The guest list on Chrissie Hynde’s latest album Duets Special is testament to the high esteem she’s still held in: Debbie Harry, Brandon Flowers, kd lang and Dave Gahan among the big names queueing up to duet with her. To mark its recent release, she’ll be joining us to answer your questions.

After leaving the US midwest and striking out for London in the mid-1970s – where she worked for the NME and Vivienne Westwood’s shop Sex – she shuttled between punk bands and couldn’t get anything off the ground until she formed the Pretenders in 1978.

With the No 1 hit Brass in Pocket among their earliest singles, their career trajectory was near-vertical, and as the 80s continued, the lineup shifted but always with Hynde out front, her insouciant style making her a defining frontperson of the era. Hits mounted up – I Go To Sleep, 2000 Miles – and the band released one of the biggest power ballads of the 90s, I’ll Stand By You. They’ve eventually released 12 studio albums, with the latest, 2023’s Relentless, giving them their highest chart placing since the mid-1990s.

Along the way, Hynde has been a brilliant vocal foil in a series of collaborations: her cover of I Got You Babe with UB40 was a UK chart-topper, while Frank Sinatra, Cher and INXS’s Michael Hutchence have been some of her other vocal partners. There are 13 more duets on the new album as Chrissie Hynde & Pals, with Lucinda Williams, Shirley Manson, Alan Sparhawk and Cat Power among the other names.

Hynde will answer your questions on that star-studded project and anything else in her long career. Post them in the comments below before 10am GMT on Monday 8 December, and we’ll publish her answers in the Friday 12 December edition of the Film & Music section, as well as online.