Fleetwood Mac's "Rumours" album gave way to some of the band's biggest hits in rock history, but not all tracks made it to the charts. "The Chain" became a standout track that cemented itself as legendary since its release in 1977.
Every die-hard fan knows that Fleetwood Mac's album was created during serious tension among the members, from deteriorating relationships, divorce, and even affairs. Unlike other tracks in their library, "The Chain" is tagged as the only song credited to the entire band.
While songs like "Go Your Own Way" and "Dreams" dominated the charts, "The Chain" never did. The original track was never released as a single and never entered the Billboard Hot 100, unlike its predecessors. It was not until 1997 that a live version of the song entered No.30 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks chart.
Believe it or not, the fan-favorite classic was actually created using rejected material from Stevie Nicks, Lindsey Buckingham, and John McVie. It was originally a Christine McVie song, titled "Keep Me There." Reports claim that they manually splice tapes using a razor blade during the track's creation.
Throughout the creation of "Rumours," the track was set aside and almost didn't make it into the album. The band revisited the song and decided to work in already established parts, such as lyrics Nicks had written for an entirely different song about the breakup of her relationship with Buckingham.
"Originally we had no words to it. And it really only became a song when Stevie wrote some. She walked in one day and said, 'I've written some words that might be good for that thing you were doing in the studio the other day.' So it was put together," said Mick Fleetwood, according to SongFacts.
Buckingham would then recycle an intro from an earlier song, a duet with Nicks titled "Lola (My Love)." Fleetwood detailed how Buckingham was the one who arranged and put the pieces together onto tape before it was recorded. While Nicks has previously taken credit for writing a majority of the song, Buckingham and Fleetwood called it a band effort.
"But it ultimately becomes a band thing anyway, because we all have so much of our own individual style, our own stamp that makes the sound of Fleetwood Mac. So it's not like you feel disconnected from the fact that maybe you haven't written one of the songs. Because what you do, and what you feel when we're all making music together, is what Fleetwood Mac ends up being, and that's the stuff you hear on the albums. Whether one likes it or not, this is, after all, a combined effort from different people playing music together," he said.
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