Got a Hold on Me

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"Got a Hold on Me"
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Single by Christine McVie
from the album Christine McVie
B-side "Who's Dreaming This Dream"
ReleasedJanuary 1984
Recorded1983
Length3:52
Label Warner Bros.
Songwriter(s) Christine McVie, Todd Sharp
Producer(s) Russ Titelman
Christine McVie singles chronology
"When You Say"
(1969)
"Got a Hold on Me"
(1984)
"Love Will Show Us How"
(1984)
Audio
"Got a Hold on Me" on YouTube

"Got a Hold on Me" is a song by Christine McVie, released as the lead single from her eponymous second solo album in 1984.

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The song reached number 10 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, and topped the Billboard Adult Contemporary and Rock Tracks charts for four and two weeks, respectively. [1] The song was McVie's only top 10 solo hit in the United States.

Synthesizers on the track were played by Steve Winwood, [1] while the guitars were played by Todd Sharp (the song's co-writer) and McVie's Fleetwood Mac bandmate Lindsey Buckingham. [2] Sharp recalled that he wrote the song with McVie section by section over the course of thirty minutes and had identified the song's commercial viability upon hearing the first verse. [3] McVie stated that the song's subject matter was fictional, saying that "at the time I wrote it, no one did have a hold on me." [4]

The video for the song was produced by Jon Roseman and directed by Mike Brady. [5] 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. [6]

Personnel

Charts

See also

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