"Got a Hold on Me" is a 1984 song from
Fleetwood Mac
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's former keyboardist and vocalist
Christine McVie. It was the first single released off her
second solo album.
The song rose to #10 on the
''Billboard'' Hot 100 chart, and it topped the ''
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''
Adult Contemporary and
Rock Tracks charts for four and two weeks, respectively.
[ Whitburn, Joel (2004). ''The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits'', 8th Edition (Billboard Publications), page 416.] This was McVie's only top 10 solo hit in the United States.
Synthesizers on the track were played by
Steve Winwood
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,
while the guitars were played by
Todd Sharp (the song's co-writer) and McVie's Fleetwood Mac bandmate
Lindsey Buckingham. The other musicians were bassist George Hawkins and drummer-percussionist
Steve Ferrone
Steve Ferrone (born 25 April 1950) is an English drummer. He is known as a member of the rock band Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers from 1994 to 2017, replacing original drummer Stan Lynch, and as part of the "classic lineup" of the Average Whi ...
. ''Got a Hold on Me'' was released as the lead
single from McVie's
self-titled 1984 solo album.
The video for the song was produced and directed by Jon Roseman and premiered in February 1984. Shot in both black-and-white and color, it is a pseudo-performance video showing Christine McVie in a mansion-like room singing at her piano while a backup band appears in silhouette shadows on the walls around her.
Personnel
* Christine McVie – lead and backing vocals, keyboards, percussion
*
Steve Winwood
Stephen Lawrence Winwood (born 12 May 1948) is an English musician, singer, and songwriter whose genres include blue-eyed soul, rhythm and blues, blues rock, and pop rock. Though primarily a keyboard player and vocalist prominent for his disti ...
– synthesizers
*
Lindsey Buckingham – guitar
*
Todd Sharp – guitar, backing vocals
* George Hawkins – bass, backing vocals
*
Steve Ferrone
Steve Ferrone (born 25 April 1950) is an English drummer. He is known as a member of the rock band Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers from 1994 to 2017, replacing original drummer Stan Lynch, and as part of the "classic lineup" of the Average Whi ...
– drums, percussion
Charts
Weekly charts
Year-end charts
See also
*
List of number-one adult contemporary singles of 1984 (U.S.)
*
List of Billboard Mainstream Rock number-one songs of the 1980s
References
1984 songs
1984 singles
Songs written by Christine McVie
Warner Records singles
Song recordings produced by Russ Titelman
Christine_McVie songs
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