Tusk (song)

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"Tusk"

Single by Fleetwood Mac
from the album Tusk
B-side(s)	"Never Make Me Cry"
Released	1979
Format	7"single
Recorded	1978-9
Genre	Rock
Length	3:29
Label	Reprise
Writer(s)	Lindsey Buckingham
Producer(s)	Fleetwood Mac, Richard Dashut and Ken Caillat
Chart positions
#8 (Billboard Hot 100) #6 (UK)
Fleetwood Mac singles chronology
""You Make Loving Fun"" (1977)	"Tusk" (1979)	"Sara" (1979)

"Tusk" was a song by Fleetwood Mac from the 1979 double LP of the same name. The song reached #8 on the U.S. charts, #6 in the U.K. and #3 in Australia and Canada. It was based in part on a rehearsal riff the band used for sound-checks.

The drum-driven single was recorded live at Dodger Stadium (without an audience) in Los Angeles, California in collaboration with the University of Southern California Trojan Marching Band. The performance was also filmed for the song's music video. John McVie was in Tahiti during the Dodger Stadium recording, but he is represented in the video by a cardboard cutout carried around by Mick Fleetwood and later positioned in the stands with the other band members. ^[1]

The band's part would both set a record for the highest number of musicians performing on a single and earn the marching musicians a platinum disc. Lindsey Buckingham, Stevie Nicks and Mick Fleetwood presented it to the Trojan band on October 4, 1980 during a game at Dodger Stadium, this time in front of a huge crowd.^[2]

The song is played at USC Trojan football games with the fans chanting "U-C-L-A Sucks" at their cross-town rivals UCLA.