The Great Pretenders
This website is the most complete story of The Great Pretenders, a lip-
sync group out of Belmont, Massachusetts.
From the early 1970’s through the mid-1980’s The Great Pretenders
were a Boston-based lip-sync act. They performed their fully
choreographed and costumed shows throughout the Boston and Cape
Cod areas, at New England colleges, and in Miami Beach, Florida,
breaking attendance records along the way.
But how did it begin?
One New Year’s Eve, as a joke, a group of friends from Belmont, MA put
together some dance steps to music from the early days of rock and
roll, added grease to their hair, and dressed in jeans and tee shirts to
look like typical teenagers from that time. They pantomimed the words
to the songs, and performed this “show” for their friends. Their friends
liked it so much they wanted to see it again and again. The rest is, as
they say, “history”.
