><a href="Carwyn_Ellis" title="Carwyn Ellis">Carwyn Ellis</a></b></li></ul>

<ul><li><a href="James_Honeyman-Scott" title="James Honeyman-Scott">James Honeyman-Scott</a></li>

<li><a href="Pete_Farndon" title="Pete Farndon">Pete Farndon</a></li>

<li><a href="Robbie_McIntosh" title="Robbie McIntosh">Robbie McIntosh</a></li>

<li><a href="Malcolm_Foster" title="Malcolm Foster">Malcolm Foster</a></li>

<li><a href="Blair_Cunningham" title="Blair Cunningham">Blair Cunningham</a></li>

<li><a href="T._M._Stevens" title="T. M. Stevens">T. M. Stevens</a></li>

<li><a href="Johnny_Marr" title="Johnny Marr">Johnny Marr</a></li>

<li>Adam Seymour</li>

<li><a href="Andy_Rourke" title="Andy Rourke">Andy Rourke</a></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Studio albums</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><i><a href="Pretenders_(album)" title="Pretenders (album)">Pretenders</a></i></li>

<li><i><a href="Pretenders_II" title="Pretenders II">Pretenders II</a></i></li>

<li><i><a href="Learning_to_Crawl" title="Learning to Crawl">Learning to Crawl</a></i></li>

<li><i><a href="Get_Close" title="Get Close">Get Close</a></i></li>

<li><i><a href="Packed!" title="Packed!">Packed!</a></i></li>

<li><i><a href="Last_of_the_Independents" title="Last of the Independents">Last of the Independents</a></i></li>

<li><i><a href="Loose_Screw" title="Loose Screw">Loose Screw</a></i></li>

<li><i><a href="Break_Up_the_Concrete" title="Break Up the Concrete">Break Up the Concrete</a></i></li>

<li><i><a href="Alone_(The_Pretenders_album)" title="Alone (The Pretenders album)">Alone</a></i></li>

<li><i><a href="Relentless_(The_Pretenders_album)" title="Relentless (The Pretenders album)">Relentless</a></i></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Live albums</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Extended plays</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><i><a href="Extended_Play_(Pretenders_EP)" title="Extended Play (Pretenders EP)">Extended Play</a></i></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Compilation albums</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><i><a href="The_Singles_(Pretenders_album)" title="The Singles (Pretenders album)">The Singles</a></i></li>

<li><i><a href="Greatest_Hits_(Pretenders_album)" title="Greatest Hits (Pretenders album)">Greatest Hits</a></i></li>

<li><i><a href="Pirate_Radio_(box_set)" title="Pirate Radio (box set)">Pirate Radio</a></i></li>

<li><i><a href="Break_Up_the_Concrete#Disc_one_–_The_Best_of_Pretenders" title="Break Up the Concrete">The Best of Pretenders</a></i></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Songs</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li>"<a href="Stop_Your_Sobbing#The_Pretenders_version" title="Stop Your Sobbing">Stop Your Sobbing</a>"</li>

<li>"<a href="Brass_in_Pocket" title="Brass in Pocket">Brass in Pocket</a>"</li>

<li>"<a href="Precious_(Pretenders_song)" title="Precious (Pretenders song)">Precious</a>"</li>

<li>"<a href="Private_Life_(song)" title="Private Life (song)">Private Life</a>"</li>

<li>"<a href="Message_of_Love" title="Message of Love">Message of Love</a>"</li>

<li>"<a href="I_Go_to_Sleep" title="I Go to Sleep">I Go to Sleep</a>"</li>

<li>"<a href="Back_on_the_Chain_Gang" title="Back on the Chain Gang">Back on the Chain Gang</a>"</li>

<li>"<a href="2000_Miles" title="2000 Miles">2000 Miles</a>"</li>

<li>"<a href="Middle_of_the_Road_(song)" title="Middle of the Road (song)">Middle of the Road</a>"</li>

<li>"<a href="Thin_Line_Between_Love_and_Hate" title="Thin Line Between Love and Hate">Thin Line Between Love and Hate</a>"</li>

<li>"<a href="Don't_Get_Me_Wrong" title="Don't Get Me Wrong">Don't Get Me Wrong</a>"</li>

<li>"<a href="Where_Has_Everybody_Gone%3F" title="Where Has Everybody Gone?">Where Has Everybody Gone?</a>"</li>

<li>"<a href="I'll_Stand_by_You" title="I'll Stand by You">I'll Stand by You</a>"</li>

<li>"<a href="Human_on_the_Inside" title="Human on the Inside">Human</a>"</li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Chrissie Hynde solo</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><i><a href="Stockholm_(Chrissie_Hynde_album)" title="Stockholm (Chrissie Hynde album)">Stockholm</a></i></li>

<li><i><a href="Valve_Bone_Woe" title="Valve Bone Woe">Valve Bone Woe</a></i></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Related articles</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><a href="The_Pretenders_discography" title="The Pretenders discography">Discography</a></li>

<li><a href="List_of_The_Pretenders_band_members" class="mw-redirect" title="List of The Pretenders band members">Members</a></li>

<li><a href="John_McKenzie_(musician)" title="John McKenzie (musician)">John McKenzie</a></li></ul>

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<ul><li><b><a href="Buddy_Guy" title="Buddy Guy">Buddy Guy</a></b></li>

<ul><li><a href="Eddie_Levert" title="Eddie Levert">Eddie Levert</a>, Bobby Massey, <a href="William_Powell_(singer)" class="mw-redirect" title="William Powell (singer)">William Powell</a>, <a href="Sammy_Strain" title="Sammy Strain">Sammy Strain</a>, Walter Williams</li></ul></li>

<li><b><a href="The_Pretenders" title="The Pretenders">The Pretenders</a></b>

<ul><li>, <a href="Pete_Farndon" title="Pete Farndon">Pete Farndon</a>, <a href="James_Honeyman-Scott" title="James Honeyman-Scott">James Honeyman-Scott</a>, <a href="Chrissie_Hynde" title="Chrissie Hynde">Chrissie Hynde</a></li></ul></li>

<li><b><a href="Percy_Sledge" title="Percy Sledge">Percy Sledge</a></b></li>

<ul><li><a href="Bono" title="Bono">Bono</a>, <a href="Adam_Clayton" title="Adam Clayton">Adam Clayton</a>, <a href="The_Edge" title="The Edge">The Edge</a>, <a href="Larry_Mullen_Jr." title="Larry Mullen Jr.">Larry Mullen Jr.</a></li></ul></li></ul>

</div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Lifetime achievement</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em">

<ul><li><b><a href="Frank_Barsalona" title="Frank Barsalona">Frank Barsalona</a></b></li>

<li><b><a href="Seymour_Stein" title="Seymour Stein">Seymour Stein</a></b></li></ul>

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