The Chain - wikipedia The Chain For the 1984 comedy, see The Chain ( film ). `` The Chain '' Song by Fleetwood Mac from the album Rumours Released February 4, 1977 Recorded 1976 Genre Rock psychedelic 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 '' `` Do n't Stop '' `` Go Your Own Way '' `` Songbird '' Side two `` The Chain '' `` You Make Loving Fun '' `` I Do n't Want to Know '' `` Oh Daddy '' `` Gold Dust Woman '' Audio sample file help `` 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. Contents 1 Background 2 Release and reception 3 Personnel 4 Tantric version 4.1 Charts 5 Cover versions 6 Other media 7 References 8 External links Background 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. Due to the spliced nature of the record ( the drums and guitar were the only instruments actually recorded in each other 's company ) and its sporadic composition and assembly from different rejected songs, `` The Chain '' is one of only a few Fleetwood Mac songs whose authorship is credited to all members of the band at the time. The finished song itself has a basic rock structure, although it has two distinct portions : the main verse and chorus, and the outro. The song shows influences of hard rock, folk, and country, using a dobro to play the guitar riff. Release and reception Rumours garnered widespread critical acclaim upon its release. Subsequent analysis of `` The Chain '' has also led many to cite it as one of the most evocative expressions of the internal fracture between various band members at the time. Buckingham and Nicks were ending their relationship at the same time that John and Christine McVie 's marriage broke down, as did that of Fleetwood and his wife Jenny Boyd. In 1997, Fleetwood Mac released a live concert CD / DVD package called The Dance, which featured the reunion of the Rumours - era Fleetwood Mac members. The rendition of `` The Chain '' reached number 30 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock Tracks chart. It has also appeared on The Very Best of Fleetwood Mac and 25 Years - The Chain. Chart ( `` The Dance '' Version ) Peak position US Mainstream Rock Singles 30 Canadian Singles Chart 51 Chart ( 2011 ) Peak position UK Singles Chart 81 Region Certification United Kingdom ( BPI ) Gold Personnel Lindsey Buckingham -- electric guitars, Dobro, lead vocals Stevie Nicks -- lead and harmony vocals Christine McVie -- Harmonium, Hammond organ, harmony vocals John McVie -- fretless bass guitar Mick Fleetwood -- drums, tambourine Tantric version `` 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 song was recorded by the American rock band Tantric, released as the second single off their 2004 second album After We Go. Though being released as a single the song lacked much promotion, debuting at number 36 on the US Mainstream Rock chart. Tantric 's cover of the song was used as the theme song for the HBO Documentary series Family Bonds. Charts Chart ( 2004 ) Peak position US Billboard Mainstream Rock 36 Cover versions There have been numerous covers of `` The Chain ''. 1980s rock band Shark Island included a cover on their 1989 album Law of the Order, notable for not including the famous bass solo in the song. Canadian heavy metal band Kick Axe performed a cover of `` The Chain '' on Rock the World, their third studio album, released in 1986. The song was recorded by the American rock band Tantric, released as the second single off their 2004 second album After We Go. In 2009, Three Days Grace originally recorded `` The Chain '' for their album Transit of Venus but was one of the few not put on the record. However, it was put on their Lost in You EP. The hard rock band Taking Dawn also performed a cover of `` The Chain '' on their 2010 debut album titled Time to Burn. This song was sampled by rap artists Bone Thugs - n - Harmony in the song `` Wind Blow '' off their album Strength and Loyalty, and rapper Project Pat used the bass line in the last section of the song on his song `` Do n't Save Her '' off his album Mista Do n't Play. It was also sampled in Sway DaSafo 's debut single titled `` Up Your Speed ''. Brandi Carlile covered `` The Chain '' for Sweetheart 2014, a Valentine 's Day themed album sold at Starbucks stores and online. Other media The ending of `` The Chain '' The ending as used by the BBC 's Formula 1 coverage and other media outlets Problems playing this file ? See media help. The BBC 's Formula One coverage used the ending bass line as a theme tune from 1978 until the BBC 's loss of TV rights to ITV Sport in 1997, thus making the song highly recognisable in the United Kingdom. On 29 March 2009 the song re-entered the UK Chart at # 94 through downloads, following confirmation from the BBC that it would be reintroduced, the BBC having regained broadcasting rights from ITV. On 20 March 2011, `` The Chain '' peaked higher at # 81 in the UK chart following a campaign on Facebook to try to get the song to number 1 for the start of the 2011 Formula One season. By November 2014, the song had been certified Silver by the British Phonographic Industry based on download sales alone, making it one of Fleetwood Mac 's most successful songs in the UK. Mark Radcliffe and Stuart Maconie have a feature on their BBC Radio show called The Chain which is a list of songs, each track having something in common with the one before it, beginning with `` The Chain '' and introduced each time with the bassline from the song. Marvel Studios utilized `` The Chain '' in two trailers for Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2, including one that aired during Super Bowl LI. It is heard twice in the film itself, and appears in the movie 's soundtrack, Awesome Mix Vol. 2. The song is also featured in a scene of the 2017 biographical film about Tonya Harding, I, Tonya and appears on the soundtrack. References ^ Jump up to : Carroll, Cath ( 2004 ). Never Break the Chain : Fleetwood Mac and the Making of Rumours. Vinyl Frontier. pp. 134 -- 136. ISBN 1556525451. ^ Jump up to : `` BBC Formula One coverage to bring back Fleetwood Mac 's ' The Chain ' ''. Daily Telegraph. 