{"id":15,"date":"2003-02-26T17:25:12","date_gmt":"2003-02-26T15:25:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ewanspence.com\/blog\/2003\/02\/26\/the-chain-of-horror\/"},"modified":"2003-02-26T17:25:12","modified_gmt":"2003-02-26T15:25:12","slug":"the-chain-of-horror","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/2003\/02\/the-chain-of-horror\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;The Chain&#8221; of Horror"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Right this just isn&#8217;t on. ITV have said they&#8217;re replacing the music for Forumla 1 for the third time in 5 years. Thee brand new, invigoriating theme is &#8220;You Ain&#8217;t Seen Nothin&#8217; Yet.&#8221;<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\nNow correct me if I&#8217;m wrong, but that&#8217;s the Smashy and Nicey music by Bachman Turner Overdrive.<\/p>\n<p>I wish ITV would admit they&#8217;ve got it all wrong, and that there is only <b>one<\/b> piece of music that the public in the UK associate with Formula 1, and that&#8217;s The Chain by Fleetwood Mac.<\/p>\n<p>No matter where you are, whenver you hear the opening Bass guitar on that track, you know it&#8217;s time for some real racing. ITV knew they had to carry over Murray (and let&#8217;s not get starterd on James &#8220;Are you ready, are you ready, are you ready!!!&#8221; Allen&#8217;s commentating) when they stole F1 from the BBC, but trying to tie up an old 70&#8217;s Rock Tune that&#8217;s already deeply associated with something other than racing defeats the point.<\/p>\n<p>We want The Chain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mick Fleetwood looses out to Mike Smash and Dave Nice<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-formula-1"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p58Gl0-f","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewanspence.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}