“Chicken Payback” by The Bees

"Chicken Payback" comes from Free the Bees, the British band's second album and their first for Virgin, released in 2004; it went out as a single the following April and reached number 28 in the UK. By then the Bees had grown into a six-piece on the road behind their debut, Sunshine Hit Me, and the writing credit here is split six ways, among Paul Butler, Kris Birkin, Michael Clevitt, Aaron Fletcher, Warren Hampshire and Tim Parkin.

Butler produced it. The plan had been to make the album in his shed, where the debut was done, but the band moved the sessions to Abbey Road instead and came out with a slicker, faster-paced sound than their first record.

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