The Chain
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| Song by Fleetwood Mac from the album Rumours | |||||||||||||||||||
| Released | February 4, 1977 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Recorded | 1976 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Genre | Country rock, psychedelic rock | ||||||||||||||||||
| Length | 4:28 | ||||||||||||||||||
| Label | Warner Bros. | ||||||||||||||||||
| Writer(s) |
Lindsey Buckingham Mick Fleetwood Christine McVie John McVie Stevie Nicks |
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| Producer(s) | Fleetwood Mac, Ken Caillat & Richard Dashut | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Single by Tantric | ||||
| from the album After We Go | ||||
| Released | Winter 2004 | |||
| Format | CD | |||
| Genre | Post-grunge, hard rock, alternative rock | |||
| Length | 4:21 | |||
| Label | Maverick Records | |||
| Writer(s) |
Lindsey Buckingham Mick Fleetwood Christine McVie John McVie Stevie Nicks |
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"The Chain" is a song by the British-American rock band Fleetwood Mac, released on their best-selling album Rumours. It is the only song from the album credited to all five members (Stevie Nicks, Lindsey Buckingham, Christine McVie, John McVie, and Mick Fleetwood); "The Chain" was created from combinations of several previously rejected materials, including solo work by Buckingham, Nicks and Christine McVie. It was assembled, often manually by splicing tapes with a razor blade, at the Record Plant in Sausalito, California, with hired engineers Ken Caillat and Richard Dashut. Following the critical and commercial success of Rumours, "The Chain" has been featured on The Dance, a 1997 live concert CD/DVD package, as well as several greatest hits compilations. It has attained particular fame in the United Kingdom, where the instrumental section is used as the theme tune for the BBC and Channel 4's television coverage of Formula One.
According to interviews on the writing of Rumours, the final section of "The Chain"—beginning with a bass progression—was created by John McVie and Mick Fleetwood. Stevie Nicks had written the lyrics separately and thought they would be a good match; she and Christine McVie did some reworking to create the first section of the tune. Other elements were worked in from an early project of Christine's called "Keep Me There". The blues-style piano motif was removed, and the remainder combined with a bridge from yet another piece manually using a razor blade to cut and splice the tapes. To complete the song, Buckingham recycled the intro from an earlier song from a duet with Nicks, "Lola (My Love)", originally released on their self-titled 1973 album.
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