In most instances, John McVie had no problem coming up with bass parts for Fleetwood Mac songs. The iconic riff in " The Chain ," for example, was all his doing.

"I butted heads [with] Lindsey [Buckingham] a couple times, because he had very fixed ideas," McVie said in a 1995 interview with Bass Player . "I would say, 'Look, this is how I feel it.' He was really the only one to do that, though."

McVie was listed as one of the songwriters for "The Chain," but composing a bass line does not always or automatically earn one a songwriting credit. Most of Fleetwood Mac's songs were written by the primary three songwriters: Buckingham, Stevie Nicks and Christine McVie .

However, John McVie managed to collect 10 songwriting credits in the time Fleetwood Mac was together. Sure,

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