Get Close

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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
Learning to Crawl (1984) Get Close (1986) The Singles (1987)
Singles from Get Close
"Don't Get Me Wrong" Released: 22 September 1986[1] "Hymn to Her" Released: November 1986 "My Baby" Released: January 1987

Professional ratings

Review scores
Source	Rating
AllMusic	[2]
Chicago Tribune	[3]
Robert Christgau	B[5]
The Music Box	[4]
Rolling Stone	Unfavorable[6]
The Rolling Stone Album Guide	[7]

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.