Lindsey Buckingham - Trouble (Extended Edit)

"Trouble" is the debut solo single by Lindsey Buckingham, released in 1981 from his debut solo album Law and Order. The single was Buckingham's first hit as a solo artist, peaking at number nine in the US and number 31 in the UK, where it remained charted for seven weeks. In Australia, it topped the chart for three weeks and became the eighth biggest-selling single of 1982. It experienced similar levels of success in South Africa, reaching number one for two weeks and finishing 1982 as the country's 13th best-selling single.

"Trouble" was the only track on Law and Order on which Buckingham played neither bass or drums. Buckingham approached "Trouble" differently from his other songs, wanting the song to have more of a "live feel" and recruited his Fleetwood Mac bandmate, Mick Fleetwood, to play drums. However, Buckingham believed none of the takes were satisfactory from start to finish, so a taped loop of the drum track (about four seconds long) was used throughout the song: "The irony of that was that the original reason for having Mick play on the song was to approach the track completely live, as opposed to my usual technique." Buckingham later overdubbed some additional drum fills and cymbal crashes in addition to other percussion instruments to create the illusion of live drums.

George Hawkins, who had worked with Fleetwood on The Visitor earlier that year, was brought in to play bass guitar. Buckingham recorded some half-speed guitars for the choruses along with a Spanish influenced guitar solo, the latter of which he was particularly proud of. Some of Buckingham's vocals for the song are sung in falsetto.

Record World called the song an "out-of-the box" smash with a sound that was "simply dazzling.


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