BIG COUNTRY, "CHANCE" from Hold Tight, 1983

Big Country and the classic "Chance" from 1983. Rare recording, different to album and single.

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Music

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• big
• country
• stuart
• adamson
• mark
• brzezicki
• tony
• butler
• bruce
• watson
• scotland
• rock
• celtic

[IqbalHamid]

Best performance of this classic ever. Better than the official vid. Been looking for this for years. Thanks for posting bc100stars.

[BC1000stars]

Yeah, it is a great performance and clip, really pleased you found it :-) Thanks for commenting!

[357daedalus]

most 1 hit wonders should be 1 hit wonders, but this band had so much more to offer. damn shame they didn't make it big in my opinion. i miss them

[cedar30]

sounds corny but many years ago i drove around the highlands of scotland with big country on the stereo - magical even the scooterboys on their way to fort william had it playing on the stereos fitted to their scooters (as was the fashion then)

i am english but felt the surge of pride you scots must get from hearing this RIP stuart

[SpartanPict]

The whole English/Scottish thing is absurd. We have the same blood, almost the same cultures, connected histories and the same language. Folk music up and down the whole of Britain holds much of a likeness.

BIG COUNTRY - very much a BRITISH band.

[TheAmericanbornscot]

@versioncity1 born in england his parents were scottish and he was raised there too though.

so...born in england?...yes................­...english?.......not in a million years though born there

RIP Stuart

[QualityTimeChannel]

@versioncity1, yes he was born in England, but his parents were Scottish. They moved to England, had him there, and then moved back to Scotland when he was only 4. Scottish roots, blood and mostly raised there. So for all intents and purpose, Stuart was Scottish. More importantly, he considered himself Scottish before anything else, which matters far more than what any one of us opines.

[TalkToTheBody]

@TheGazzernator wrong Bruce is Canadian

[rastafarievers]

i too love this performance and remember it well. suited the song and bend perfectly

[robkatschmaryk]

@versioncity1 .......from Wikipedia......"Although Stuart Adamson was born in Manchester, both his parents were Scottish, and the family returned to Scotland when he was four. The family settled in a small mining town, Crossgates, about a mile to the east of Dunfermline in Fife". Thanks so much for posting this song, fantastic songwriting, I never saw them play, but was at Uni in 1983, the haunting melodies of Big Country will always have a special place in my heart, rest in peace Stuart.

[versioncity1]

stuart was actually english, in fact none of them were scottish....

[andrewjcraig]

@TheGazzernator Bruce was born in Canada (in Timmins, Ontario -- the same town as Shania Twain!)

[tyeistops]

One of my earliest memories of this great band! Thanx!

[LexingtonAvehull]

God Bless Stuart (Lead Singer) Died in 2001 hung himself! voted by Jon Peel as one of the best guitarist in Scotland!!

was voted Scotland & the UK's answer to ?Hendrix! one of the best guitarist of all time! RIP stu!!!