S.O.D. "Magnet and Steel" by Walter Egan
9/8/2015 For this 1978 soft rock tune, Fleetwood Mac's Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham sang background vocals and helped to produce the tune. Climbing to #8 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100, it was Egan's greatest hit and spent 22 weeks on the American charts. It also charted well in Canada, New Zealand and Australia and ended up at #40 On the Billboard Hot 100 Year-end chart.
Egan is a guitarist, vocalist and songwriter who began his career in 1969 and is still making music. While attending Georgetown University in Washington, DC as one of the school's first art majors, he concentrated on painting, printmaking, music, and earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree in sculpture.
In 1985 he appeared on some television game shows, Scrabble being one of them. He identified himself as a singer-songwriter and when Chuck Woolery asked if the audience would know any of his songs, he began singing the chorus from "Magnet and Steel." He was not the Scrabble champion that day. Egan was inspired by Stevie Nicks to write "Magnet and Steel".