Christine Perfect (album)
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Christine Perfect is the debut solo album
Solo album
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 of former Chicken Shack
Chicken Shack
Chicken Shack are a British blues band, founded in the mid-1960s by Stan Webb , Andy Silvester , and Alan Morley , who were later joined by Christine Perfect in 1968.-Career:...

 keyboardist
Keyboardist
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/singer Christine McVie
Christine McVie
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 née
NEE
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 Perfect.
The album was released just after Perfect had left Chicken Shack, but before she joined Fleetwood Mac
Fleetwood Mac
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. It contained the Etta James
Etta James
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 song, "I'd Rather Go Blind", which had earlier been a hit single for Chicken Shack.

Originally released in 1970, the album was re-released in 1976 as The Legendary Christine Perfect Album.

Track listing

Personnel

  • Christine Perfect - vocals
    Singing
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    , keyboards
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  • Top Topham
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     - guitar
    Guitar
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  • Richard Hayward - guitar
  • Danny Kirwan
    Danny Kirwan
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     - guitar on "When You Say"
  • Martin Dunsford - bass guitar
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  • John McVie
    John McVie
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     - bass guitar on "When You Say"
  • Andy Sylvester - bass guitar on "Close to Me"
  • Chris Harding - drums
    Drum kit
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  • John Bennett, Derek Wadsworth
    Derek Wadsworth
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    , Terry Noonan - arrangements

Later samples

  • "And That's Saying a Lot"
    • "Speed Law" by Mos Def
      Mos Def
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       from the album Black on Both Sides
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