The Chain (Tantric song)

"The Chain"
Song by Fleetwood Mac
from the album Rumours
Released	February 4, 1977
Recorded	1976
Genre	Rock
Length	4:28
Label	Warner Bros.
Songwriter(s)	Lindsey Buckingham Mick Fleetwood Christine McVie John McVie Stevie Nicks
Producer(s)	Fleetwood Mac Ken Caillat Richard Dashut
Rumours track listing
11 tracks  Side one "Second Hand News" "Dreams" "Never Going Back Again" "Don't Stop" "Go Your Own Way" "Songbird" Side two "The Chain" "You Make Loving Fun" "I Don't Want to Know" "Oh Daddy" "Gold Dust Woman"
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"The Chain"
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
Songwriter(s)	Lindsey Buckingham Mick Fleetwood Christine McVie John McVie Stevie Nicks
Tantric singles chronology
"Hey Now" (2003) "The Chain" (2004) "After We Go" (2004)
"Hey Now" (2003) "The Chain" (2004) "After We Go" (2004)

"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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