24 February 2009. Retrieved 19 March 2011. Jump up ^ Klein, Jamie ( 12 February 2016 ). `` Channel 4 to keep ' The Chain ' as F1 theme song ''. Motorsport.com. Retrieved 12 February 2016. Jump up ^ Garbarini, Vic ( March 1998 ). `` Interview with Lindsey Buckingham ''. Guitar World. Retrieved 21 July 2011. Jump up ^ `` British single certifications -- Fleetwood Mac -- Everywhere ''. British Phonographic Industry. Enter Everywhere in the search field and then press Enter. Jump up ^ Zahlaway, Jon Tantric takes another swing on U.S. club circuit Archived 2009 - 03 - 25 at the Wayback Machine. LiveDaily.com ( August 26, 2004 ). Retrieved March 22, 2008. Jump up ^ `` BBC unveils 2009 F1 coverage -- and return of The Chain ''. crash.net. 2009 - 02 - 24. Retrieved 2009 - 02 - 24. Jump up ^ Wilkening, Matthew. `` Fleetwood Mac 's ' The Chain ' Gets an Even Bigger Spotlight in New ' Guardians of the Galaxy ' Trailer ''. Ultimate Classic Rock. Retrieved March 1, 2017. Jump up ^ Hiatt, Brian. `` Inside the ' Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 ' Soundtrack ''. Rolling Stone. Retrieved April 22, 2017. Caillat, Ken ( 2012 ). Making Rumours : The Inside Story of the Classic Fleetwood Mac Album. John Wiley & Sons. ISBN 1118218086. External links Lyrics of this song at MetroLyrics Listen to `` The Chain '' on YouTube Fleetwood Mac Mick Fleetwood John McVie Christine McVie Lindsey Buckingham Stevie Nicks Peter Green Jeremy Spencer Bob Brunning Danny Kirwan Bob Welch Bob Weston Dave Walker Billy Burnette Rick Vito Bekka Bramlett Dave Mason Studio albums Fleetwood Mac Mr. Wonderful Then Play On Kiln House Future Games Bare Trees Penguin Mystery to Me Heroes Are Hard to Find Fleetwood Mac Rumours Tusk Mirage Tango in the Night Behind the Mask Time Say You Will EPs Extended Play Compilations English Rose The Pious Bird of Good Omen Fleetwood Mac in Chicago Black Magic Woman The Original Fleetwood Mac Greatest Hits Vintage Years Greatest Hits 25 Years -- The Chain Madison Blues The Vaudeville Years The Complete Blue Horizon Sessions 1967 -- 1969 Show - Biz Blues The Best of Peter Green 's Fleetwood Mac The Very Best of Fleetwood Mac The Essential Fleetwood Mac Live albums Live Live in Boston Live at the BBC The Dance Shrine ' 69 Live in Boston Tribute albums Just Tell Me That You Want Me : A Tribute to Fleetwood Mac 1960s songs `` I Believe My Time Ai n't Long '' `` Hellhound on My Trail '' `` Shake Your Moneymaker '' `` Stop Messin ' Around '' `` Need Your Love So Bad '' `` Madison Blues '' `` Great Balls of Fire '' `` Black Magic Woman '' `` Albatross '' `` When You Say '' `` Man of the World '' `` Somebody 's Gonna Get Their Head Kicked in Tonite '' `` Rattlesnake Shake '' `` Oh Well '' 1970s songs `` The Green Manalishi ( With the Two Prong Crown ) '' `` Dragonfly '' `` Jewel - Eyed Judy '' `` Sentimental Lady '' `` For Your Love '' `` Hypnotized '' `` Angel '' `` Monday Morning '' `` Warm Ways '' `` Blue Letter '' `` Over My Head '' `` Say You Love Me '' `` Rhiannon '' `` Landslide '' `` World Turning '' `` I 'm So Afraid '' `` Second Hand News '' `` Dreams '' `` Never Going Back Again '' `` Do n't Stop '' `` Go Your Own Way '' `` Songbird '' `` The Chain '' `` You Make Loving Fun '' `` I Do n't Want to Know '' `` Oh Daddy '' `` Gold Dust Woman '' `` Silver Springs '' `` Tusk '' `` Sara '' `` Think About Me '' `` Not That Funny '' `` Sisters of the Moon '' `` Walk a Thin Line '' `` Angel '' `` I Know I 'm Not Wrong '' `` Brown Eyes '' 1980s songs `` Hold Me '' `` Gypsy '' `` Oh Diane '' `` Love in Store '' `` Ca n't Go Back '' `` Big Love '' `` Seven Wonders '' `` Little Lies '' `` Everywhere '' `` Family Man '' `` Tango in the Night '' `` Is n't It Midnight '' `` As Long as You Follow '' `` No Questions Asked '' 1990s -- 2010s songs `` Skies the Limit '' `` In the Back of My Mind '' `` Love Is Dangerous '' `` Save Me '' `` Love Shines '' `` Paper Doll '' `` I Do '' `` Temporary One '' `` Murrow Turning Over in His Grave '' `` Peacekeeper '' `` Say You Will '' `` Sad Angel '' Concert tours Heroes Are Hard to Find Tour Fleetwood Mac Tour Rumours Tour Tusk Tour Mirage Tour Shake the Cage Tour Behind the Mask Tour Say You Will Tour Unleashed Fleetwood Mac Live On with the Show Related people Ken Caillat Richard Dashut Clifford Davis John Mayall Keith Olsen Related articles Discography List of Fleetwood Mac band members Buckingham Nicks Lindsey Buckingham Christine McVie Bekka & Billy Stretch ( `` Bogus Fleetwood Mac '' ) `` Rumours '' ( Glee episode ) Book Tantric Hugo Ferreira Scott Wilson T.J. 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