"Chance" is the third single by Act, taken from the only Act album ''

Laughter, Tears and Rage ''Laughter, Tears and Rage'' was the sole album produced by Act - the short musical collaboration between Thomas Leer and ex-Propaganda vocalist Claudia Brücken. Originally scheduled to be titled ''Name Dropping: Songs for Young Sinners'' it wa ...

''. The single was released by

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in February 1988 but was quickly withdrawn. This may have something to do with the 12" mix containing an unauthorised sample of

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". ZTT promptly released the band's fourth single " I Can't Escape from You" a month later. The non-abum B-side "Winner 88" includes in lyrics the lines "

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" and "

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" – both big ABBA hits. The album ''Laughter, Tears and Rage'' was reissued in 2004 as an expanded 3-CD box set, containing practically everything the group released plus a wealth of previously unreleased tracks or versions, but the 12" mix of "Chance" (titled "12/1 Chance") with ABBA samples isn't included. Instead, a completely new remix titled 'Throbbin' Mix' appears, along with the standard album and 7" mixes, and the alternate "(We Give You Another) Chance". "Winner 88" appears in two versions in the box set, 'Extended' (originally titled "Winner 88x") and the previously unreleased 'Instrumental'. The original 7" isn't included per se, although it is included in the 'Extended' version - the two versions are the same, except 'Extended' adds a lengthy instrumental coda. Another new remix of "Chance" titled 'Full Whammy!' appeared on the 2015 Act compilation "Love & Hate - A Compact Introduction To Act" (which contains a 'Director's Cut' version of the ''Laughter, Tears and Rage'' album on disc 1), along with the original 7" version of "Winner 88". The track opens with a sample of

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's dialogue from the 1985 film ''

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''.

Track listing

All songs written and composed by

Thomas Leer Thomas Leer (born Thomas Wishart, 1953, Port Glasgow, Scotland) is a Scottish musician. He has released a number of albums and singles as a solo artist, and was also one half (the other being Claudia Brücken) of the 1980s electropop band Act (ba ...

and

Claudia Brücken Claudia Brücken (born 7 December 1963) is a German singer and songwriter. She is best known as the lead vocalist of the synth-pop band Propaganda. In 1996, Brücken started working with Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark co-founder Paul Humphrey ...

7" vinyl

* UK: ZTT / BET1

12" vinyl

* UK: ZTT / BETT1 {{DEFAULTSORT:Chance 1987 songs 1988 singles Act (band) songs Song recordings produced by Trevor Horn Song recordings produced by Stephen Lipson ZTT Records singles