WCSX Classic Cuts : The Chain
WCSX Classic Cuts
Fleetwood Mac: “The Chain”
The Hook: The only song credited to every member of the most popular version of Fleetwood Mac had to be recorded twice.
Years: 1977 (studio) and 1997 (live)
Albums: Rumours (studio) and The Dance (live)
Writers: Lindsey Buckingham, Mick Fleetwood, Christine McVie, John McVie and Stevie Nicks
Stats: Not released as a single off Rumours, 20 years later a live version charted at number-30 on Billboard’s Mainstream Rock Tracks chart.
Background: “The Chain,” off Rumours, is the only song on which every member of Fleetwood Mac’s most popular lineup was given a songwriting credit. Singer and guitarist Lindsey Buckingham shares his thoughts on it.
Lindsey Buckingham on the only song on which every member of Fleetwood Mac got a songwriting credit, “The Chain.” OC:…everybody contributed. :21
“The only thing I remember about that is we had a great take of that in Sausalito when we were recording it and one of those little 3M machines ate it and we had to do it again [Laughs]. There’s not a lot to say about that, that was a good stage song. It certainly was a good cross-pollination of Stevie’s lyric and there was something that everybody contributed.”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MDhqi84bTYY
