The Chain!

A premise stolen from the Radcliffe & Maconie show on BBC6 Music. Simply put the idea is to link songs to form a never ending chain of music.

We’ll start off with The Chain – Fleetwood Mac (fans of Formula 1 might want to skip to the last 90 seconds for some good air bass)



If you can find a link to another song, no matter how tenuous, please feel free to add to the list.
The link could be with a word in the song title, the band name, members of the band, the record label it was released on or absolutely any kind of connection that will lead to another track being added.

I’ll add the next one to get the ball rolling and because my explanation might not be very good.

Bicycles have chains so now we'll have

Bicycle Race - Queen


See? Simple really. The more obscure and convoluted the link the better.

Yes, I am prepared to fill this up all on my own.

Bicycles are a form of vehicular transport, as are boats...

Night Boat to Cairo - Madness



(Is that what you mean, Hugo?)

Spot on, Gilly.

Last time I checked boats sailed on rivers..

The River - Bruce Springsteen

You swim in a river ... Jim Morrison sings about swimming to the moon in this song .....

^ Mighty fine choice.

On film Jim was played by Val Kilmer, who was married to Joanne Whalley, who was in the Dennis Potter play 'The Singing Detective', which leads us to..

Elvis Costello - Watching The Detectives

Costello was my longest term dealers surname, he loved his work, examining buds by magnification etc' so...

Good linking.

Hills are for climbing or even running up!

Kate Bush - Running Up That Hill

kate Bush is not related to George Bush who may or may not be related to any of the deceased members of the Kennedy family

Cambodia used to be called Kampuchea. Another country whose name has changed is Zimbabwe which used to be called Rhodesia...

Japan - Rhodesia

Rhodesia was named after the founder of De Beers diamond company, the most famous diamond is the Pink Panther, panthers aren't an actual animal, it's from the Greek meaning 'all animals'...

Cool link.

Eric Burdon was the lead singer of The Animals and can be seen on the video below singing live with Otis Redding ( ) in 1966.

Otis Redding - Shake

Ray Charles - Night Time is the Right Time



Bloody hell!

Shock flash player not working so everything keeps going haywire - finally posted it, & the typed link's vanished!!!

Can't be bothered re-doing in full, so - Otis & Ray both from Georgia, the former famous for combining soul & gospel, the latter initially frowned on by many for combining gospel sounds with raunchiness!

Mighty fine choice, Gilly.

I could simply say from one blind fella to another, but instead I'll link from Ray to Stevie Wonder via the medium of heroin addiction.

Plus I get an excuse to play something from Innervisions. Get in.

Stevie Wonder - Too High

Stevie Wonder was so inspired by Bob Marley, that he penned Master Blaster as a tribute to him. That passionate admiration for Marley's talent was shared by Carlos Santana. Look what Santana said...

“Bob Marley was a champion liberator, because his songs liberate us from our own personal demons, and you thank God that you have ears and a heart to take it in. It’s so precious. Marley is supremely important for his divine message of one love, which is the equivalent of the message of Martin Luther King and John Coltrane’s ‘A Love Supreme.’ ‘One love’ means no popes, no pimps, no gurus, no swamis, no government, no church or anything like that. One love is all of us being spiritual enough to complement life. We all heal each other. We all mend a broken heart. We all lift up somebody who falls. Bob Marley shows the supreme balance of being so close to God and so human at the same time.”

So I'm just using Marley as a bridge (or, admittedly feeble excuse) to play some Santana really...

Carlos Santana - Oye Como Va

Around the age of 8, Santana "fell under the influence" of blues performers like B.B. King and John Lee Hooker.[11] He also credits Jimi Hendrix, Mike Bloomfield, Hank Marvin and Peter Green as important influences; he considered Bloomfield a direct mentor, writing of a key meeting with Bloomfield in San Francisco in the foreword he wrote to a biography of Bloomfield, Michael Bloomfield: If You Love These Blues-An Oral History in 2000.[12]

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos_Santana

Jimi made it into the Rock n Roll Hall of Fame in 1992, the same year as The Man In Black (no, not Will Smith).

Johnny Cash - A Boy Named Sue

"A Boy Named Sue" isn't exactly a "Mannish Boy" .....

"Mannish Boy" is a blues standard by Muddy Waters first recorded in 1955. It is both an arrangement of and an "answer song" to Bo Diddley's "I'm a Man", which was in turn inspired by Waters' and Willie Dixon's "Hoochie Coochie Man".[2] "Mannish Boy" features a repeating stop-time figure on one chord throughout the song and is credited to Waters, Mel London, and Bo Diddley.

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mannish_Boy

Something described as muddy could also be called dirty.

The Pogues - Dirty Old Town



Sing along now.

I think Salford was the dirty old town of the title (probably Oioi will correct me if I'm mistaken), which is where the Buzzcocks are from.

Buzzcocks - Orgasm Addict