Chance (Act song)

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“Chance”

UK 12" sleeve

Single by Act
from the album Laughter, Tears and Rage

A-side

"Chance"

B-side

"Winner 88"

Released

February 1988

Format

7", 12"

Recorded

1987

Genre

Synth Pop

Length

4:17

ZTT - BET 1

Trevor Horn, Act, Stephen Lipson

Act singles chronology

"Absolutely Immune"
(1987)

Chance
(1988)

"I Can't Escape From You"
(1988)

"Chance" is the third single by ZTT recording artists Act. It was released by ZTT Records in February 1988 (1988-02), but was quickly withdrawn. This may have something to do with the 12" mix containing an unauthorised sample of ABBA's "Take A Chance On Me".

ZTT promptly released the band's fourth single "I Can't Escape From You" a month later.

Two mixes (the full-length 12" version and an instrumental mix) of b-side "Winner 88" were eventually released on the band's 2004 box set Laughter, Tears and Rage - The Anthology. This also contained a previously unreleased remix of "Chance" itself, as well as the standard album and single mixes (but not the withdrawn version containing the Abba sample).