Chords for Behind The Vinyl: "On The Loose" with Michael Sadler from Saga

Let's have a listen to this.
_ _ _ This will be on [A] the loose.
_ _ [G] Worlds apart, Farmyard Studios.
Ages ago.
_ Let's bring back some memories.
The photos aren't in there, [F] but that's John.
Everybody always wants to know who that is.
That's John.
He's just some guy that they found.
And that was actually shot, [G] I think, in a little [F] village near the studio.
They [C] put the fogging out, which you can see our legs are standing there.
He was just some dude.
He said, would you like [C] to have your photo taken?
We'll give you five [F] quid or something like that.
And he posed for the photo.
_ _ [Eb] Hearing this song reminds me of the time when,
again, [F] Rupert and Steve just had a way of thinking outside [Eb] the box
and they knew what they wanted.
Not always [F] how to achieve it, but they would try different things.
And again, when it came to the vocal of On [Eb] the Loose,
they [G] wanted a sense of angst,
a sense of impending doom or [Eb]
danger, I guess,
a lot of a better expression.
[F] So, with the studio being an old barn,
you still [C] had the cross beams all across the length of the building.
[F] And I walked into the studio one day
[C] _
[Gb] and I looked out in the live room,
because I knew [F] we were going to do On the Loose that day.
And I walked in and I was going to do a vocal.
And where the vocal mic usually is, it wasn't.
And I said, where's the mic?
He said, it's up there.
I said, [G] where?
And I looked up and they had jury-rigged a microphone [Eb] stand
up on one of the beams.
And [G] of course there was a ladder next to it.
And the [F] idea was that I was supposed to go climb the [Eb] ladder,
sit up on the cross beam and sing the entire [F] song from up there,
which is about 35 feet in the air.
So I did.
[F] And there's a picture of it on the sleeve, actually,
of me sitting up there and just balancing myself,
you know, no ropes or anything, [G] tie-offs.
And it gave a kind of sense of urgency to the [Eb] track,
so that's what they were looking for.
I [G] remember there was another time with,
it wasn't on this song, but it was on the song Catwalk
from Hazard [Eb] Tales, sorry, the Switch albums,
but [Gb] they had me in Trafalgar Square on the outside of [F] a building,
basically hanging [G] off the edge and [Eb] no [G] ropes, nothing,
just [E] standing there on the ledge about this [Eb] wide.
And I remember a bunch of guys in the square underneath [Cm] saying,
do it, [G] mate, jump, do it!
They just thought I was about to commit suicide.
[D] But again, working with those [C] guys, it was like anything goes.
Whatever it took to achieve [Eb] a certain sound, they knew how to get it.
They wouldn't rest until they got [C] exactly what they wanted.
On the [Gm] Loose was one of those tracks, and they got what they wanted.
[G] I was afraid, afraid for my [D] life.
_ [C] _
_ [F] Brings back memories.
_ _ And this [C] song, actually, it wasn't called [F] On the Loose originally.
I can't remember what the working title was,
but I went through about 47 different lyrics for the chorus.
What happened was the manager came in one night,
we were listening to the track, and he said,
if you get this right, this could be a massive single.
And we're going, [Eb] okay.
As you usually do, react to your manager's advice.
[F] Okay, whatever you say.
But it turned out to be [Eb] right.
But I remember we brainstormed the lyric for On the Loose.
[F] Everybody got involved.
I had the verses all done, [Eb] but the chorus wasn't quite right.
[F] And we finally came up with On the Loose.
And it's like, that's the one.
[Cm] So after, like I [F] said, about 47 rewrites, we finally got On the Loose.
And I guess he was right.
Thank you, [Cm] Clyde, if you're [Eb] watching this.
Yeah.
[G] [F] Been On the Loose ever since.
That's that.
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